A Whittingehame - Papple - Tranent interest 'Killed-in-Action' First Day Battle of Loos - Scotland's Bloodiest Battle - medal group of 3: Corporal David Stoddart 7th (Service) Battalion Seaforth Highlanders

- 1914-15 Star (S-3029 L.Cpl D. Stoddart. Sea: Highrs)
- British War Medal. Silver issue (S-3029 Cpl. S. Stoddart. Sea. Highrs.)
- Interallied Victory Medal (S-3029 Cpl. S. Stoddart. Sea. Highrs.)

Killed-in-Action: Corporal David Stoddart 7th (Service) Battalion Seaforth Highlanders is confirmed 'Killed-in-Action' at the 'Battle of Loos', France, on 25 September 1915. Scotland's 'Bloodiest Ever Day of Warfare'

The body of David Stoddart was never recovered from the battlefield, but his life and supreme sacrifice is commemorated in perpetuity by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission on a regimental panel at the Loos Memorial located in the Pas de Calais region France

In his native Scotland, the name David Stoddart is inscribed on the War Memorial of the Parish of Whittingehame, East Lothian

The Whittingehame War Memorial has Only 12 x names of the fallen of the parish who lost their lives during the Great War (a further single name commemorates the fallen of the Second World War)

The Whittingehame War Memorial was unveiled on 16 October 1921, by no less a personality than the most famous 'son of Whittingehame' viz Arthur James Balfour, then Foreign Secretary and former Prime Minister of Britain 1902-1906

Medals Verification: All of the three x Great War Medals confirmed as entitled, per the below following cited medal rolls:

- 1914-15 Star: WO 329/2799. Shows that David Stoddart disembarked France 10/05/15 with entry Killed-in-Action
- British War Medal. Silver issue: WO 329/1644, shows served with 7/Seaforth
- Interallied Victory Medal: WO 329/1644, shows served with 7/Seaforth

The recipients biographical and service details were published in Volume II of De Ruvigny's Roll of Honour, 1914-1919, as under:

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STODDART, DAVID., Corpl. No. 3029. 7th (Service) Battn. Seaforth Highlanders. 3rd s. of James Stoddart, of Papple, Prestonkirk, East Lothian, Farm Servant, by his wife Elizabeth, dau. of the late Alexander Baillie of Blegbie; b. Tranent, Mains, East Lothian, 20 Oct, 1887; educ. Spott School, Dunbar; was a Gardener, Ruchlaw, Stenten; enlisted, 1 Sept 1914; went to France on or about 10 May, 1915, and was killed in action at the Battle of Loos, 25 Sept. following; unm

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Condition: BWM black toned the group about EF

Code: 24951