El Alamein War Cemetery, Egypt. John Adamson occupation coal miner died 30 th June Children Charlotte, Margaret, David, John. No death for Charlotte has been found in Scotland. James Adamson. If all the world was ours to give.
We would give it. To see the face of the one we loved Come smiling round the door. A remembrance of one we shall always keep: Hard was the blow that compelled to part from the son so near and dear to our heart.
Less than thirty members of the old 1st Battalion were available, but it was rebuilt and joined by the 5th and 7th Battalions which had not yet gone overseas. The desert offensive of the previous year had failed to remove the Germans from North Africa, and now Rommel was again advancing against Egypt.
All three Black Watch battalions were in the van of the opening attack 7th Battalion in Brigade with the 1st Battalion , advancing close behind the barrage through wire and minefields and in the face of machine gun and rifle fire.
By dawn next day all their first objectives had been secured, albeit with heavy casualties. The brigade was withdrawn from the front on 3 November and for the next five weeks was part of the force pursuing the retreating Germans beyond Benghazi and Tobruk but not in direct contact with them until 8 December at the village of Mersa Brega on the coastal road.
