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14th (Fife and Forfar Yeomanry) Battalion, Black Watch
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Those known to have served with14th (Fife and Forfar Yeomanry) Battalion, Black Watch during the Great War 1914-1918. - Campbell David Kenn. Pte.
- Davidson James. Pte. (d.10th Sep 1918)
- Husband William. L/Cpl. (d.2nd September 1918)
- Izatt M.M. Richard. A/Cpl. (d.22nd Oct 1918)
- Keith John Wallace. Pte. (d.2nd Sept 1918)
- Keith John. Pte. (d.2nd September 1918)
- Okey John. Pte. (d.10th Sep 1918)
- Waller Thomas. Pte. (d.23rd October 1918)
- Webb Andrew. Private (d.23rd Oct 1918)
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Pte. John Keith 14th Btn. (Fife and Forfar Yeomanry) Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) (d.2nd September 1918)  John Wallace Keith b. 5/6/1896 in Ladybank, Fife, Scotland was the son of Robert and Jane Wallace Keith. John was unmarried and working in the ticket office of Kirkcaldy Railway Station at the time he enlisted in the Fife & Forfar Yeomanry (the Black Watch). His first posting was to Egypt, but dysentery caused him to be shipped home to recover. He returned to the war in France and was killed in an action in the fields around the village of Moislain, Somme on 2/9/1918. Those killed in the same action were buried in Moislains but at the end of the war re-interred at the Peronne Communal Cemetery Extension.
John's name is shown on war memorials in Ladybank and Giffardtown, Fife and on the Railworkers National Memorial inside Edinburgh's Waverley Station. The Books of Remembrance at Edinburgh Castle show 'no known grave' but in 2001, thanks to the Commonwealth War Grave website, his burial site at Peronne was finally found. The next Spring our family, including his nephew Robert, travelled to France to honour him, placing a Saltire and British Legion cross on the grave.
The cemetery at Peronne is quiet and beautifully maintained - more a tranquil garden than a 'foreign field'.
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L/Cpl. William Husband 14th (Fife and Forfar Yeomanry) Btn. Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) (d.2nd September 1918) William Husband died on 2nd September 1918, aged 20 and is buried in the Peronne Communal Cemetery Extension in France.
He was the sSon of the late William Husband and of Barbara Husband, of 78 North St., St. Andrews. Fife.
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Pte. James Davidson 14th (Fife & Forfar Yeomanry) Btn. Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) (d.10th Sep 1918) James Davidson, my uncle, is buried at St.Emilie Valley Cemetery, Villers-Faucon, France.
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A/Cpl. Richard Izatt M.M. 14th (Fife & Forfar Yeomanry) Btn. Black Watch (d.22nd Oct 1918) Richard Izatt joined the Army in 1902. During his service career he had been a deserter, had malaria 5 times, scabies and defective teeth.
He was invalided out of the army (a Silver War Badge had been awarded,) but he then re-enlisted for the Great War.
It was during this war that Richard was awarded the Military Medal.
Richard was killed in action in Belgium on the 22nd of October 1918.
He is buried in Orcq, Belgium.
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Pte. John Wallace Keith 14th (Fife and Forfar Yeomanry) Btn. Black Watch (d.2nd Sept 1918) My Grandmother's youngest brother, John, worked in the ticket office of Kirkcaldy Railway Station and either enlisted or was called up in 1916 aged 20. He was first sent to Egypt but after a bout of dysentry was sent back home to recuperate. John returned to France but was killed on the Somme at the village of Moislains, 2nd September 1918, aged 22. Three officers and 37 other ranks died in the same action.
John Keith is commemorated on the War Memorials in his home town of Ladybank and in nearby Giffardtown also in Fife, also on the National Railworkers Memorial in Waverley Station, Edinburgh. The Keith family never knew where John was buried, the Books of Remembrance inside Edinburgh Castle show 'no known grave'. However, many years after his parents and siblings had died, the Commonwealth War Graves website put full details of WW1 casualties online and the final resting place of John Wallace Keith was found to be the Communal Cemetery in Peronne. Surviving members of his family have visited the site and say it is a quite beautiful place. RIP John
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