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Private William MacPherson, born Inverness-shire, Scotland; served during the Great War with the 2nd Battalion Seaforth Highlanders on the Western Front, from 23.8.1914;
He was killed in action 21.4.1917, in the Balkans theatre of war, on the latter date his battalion were engaged for the battle of Istabulat.
His obituary from The Inverness Courier, 11.5.1917, gives the following,
´´Pte William MacPherson, Seaforth Highlanders, who is reported killed in action on April 21, had seen fighting in India 1906-07 during a tribal rising. In the present War he was in the retreat from Mons and was wounded at Ypres in April 1915. He returned to France in October 1915, and from France he went to the Persian Gulf, where he was wounded in January. Again recovering in an Indian Hospital, he went back to the Persian Gulf, to recieve as it proved, his fatal wound. Pte MacPherson was 38 years of age. An elder brother is with the Cameron Highlanders in France. There mother resides at No.1 Lochalsh Road, Inverness.´´
He is commemorated on the Basra Memorial, Iraq.
Above, William's medal group India General Service 1908-35, clasp, North West Frontier 1908; 1914 Star, with Bar; British War and Victory Medals
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