MY COUNTRY RIGHT OR WRONG

LANCE CORPORAL ARCHIE FERGUSON

ARGYLL AND SUTHERLAND HIGHLANDERS

13TH NOVEMBER 1916 AGE 19

BURIED: MAILLY WOOD CEMETERY, MAILLY-MAILLET, FRANCE


This unquestioning allegiance to country has completely gone out of fashion. However, it wasn't common at this period either, and when you read what the Senator for Wisconsin, Carl Schurz, actually said in 1872 then you can see that it wasn't what he meant anyway: "My country right or wrong; if right to be kept right; and if wrong to be put right".