🌺 “An 18-Year-Old Gordon Highlander Who Fought on the Somme” — The Story of Private William Dawson Robbie 🌺 William Dawson Robbie was born in 1898 at Upper Park, Drumoak, Aberdeenshire — one of several children of John and Mary Ann Robbie, part of a close village community where everyone knew the Robbie family. He grew up among quiet fields, familiar faces, and the steady rhythms of rural life. When war arrived in 1914, William was still only fifteen. Too young to enlist, but old enough to fee

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