My family, like so many others at the time of the Great War, lost loved ones who died far from home and in terrible conditions.
My great-uncle Angus, one of a family of nine comprising eight brothers and one sister, enlisted in November 1914 in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders.
After much fighting, his talents as a machine gunner were recognised by officers who were setting up the newly formed Machine Gun Corps Heavy Branch, Tank Corps, and he was transferred to this unit in December 1916.