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| When Sir George McCrae raised his battalion in Edinburgh late in November 1914, the men of Dunfermline were not slow to join with him. Two players and many folk from the town enlisted. Over a hundred men, linen workers, railwaymen and others crossed the Forth and swelled the numbers of the 16th Royal Scots battalion. Sir George had connections with that part of the world, and this probably helped the recruitment. Plumber David Izatt, who played at half back and Jimmy Morton from Albany Linen Works were the two player who enlisted. Also linen worker Lance Sergeant William Steele, found himself in the centre of the action. He was shot twice in the knee on July 1st, the first day of the Somme. He lay there till the 11th of July scavenging what he could, and with great difficulty, from the bodies of those around him. |
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