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Sgt. David Finlay VC.
British Army 2nd Btn. Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)
(d.21st Jan 1916)
Sergeant David Finlay served with the 2nd Battalion the Black Watch during WW1 and died, age 23, on the 21st January 1916. He is remembered on the Basra War Memorial in Iraq. He was the husband of Mrs. F. Finlay (later Mrs. Wilson), of The Anchorage, St. Abb's, Coldingham, Berwickshire.
An extract from the London Gazette, dated 29th June, 1915, records the following:- For most conspicuous bravery and devotion to duty on 9th May, 1915, near Rue du Bois, when he led a bombing party of twelve men with the greatest gallantry in the attack until ten of them had fallen. Lance-Corporal Finlay then ordered the two survivors to crawl back, and he himself went to the assistance of a wounded man and carried him over a distance of 100 yards of fire-swept ground into cover, quite regardless of his own personal safety.
