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12th Battalion, Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment)
12th (Service) Battalion, Royal Scots was raised at Edinburgh in August 1914, as part of Kitchener's First New Army.
After initial training in the Edinburgh area they joined 27th Brigade, 9th (Scottish) Division and moved to Bordon. They proceeded to France in May 1915 and went into action in the The Battle of Loos. In 1916 they were in action in the Battle of the Somme, including the capture of Longueval, The Battle of Delville Wood and The Battle of Le Transloy. In 1917 they fought in the The First and Second Battles of the Scarpe during the Arras Offensive, The First Battle of Passchendaele and The action of Welsh Ridge. In 1918 they fought on the Somme, in the Battles of the Lys and The Advance in Flanders, capturing the Outtersteene Ridge and seeing action in in the Battle of Courtrai and the action of Ooteghem. They were resting in billets at the Armistice. 9th (Scottish) Division was selected be part of the occupation force and on the 4th of December they crossed into Germany to take up a position at the Cologne brideghead on the Rhine. In late February 1919, the original units were demobilised, being replaced by others and The Division was renamed the Lowland Division.
10th May 1915 Advance Party
11th May 1915 On the March
11th May 1915 Motor Vehicles
12th May 1915 On the Move
13th May 1915 In Billets
14th May 1915 Route March
15th May 1915 Training
15th May 1915 Concentration
15th May 1915 Report
15th May 1915 Orders
16th May 1915 On the March
16th May 1915 Orders
17th May 1915 On the March 
17th May 1915 On the March
18th May 1915 Orders Received
19th May 1915 Instruction
20th May 1915 Instruction
20th May 1915 Respirators
20th May 1915 Instruction
21st May 1915 Instruction
22nd May 1915 Boots
23rd May 1915 Church Parade
24th May 1915 Blankets
25th May 1915 Training
25th May 1915 Bombs
26th May 1915 Route March
27th May 1915 Route March
28th May 1915 Route March
29th May 1915 Inspection
29th May 1915 Inspection
30th May 1915 Church Parade
31st May 1915 Route March
31st May 1915 Instruction
1st Jun 1915 Wind Reports
2nd Jun 1915 Route March
3rd Jun 1915 Relief Completed
4th Jun 1915 Trench Work
5th Jun 1915 On the March
6th Jun 1915 On the March
7th Jun 1915 Inspection
8th Jun 1915 Thunderstorm
9th Jun 1915 Specialists
10th Jun 1915 Rain
11th Jun 1915 Training
12th Jun 1915 Training
13th Jun 1915 On the Range
14th Jun 1915 Training
15th Jun 1915 Orders
16th Jun 1915 Stand to
17th Jun 1915 Stand to
18th Jun 1915 Orders
19th Jun 1915 Training
20th Jun 1915 Church Parade
21st Jun 1915 Training
22nd Jun 1915 Training
23rd Jun 1915 Training
24th Jun 1915 Training
25th Jun 1915 On the March
26th Jun 1915 Training
27th Jun 1915 Orders
28th Jun 1915 Billets
29th Jun 1915 On the March
30th Jun 1915 Recce
1st July 1915 Reliefs Complete
2nd July 1915 Carrying Party
3rd July 1915 Working Parties
4th July 1915 Shelling.
5th July 1915 Reliefs
6th July 1915 Some Shelling
7th July 1915 Accident
8th July 1915 Very quiet day
9th July 1915 Bombardment
10th July 1915 Quiet
11th July 1915 Quiet day
12th July 1915 Shelling
13th July 1915 Orders Received
14th July 1915 Reliefs
15th July 1915 New Billets
16th July 1915 New guns.
17th July 1915
18th July 1915
19th July 1915
20th july 1915 Orders
1915-07-21 On the move
1st Sep 1915 Instructions
1st Sep 1915 Orders
2nd Sep 1915 Orders
7th Sep 1915 Observation Precautions
10th Sep 1915 Instructions
14th Sep 1915 Instructions
15th Sep 1915 Defence Scheme
17th Sep 1915 Reliefs
21st Sep 1915 Orders
25th Sep 1915 Bursting Shells
16th October 1915 Quiet day in billets.
19th Dec 1915 Gas Attack
16th May 1916 Football
8th Ju1y 1916 "A" Coy. continued digging all day,
15th Aug 1916 Reliefs
25th Sep 1916 Reliefs
16th August 1917 Gas discharged
29th August 1917 Posts
1st Jan 1918 Reliefs
3rd Jan 1918 Enemy Aircraft
4th Jan 1918 Air Raid
6th Jan 1918 Air Raid
7th Jan 1918 Quiet
7th Feb 1918
8th Jan 1918 Harassing Fire
11th Jan 1918 Prisoner
13th Jan 1918 Enemy Artillery
14th Jan 1918 Frosty
15th Jan 1918 Orders
16th Jan 1918 Poor Conditions
17th Jan 1918 Shelling
18th Jan 1918 Attack Planned
19th Jan 1918 Quiet
20th Jan 1918 Orders
21st Jan 1918 Shelling
22nd Jan 1918 Some Shelling
23rd Jan 1918 Raid
25th Jan 1918 Fog
26th Jan 1918 Prisoner
27th Jan 1918 Orders Received
28th Jan 1918 Shelling
1st Feb 1918 Foggy
2nd Feb 1918 Reliefs Complete
3rd Feb 1918 Cleaning up
4th Feb 1918 Training
5th Feb 1918 Training
6th Feb 1918 Training
8th Feb 1918 Training
9th Feb 1918 Training
10th Feb 1918 Training
11th Feb 1918 Training
12th Feb 1918 Training
13th Feb 1918 Training
14th Feb 1918 Training
15th Feb 1918 Training
16th Feb 1918 On the Move
18th Feb 1918 Inspection
19th Feb 1918 Training
20th Feb 1918 Training
21st Feb 1918 Training
14th Mar 1918 Attack Expected
23rd Mar 1918 In Action
3rd Apr 1918 In the Line
5th Apr 1918 Divison to be withdrawn
11th Apr 1918 An Officer's Diary
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Those known to have served with12th Battalion, Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment) during the Great War 1914-1918. - Bird James McArther. Cpl. (d.25th Sep 1915)
- Clark John Hood. Sjt. (d.12th Oct 1917)
- Cornwall John. (d.7th Jul 1915)
- Farr George Edward. Pte. (d.12th Oct 1917)
- Gibson D.. Pte. (d.24th Sep 1918)
- Gourley James. Pte.
- Liddell William Stewart. Pte. (d.10th May 1917)
- Mirtle Harry. Pte. (d.22nd October 1917)
- Moore Richard. Pte (d.18th Jun 1918)
- Mulligan Patrick. Pte (d.25th September 1915)
- Robertson Thomas. Pte. (d.12th Oct. 1917)
- Taylor Peter. Sgt. (d.17th Oct 1916)
- Veitch Irving Dent. L/Cpl. (d.12th October 1917)
- Veitch Irving Dent. L/Cpl. (d.12th Oct 1917)
- Watt Alexander. 2nd Lt. (d.18th of August 1918)
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2nd Lt. Alexander Watt 3rd Btn. attached 12th Btn. Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment) (d.18th of August 1918) Alexander Watt served with the 3rd Battalion, Royal Scots in WW1. At his death on 18th of August 1918 he was attached to the 12th Battalion, Royal Scots. He was 20 years old and is buried Le Peuplier Military Cemetery at Caestre inFrance. Son of John and Janet Ritchie Cameron Watt of Edinburgh.
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Pte Patrick Mulligan 12th Battalion Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment) (d.25th September 1915) Patrick Mulligan was my great great uncle. He served alongside his brother, my great grandfather, Jock Mulligan. He survived the war and went on to have a family and died in 1966.
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L/Cpl. Irving Dent Veitch 12th Btn. Royal Scots (d.12th Oct 1917) Irving Veitch served with the 12th Royal Scots.
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Pte. Harry Mirtle 12th Battalion Royal Scots (d.22nd October 1917) Harry Mirtle served with the 12th Battalion, Royal Scots.
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Pte. George Edward Farr 12th Btn. Royal Scots (d.12th Oct 1917) George Farr was my grandmother's cousin. He was born in Saddleworth in 1891. He was in 12th Battalion, Royal Scots having formerly served as private 4595, Manchester Regiment and 22175, Loyal North Lancashire Regimentt.
He was killed in action on 12th October 1917 at Passchendaele and is buried at Tyne Cot.
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Pte. William Stewart Liddell 1/12th Btn. Royal Scots (d.10th May 1917) William Stewart Liddell was born in 1894 in parish of Livingstone, Linlithgowshire (more likely to be Blackburn, West Lothian) to Robert Liddell and Mary Stewart. He was one of nine children:
Mary was born 1887,
Maggie 1889,
David 189?,
William 1894,
Robert 1896,
Henry 1898,
Thomas 1899,
Euphemia 1902 and
Jessie 1906. His will is dated 3rd April 1917 and he died 10th May 1917, aged 23 years.
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Cpl. James McArther Bird 12th Service Btn. Royal Scots (d.25th Sep 1915) James Bird enlisted on 9th September 1914 in Edinburgh (an Army reservist, with previous service of 2 years in the Royal Scots).
His detailsa re listed as Height: 5'4 1/4".
Weight: 118 lbs.
Chest: 36".
Eyes: Grey.
Hair: Black.
Girl tattoo on right forearm.
Religion: Presbyterian.
He jointed the 12th (Service) Battalion, formed at Edinburgh, in August 1914, as part of Kitchener's 1st New Army. He landed in France in May 1915 and went into action at the Battle of Loos.
On the 25th of September 1915 James was reported wounded and missing in action.
It was not until the 9th of October 1916 that it was "Accepted for offical purposes as having died on or since 25th September 1915".
Posthumously he was awarded the Great War Medal, received by his wife Agnes 11th April 1920, and the 1914-1915 Bronze Star, also received by his wife Agnes on 4th December 1920.
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Pte. D. Gibson 12th Btn. Royal Scots (d.24th Sep 1918) Private D Gibson served with the 12th Battalion Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment). He was executed for desertion on the 24th September 1918 and is buried in Mendinghem Military Cemetery in Belgium.
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Sjt. John Hood Clark 12th Btn. Royal Scots (d.12th Oct 1917) John Clark was my grand father. I don't know too much about him only that he was a son of Mr & Mrs Alexander Clark from Aberdeen and that he was killed in the Ypres salient and is remembered on the Tyne-cot Memorial in Belgium. Have I relatives of this family in Aberdeen who could tell me more, I wonder?
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Pte Richard Moore 19th Btn Northumberland Fusiliers (d.18th Jun 1918) Moore, Richard. Private, 326224, Killed on 18th June 1918. Aged 19 years.
Buried in Terlincthun British Cemetery, Wimille, Pas de Calais, in grave I. A. 35.
This Richard Moore is believed ident with Pte 19/1141 Richard Moore. This is the only Richard Moore shown on CWGC records in the 12th Royal Scots. 19th N.F. Btn history states he was attached to 12th Royal Scots and was killed with them. Also his parents home address supports this theory.
Son of Mary and the late Robert Moore, of Shieldfield, Newcastle-on-Tyne.
From the 19th Btn Northumberland Fusiliers Roll of Honour.
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