Cut down weeks after return to the Front

A 19-year-old Cambusbarron soldier was killed in action two weeks after returning to the Front following treatment for a poisoned foot.

Pt David Macnamara was the youngest son of Mr David Macnamara who lived with his daughter, Mrs Douglas, at 12 Hayford Square.

He joined the Army in February of 1917 and went into the Cameron Highlanders before transfer to the Seaforth Highlanders.

Pte Macnamara went to France in January, 1918, before being sent back to Britain after suffering a poisoned foot. He returned to the frontline in May, 1918, and was killed on the 31st of that month.

Before joining the Army, he was employed at the Naval Base at Inverkeithing.

A second soldier to make the ultimate sacrifice was Sapper S Rennie, Royal Engineers, who died of wounds sustained in action on June 4, 1918. Information concerning his death was sent to his wife who lived at the prison quarters, Perth.

Sapper Rennie enlisted two years earlier and had been in France for a year.

A joiner to trade, he worked with Mr Thomas Ferguson, Stirling, before taking up employment in Glasgow.

Before enlisting, the 30-yearold was a warder at Perth Prison. He was the only son of Mr and Mrs David Rennie , Muirton farm, and brother of Mrs James McIndoe, 1 Gowanbank, Stirling. He left a widow and young child.