34 - RECORDS OF THE MEN OF LOCHBROOM
1916
SERGT, ALICK MACKASKILL,
9th Seaforths.
Aged 32
Only son of Mr. Donald Mackaskill, late of Locbroom.
Missing at the Battle of the Somme |
Sept. 1916 |
βHe writes in characters too grand
For our short sight to understand.
We catch but broken strokes, and try T
o fathom all the mystery
Of withered hopes, of death, of life,
The endless war, the useless strife,
But there with larger, clearer sight,
We shall see this His Way was Right.β
β John Oxenham
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