HIS LAST MESSAGE
"I AM ALL RIGHT
KEEP CHEERY AND BRIGHT"

SECOND LIEUTENANT WILLIAM HAY

CAMERONIANS ATTACHED ROYAL SCOTS FUSILIERS

1ST APRIL 1916 AGE 20

BURIED: LIJSSENTHOEK MILITARY CEMETERY, BELGIUM


Lieutenant Hay was wounded on 27 March when the First Battalion Royal Scots Fusiliers were heavily involved in an action around the St Eloi craters. He was well enough to send his parents this encouraging message but four days later he was dead.