VLAMERTINGHE NEW MILITARY CEMETERY
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Private Edward Delargey,
1st/8th Battalion, Royal Scots, executed for desertion, 06/09/1917 Headstone bears inscription “He died that we might live, Gone but not forgotten.” Private Delargey was a young conscript being called up in 1916. On the 18th July 1916 he was sentenced to 112 days detention the offence being in the United Kingdom as he did not join the Battalion in France until January 1917. The Battalion was the Pioneer battalion in 51 (Highland) Division. In January the Battalion was engaged in construction work on the old Somme battlefields, building roads, tramways, dugouts and shelters, working at a sawmill and on wiring. For the last two weeks of January the Battalion was in rest and then in February moved to the Arras front where again the work was in building roads and repairing trenches; frost hampered the work but Private Delargey spent one week in a field ambulance! On 15 February shortly after his discharge he was given a pass to a village 2 miles away whereupon he disappeared remaining absent until 6 August when he was arrested some 10 miles from Arras. The Court Martial sentenced him to death and this was confirmed on the 24th August 1917 he being executed on the 6th September 1917, aged 19 years. |
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