Jimmy Speirs: Difference between revisions

At the end of the [[1914-15 in English football|1914–15]] season, Speirs returned to his native Glasgow and enlisted in the [[Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders]] on 17 May 1915.<ref name="markham"/><ref name="highlanders">{{cite web|url=http://jimmy-speirs.co.uk/13005.html|title=Cameron Highlanders|accessdate=4 July 2008|publisher=jimmyspeirs.co.uk}}</ref> [[Conscription]] was a year away, from which Speirs would have been exempt because he was married with two young children. Private S/18170 Speirs was posted to the regiment's headquarters in Inverness where he joined the 3rd Battalion, a reserve battalion, for training.<ref name="highlanders"/> He was appointed to the position of [[Lance Corporal]] while on training, and after the British troops suffered heavy casualties, Speirs was posted overseas on 29 May 1916. The following month, he was promoted to the position of [[Corporal]].<ref name="highlanders"/> Later the same year, he wounded his elbow, from either a gunshot or shrapnel injury.<ref name="highlanders"/><ref name="leader">{{cite news|url=http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/search/display.var.1612976.0.leader_on_the_pitch_and_the_battlefield.php|title=Leader on the pitch and the battlefield|publisher=Telegraph & Argus|accessdate=3 October 2016|first=Mark|last=Neale}}</ref>

 

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