Brothers in Arms
Angus Murch
Angus was born in 1894. There is a death record in the First World War for an A. Murch (5 September 1916, Somme, France), Serjeant in the Gordon Highlanders, number 385. How sad - his younger brother Livingstone was drowned on HMS Flirt and it says his brother was notified - but Angus had died six weeks earlier...
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Livingstone Murch
Livingstone MURCH was born to Ebenezer MURCH and his wife, Sarah, on 9 April 1895 in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland, the youngest of seven children. A local junior swimming champion, it seems only natural, then, that he should sign up for the Navy! He was drowned three days before his 21st birthday in 1916; his ship was sunk in the Dover Barrage.
23 September 2014: Angus and Livingstone's names were read out on the 'Roll of Honour' for 'The Tower Remembers'.
Reader: Yeoman Warder Rob Fuller
Last Post: Drummer McKenna
Then came the verse from the poem by Laurence Binyan 'For the Fallen':
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
Then the Last Post was played.