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James Turnbull MM.
British Army 250th Brigade Royal Field Artillery
from:Hawick, Roxburghshire
My grandfather James Turnbull served with the 250th (Northumbria) Brigade, Royal Field Artillery. He was transferred after being wounded at Loos with the Cameron Highlanders and was mentioned in despatches July 1918 and awarded the Military Medal after the Sambre in 1918, I am not sure in which offensive yet.
Thankfully he survived the war and went on to marry my grandmother and start a local engineering company. He was born in Hawick 1884 and died in Hawick 1958
Sadly I never knew him, but relatives say he didn't speak about his experiences like many other survivors and had regular nightmares throughout the rest of his life, but he went on to have a fulfilled life and a family.

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