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Gordon Gavin   King’s Own Scottish Borderers

WOUNDED AT THE DARDANELLES.

Drummer Gordon Gavin, of the King’s Own Scottish Borderers, has been wounded in the operations at the Dardanelles.  Writing to his mother, who lives at 23 Kinloch Street, Dundee, he states that he was wounded in the foot and the back, and that he had been taken on board a warship bound for hospital.  “God must have been with me,” says Drummer Gavin, “during the three days I was in the thickest of it.  I tell you I had a lively time, but I got my revenge all right.  I think it was a bayonet wound I had in my back, but never mind.  The battle out here, just finished, to protect our bonnie country was worse than Mons and Ypres put together, but we have our revenge.  I am not so bad as some of the others.”

Drummer Gavin, who is 24 years of age, has been in the Borderers for five years, and came to England with the Indian Expeditionary Force.  His brother, Private Harry Gavin, belongs to the same regiment, in which he had served seven years, and was also in India when the war broke out.  He is 28 years of age, while the youngest brother, Private James Guthrie Gavin, has been in the Highland Light Infantry for two years.  Before enlistment all three brothers were warehousemen in the employment of Malcolm Bros., Commercial Street.

Dundee Courier 20th May 1915