10th Battalion, Black Watch

   10th Battalion, The Black Watch was raised at Perth on the 13th of September 1914 as part of Kitchener's Third New Army, they joined 77th Brigade, 26th Division. The units of the new division began to to assemble in the Salisbury Plain area from September 1914. Training was much improvised as equipment and Khaki uniforms were not available until early spring 1915. The 10th Black Watch spent the winter in billets in Bristol and trained at Sutton Veny. They proceeded to France, landing at Boulogne on the 20th of September 1915, the division concentrated at Guignemicourt to the west of Amiens. In November 1915 26th Division moved to Salonika via Marseilles. On the 26th of December they moved from Lembet to Happy Valley Camp. In 1916 hey were in action in the Battle of Horseshoe Hill in 1917 the fought in the First and Second Battles of Doiran. In July 1918 some units of the Division, including the 10th Black Watch moved back to France. On the 21st of July they joined 197th Brigade, 66th (2nd East Lancashire) Division. On the 15th of October the 10th Black Watch was disbanded in France.

12th of October 1915 77th Brigade Arrives

13th of October 1915 Reliefs

14th of October 1915 Germans Explode Mine

17th of October 1915 Reliefs

18th of October 1915 Noisy Germans

25th of October 1915 German Mine Exploded

27th of October 1915 German Work Destroyed

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Blyth William. Pte.
Brown A.. Pte. (d.1st Jun 1917)
Curran MM. John. Sgt.
Owen Frank. Pte. (d.5th Nov 1916)
Sloan Edward. Pte. (d.9th May 1917)
Sloan Edward. Pte. (d.8th May 1917)
Turner William. Pte. (d.9th May 1917)

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Pte. William Blyth 10th Battalion Black Watch

Bill Blyth ran away from home to join the Army in 1914 giving his age as 21 when in fact he was only 17 years old. He was born in 1897 in Manuel, Dumbartonshire, Scotland where his father was the station master.
By August 1916 he had been with the Field Force for 11 months. He received a gunshot wound to the upper, right thigh on 3rd of August 1916 and was subsequently transferred to the Hospital ship SS Galeka. Two weeks later on 18th of August 1916 he was transferred from the hospital ship to the Ambulance Train Depot.
He fought with the 10th Battalion, Black Watch in Mesopotamia, Palestine and Macedonia. He was gassed with mustard gas in Flanders during the Battles of Passchendaele (Third Battle of Ypres) between July and November 1917.
His mother died in 1911 and his father died in 1918 before he arrived home. His brother younger brother Andrew was a master mariner in the Merchant Navy and also fought in WWI.
Bill departed London on 2nd of July 1920 on the steamship Themistocles with his 3 sisters Jane (aka Jean, a school teacher aged 34), Janet (a clerk aged 30) and Alison (aka Dulcie, a tracer aged 19) to migrate to Australia. Following a 40 day trip they arrived in Brisbane, Australia in August 1920. He never saw his homeland again. He married Freda Marjinetta Hammond in Melbourne, Australia in 1929. He built a new house in Box Hill in 1929 in time for his November marriage to Freda Marjinetta Hammond, where he resided for the remainder of his life. Bill and Freda had one daughter, Margaret Ann in 1937. Bill worked as an accountant for Email & met up regularly with (Sir)Frank Packer (& reportedly also (Sir)Ian Potter) to discuss investments and the share market. He must have experienced some heavy losses as Margaret's school fees at PLC (Presbyterian Ladies College) in Melbourne were paid by a benefactor; anecdotally reported to have been (Sir) Frank Packer. Andrew migrated to Australia with his family after WWII and settled in Melbourne.
Bill suffered with Petit Mal (a mild form of epilepsy) and died at the age of age 64 of aplastic anaemia which doctors attributed to his exposure to mustard gas during the war. He was cremated and is buried at Springvale Botanical Cemetery He was a shy, quite man.
Diane Wood

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Pte. Edward "Jack" Sloan 10th Btn. Black Watch (d.9th May 1917)

My great uncle Edward Sloan died during the Battle of Doiran on 9th of May 1917 aged 19. His brother Thomas died on 16th May 1917 in the Battle of Arras aged 22.

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Pte. A. Brown 10th Btn. Black Watch (d.1st Jun 1917)

Private A Brown served with the 10th Battalion, the Black Watch during WW1. He was executed for desertion on the 1st June 1917 and is buried in the Karasouli Military Cemetery in Greece.
S Flynn

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