13th Battalion, Royal Scots

13th Bn (New Army)formed at Edinburgh - 45th Bde, 15th (Scottish) Div
July 1915 15TH (SCOTTISH) DIV ORDERED TO FRANCE

25/9/1915 -8/10/1915 - LOOS - 15TH (SCOTTISH) DIV (CAS: 60%)
26/9/1915 - Private Robert Dunsire awarded the V.C. - "On 26 September 1915on Hill 70, France, Private Dunsire went out under very heavy fire and rescued a wounded man from between the firing lines. Later another man,considerably nearer the German lines, was heard shouting for help and Private Dunsire crawled out again, with complete disregard for the enemy and carried the wounded man in. Shortly afterwards the Germans attacked over this ground." - k.i.a. at Mazingarbe, France (30 Jan 1916)

12/1915-1/1916 - 15TH (SCOTTISH) DIV HOLDING THE LINE AT HOHENZOLLERN AND HULLUCH
8/8/1916-22/9/1916 - POZIÈRES, FLERS COURCELETTE - 15TH (SCOTTISH) DIV
9/4/1917-4/5/1917 - ARRAS - 15TH (SCOTTISH) DIV (CAS: 6.313)

9/4/1917-12/4/1917 - 1ST SCARPE - 15TH (SCOTTISH) DIV WITH 44TH AND 45TH BDE IN FRONT
9/4/1917 - taking Blangy and 38 prisoners - "protected by three lines of enemy trenches and a strongpoint defended by machine guns. --- a mine was placed beneath, {but} too much explosive had been used. The blast not only destroyed the strongpoint but stunned the first wave of Royal Scots forming up in no-man's-land, and some were buried by falling debris." (Nicholls)
11/4/1917 - 15TH (SCOTTISH) DIV SUPPORTING 37TH DIV'S ATTACK ON MONCHY
23/4/1917-14/4/1917 - 2ND SCARPE - 15TH (SCOTTISH) DIV TAKING OVER 2.000 PRISONERS AT GUEMAPPE

31/7/1917-2/8/1917 - PILCKEM - 15TH (SCOTTISH) DIV ADVANCING 2.000 YARDS
hard fighting around Beck House
22/8/1917advancing up Frezenberg Ridge - trying to capture Beck House

21/3/1918 - 'ST MICHAEL' - 15TH (SCOTTISH) DIV HOLDING THE LINE IN FRONT OF ARRAS
(THIRD ARMY LEFT WING WITH 4TH DIV) - NOT IN ACTION
21/8/1918-28/8/1918 - 1ST SOMME (1ST ARRAS) - 15TH (SCOTTISH) DIV HEAVY CASUALTIES
July 1918- 15TH (SCOTTISH) DIV MOVING TO ÉPERNAY SECTOR ON THE MARNE
October 1918- 15TH (SCOTTISH) DIV - FINAL ADVANCE AT LOOS AND HULLUCH
11/11/1918 ARMISTICE