Casualty 1915 Trio. Stoddarrt. Seaforth Highlanders. Killed Day 1, Battle of Loos September 1915. Papple, Prestonkirk.

1915 Star correctly named S-3029 L Cpl D Stoddart Sea Highrs
Pair correctly named S-3029 Cpl D Stoddart Sea Highrs

Killed-in-Action: Corporal David Stoddart 7th (Service) Battalion Seaforth Highlanders is confirmed ‘Killed-in-Action’ at the ‘Battle of Loos’, France, on 25 September 1915. Scotland’s ‘Bloodiest Ever Day of Warfare’

The body of David Stoddart was never recovered from the battlefield, but his life and supreme sacrifice is commemorated in perpetuity by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission on a regimental panel at the Loos Memorial located in the Pas de Calais region France

In his native Scotland, the name David Stoddart is inscribed on the War Memorial of the Parish of Whittingehame, East Lothian.

No. 3029. 7th (Service) Battalion. Seaforth Highlanders. 3rd on of James Stoddart, of Papple, Prestonkirk, East Lothian, Farm Servant, by his wife Elizabeth. 20 Oct, 1887; Educated at Spott School, Dunbar; was a Gardener, Ruchlaw, Stenten;

Enlisted, 1 Sept 1914; went to France on or about 10 May, 1915, and was killed in action at the Battle of Loos, 25 Sept.

Battle of Loos:

The Battle of Loos took place from 25 September to 8 October 1915 in France on the Western Front, during the First World War. It was the biggest British attack of 1915, the first time that the British used gas as a weapon and the first mass engagement of New Army divisions. The French and British tried to break through the German defences in Artois in the north and Champagne at the south end of the Noyon Salient to restore a war of movement.