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Re: Medal card for Private Alexander G. McGregor (Help)
« Reply #18 on: Tuesday 25 December 18 19:15 GMT (UK) »
Found a book specifically about the 18th Battalion which states in the product description:

‘At times they fought back the Germans with only their picks and shovels, and in High Wood, at the height of the Battle of the Somme, they were deployed to fight the enemy at bayonet point.’

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Miners-Pals-Battalion-War-Middlesex/dp/1784620343/ref=mp_s_a_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1545765239&sr=8-2&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&keywords=18th+battalion+middlesex&dpPl=1&dpID=51UDPfBsjQL&ref=plSrch
Lipman family of Aldgate - ends with Lewis Lipman (d. 1871, Bethnal Green), son of John Lipman 'late of Glasgow' (1856)
McGregor family of Fodderty - ends with Alexander McGregor (b. 1765, Fodderty), son of Murdoch McGregor and Kate Stewart
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