8041 Pte John Finlayson, 1st Cameron Highlanders
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.