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SECOND-LIEUTENANT R.W. POTTS, MACHINE GUN CORPS
1914-15 Star (250392 Pte. R.Scots.); British War Medal; Victory Medal 1914-19 (2. Lieut.) - (ROBERT WILLIAM POTTS : Born 1894 the youngest son of Mr Thomas James and Mrs Margaret Nicholson Potts of 21 Upper Gray Street, Edinburgh : Attended George Heriot's School, Edinburgh 1907-12, where he excelled at sport and played rugby for the school first fifteen. Member of the school Officer Cadet Corps 1910-12 : Apprentice architect, student RIBA. : In October 1914 he attested for 5th.Battalion, Royal Scots and entered the war in the Balkans (Gallipoli) with 1st./5th.Battalion, Royal Scots on 25 April 1915 (The First Day of the Landings) : Invalided home to Scotland. Transferred to Machine Gun Corps as a Cadet: Granted Commission as Second-Lieutenant March 1917 and joined the 25th. Battalion in France from July 1917 : SEVERELY WOUNDED IN ACTION infront of Bapaume on 23 March 1918 and DIED OF HIS WOUNDS the following day. He was buried in Dernancourt Communal Cemetery Extension.). Sold with verication, copy Battalion War Diary entries, copy 'Officers Died' entry, copy CWGC. information, copy entry from 'George Heriot's School Roll of Honour 1914-1919', which includes a small portrait photograph of the recipient. EF - £495