Historic Records Men of 1914

  Arrived overseas: 14 August 1914. Connection: Postcard. John Finlayson stands in the back row, fifth from left. He was born in Broadford, Inverness in 1889 and he enlisted with the Cameron Highlanders at Greenock, Renfrewshire - his place of residence - in 1907. He arrived in France on the 14th August 1914 and died of wounds a little over a month later on the 17th September 1914. He is buried in Villers-en-Prayeres communal cemetery in France.

Arrived overseas: 14 August 1914. Connection: Postcard. David Lumsden is one of several Cameron Highlanders who I have identified as having served overseas in 1914, and I shall get to the others in due course. In this undated postcard photograph - which probably dates to about 1913 -  he is seated on the front row, second from the left. He was born in 1892 and enlisted in 1909, arriving overseas in France on the 14th August 1914. He had certainly become a casualty by October 1914 as he was reported to have been admitted to the 4th Northern General Hospital at Lincoln on the 6th of that month. David Lumsden, who hailed from Balvaird, Muir of Ord, Ross-shire, subsequently transferred to the Seaforth Highlanders (regimental number S/14604) and ended the war as a sergeant with the 1st Garrison Battalion. He was discharged from the army in 1919 suffering from malaria and orchitis, and appears to have been in receipt of a pension until at least 1927.