WW1 British War & Victory Medals Pair to Piper Robert Watt, Seaforth Highlanders

British War Medal 1914-18 and Victory Medals
2860 Pte R Watt, Seaforth
Served as a piper with the 9th Battalion Seaforth Highlanders listed as wounded
Pipers of the 9th Battalion Seaforth Highlanders were frequently employed as despatch runners, In the advance of the 26th Brigade at Longueval on 14th July 1916, the battalion was played into action under very heavy fire. When attacking the village they met with stout resistance and came under heavy machine gun fire from a flank as well as from the front. The pipers rallied the men who were thrown momentarily into confusuin, and at their head, charged down the street and over the wires into the German trenches. The Casualties were heavy 4 Killed and 15 wounded.
Robert was born at Mains of Glenbucket, March 1880. employed in Morayshire as a farm servant. Son of Robert and Ellen Dunbar Watt of Glenbucket
Together with Medal Index Card , Details from Pipes of War and Morayshire Roll of Honour

Code: 56311