THE FIRST WORLD WAR IN OBJECTS
NO.36
The fund-raising picture of Company Sergeant Major Robert Middlemiss.
(ALL IMAGES HISTORIC MILITARY PRESS)
This portrait of Company Sergeant Major Robert Middlemiss stands testimony to one man’s sacrifice during the First World War. Born in Edinburgh in 1880, Middlemiss was the fifth son of John Middlemiss, a dairy and provision merchant, and his wife Catherine, who lived at 12 East Arthur Place, Edinburgh. Middlemiss enlisted at Edinburgh in 1898 and at the outbreak of war in 1914 was serving in the 2nd Battalion, Kings Own Scottish Borderers, then garrisoned at Lucknow in India.
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