OH BERTIE DARLING
HOW WE MISS YOU

PRIVATE DONALD ROBERT ROSS THOMSON

SEAFORTH HIGHLANDERS

18TH APRIL 1918 AGE 19

BURIED: CHOCQUES MILITARY CEMETERY, FRANCE


Nineteen-year-old Donald Robert Ross Thomson, 'Bertie', was the seventh of ten children of Donald and Margaret Thomson, of Govanhill, Glasgow. There were twenty years between the children. Bertie died of wounds in a Casualty Clearing Station at Bethune. It was his mother who confirmed his inscription on the War Grave Commission's form - a touching lament for her lost child.