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Sgt. Robert Curley MM,
British Army 11th Battalion Royal Scots
from:Glasgow
My grandfather, Robert Curley of Glasgow, joined the 11th Battalion, Royal Scots in October 1914 aged 16 or 17. He was demobbed in early 1919 as a sergeant and holder of the Military Medal.
I have attached a copy of some photographs and documents that I have recently found among some of my late mother's papers. It shows a fresh faced youth when he joined up, a picture from winter 1916 with a goatskin jacket just marked "somewhere in France" and as a sergeant just before he was demobbed. The latter picture could be the father of the lad that joined up, such he has aged after 4 years in the trenches. He was wounded while a L/Cpl in 1917. Also attached copies of the letter that arrived with his Bronze Star and Military Medal and the letter sent to his father to advise that he was wounded. I would like to know where he may have served, all I know for certain was it was on the Western Front.
