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Harry Heggie   Gordon Highlanders

DUNDEE GORDON MISSING.

Can any one give Mrs Heggie, 7 Ure Street, Dundee, any information as to the whereabouts of her son, Private Harry Heggie, of the 1st Battalion Gordon Highlanders?

Mrs Heggie has received intimation that her son went missing on 26th August.  Private Heggie, who is 24 years of age, served in his regiment a little over a year, and was formerly employed in Dundee as an insurance agent.  Before he joined the Gordons Private Heggie was six years in the 4th Battalion Black Watch Territorials.

Dundee Courier 16th October 1914

DUNDEE GORDON PRISONER IN GERMANY

WRITES FOR TREACLE, CIGARETTES, AND CHOCOLATE.

Private Harry Heggie of the 1st Battalion Gordon Highlanders, who was reported to have been missing on 26th August, is now a prisoner of war in Germany.

This news, which brought no little relief to his anxious relatives, was received by his parents, who reside at 7 Ure Street, Dundee.

One of Heggie’s comrades writing from the Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh, to Mrs Heggie, states that the brave Dundee Gordon was made a prisoner at Cambrai.  There were between ten and twenty of A Company taken that day.  Following this Mrs Heggie received a very welcome letter from her son from Sennelager, Germany, in which he says that the prisoners are now allowed to receive parcels.  He says—” If you do send anything to me, you might send a tin of treacle and some cigarettes—as many as you can.  You may make up the rest with some of yon thick hard chocolate and anything else you may think about.

“Cheer up and be brave.” he continues, “as I hope that we may all soon be together again.  I suppose you know I am a prisoner of war.”   Private Heggie is 24 years of age, and has been a Gordon for fully a year.

Dundee Courier 28th October 1914