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    Tributes to Gallipoli dead

    Friday, July 20th, 2018 - Written by JAKE COLTMAN
    Callants’ Club president Ken McCartney lays the wreath at the Horse. PICTURES: ILF IMAGING

    What is often described as the blackest day in Hawick’s military history, the attack by units of the King’s Own Scottish Borderers on the Turkish lines in Gallipoli on July 12, 1915, was remembered by the Callants’ Club on Thursday night.

    Two wreath-laying ceremonies, both poignant, solemn affairs, took place at the 1514 Memorial and the war memorial in Wilton Lodge Park.

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