Remembering the forty two Kelso men who fell in a single days action at Gallipoli

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Unveiled 100th years after the event in the small Scottish Borders town of Kelso where 42 men from the town fell in a single day when the local Territorial unit 1/4th Battalion Kings Own Scottish Borderer's 12th July 1915 in the attack on Achi Baba Nullah, Gallipoli. This fateful attack was known as " The Black Day of the Borders" because so many Border men were lost in what became known as the " The Charge " The battalion lost 12 Officers killed and 6 wounded with 319 Other ranks killed and 203 wounded. And on Sunday, exactly 100 years to the day of the attack, a special tribute was unveiled to the 42 soldiers from the Kelso area who were among the Gallipoli dead on July 12, 1915. Coinciding with the start of Kelso's Civic Week, the event saw a large respectful crowd gather at Kelso’s war memorial for the unveiling of a new memorial tablet bearing the names of the 42 men. The tablet was unveiled by this year’s Kelso Laddie Fraser Hastie and James Sanderson - the latter the grandson of one of the soldiers being honoured.

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Size: 3183px × 4551px
Location: kelso, roxburghshire, scottish borders, scotland, united kingdom,
Photo credit: © James R Gibson / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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Keywords: 1, 1/4th, battalion, cross, crosses, cwcg, gallipoli, gibson, gisphotographic, headstone, jim, kelso, kosb, memorial, poppy, war, world, wreath