IGS bar NWF 1908 To the Seaforth Highlanders , KIA

IGS bar 1908 9081 PTE P MILNE 1ST BN SEA HIGHRS

Peter Milne , Born Inverness. Enlisted Edinburgh , Killed in action 25th April 1915 , buried in grave B1 Seaforth cemetery , Cheddar Villa , Belgium

At 5.30 on the morning of 25th April a further British counterattack was ordered to retake Kitchener’s Wood, a little way to the north west of where Seaforth Cemetery now stands, and to force the Germans out of St. Julien. The Germans had spent the night improving their defences and the attack was a failure; the men of the Seaforths, alongside eight Royal Warwicks, eighteen Northumberland Fusiliers, eight Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders, one Royal Irish Fusilier and one Canadian infantryman, who now lie in this cemetery, were just some of the victims of the German machine gunners and artillery that day, or the following day, as fierce fighting continued in this area for much of the next week.

Although it would be a further month before the Second Battle of Ypres officially ended, by which time the British salient around Ypres would have shrunk considerably, the city itself remained in British hands, the Germans’ first use of gas having failed to achieve the breakthrough they had hoped for

Medal in VF condition

Code: 51038