In your ‘Lest We Forget’ weekly memorial column to the Haddington men who lost their lives in the First World War, historian Alastair Shepherd states that, for some unknown reason, William Wharton and his Sunderland-born wife settled in Distillery Park, Haddington.
As a nephew of Mr and Mrs Wharton, I can explain why.
William Wharton married Edith Apps and they moved to Haddington to join the Apps family who had moved to the town, seeking work, during the First World War.
Descendants of that family still live in the town.
Bugler Wharton’s name is commemorated on the war memorial in Holy Trinity Church, Haddington.
John Wood Herdmanflatt Haddington
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