HOW SERGEANT SEATH FELL - In the Parish Church Magazine for November the story is told of how Sergt. David Seath, of the Cameron Highlanders, fell in action.

His Commanding Officer, Capt. H C Methuen, writes of the way in which he met his death. He says :-

On September 3rd the Battalion went into action just East of High Wood. A Coy were on the right of the line; Sergt. Seath's platoon formed the right of the Company's line in the attack. The extreme right was held up by rifle and machine gun fire, and did not reach the enemy trench; while Sergt Seath and some of his platoon were lying out in shell holes for some time, and later on these men withdrew to the front line trench they had started from.

Sergt Seath stood on the firing step directing and helping in wounded men into the trench, and whilst doing this was sniped through the head, being instantly killed.

He was buried some 500 yards behind the front line.

Sergt Seath was a NCO in my Company for some time, and a very good and brave man he was. He is a great loss to the Company, and I hope you will convey to his wife my great appreciation of her husband and my great regret and sympathy at his death in action.

H C Methuen, Captain O.C. A, Company               Midlothian Advertiser, 24th November, 1916