A Son of the Rock

Cockburnspath Kirkyard contains several gravestones commemorating war dead.

This one names no less than three Paxtons who died in World War 1:-

William A Watson was killed in action in France on 24/4/1918:-

This is one of those grey stones of the kind that also appear in Crail Kirkyard. Guardsman T Scott died post-war on 22/11/1918 – 11 days after the armistice:-

Sergeant W Paxton, RAF, (a relative of the three WW1 Paxtons?) Died 1/10/1941:-

Sergeant A H S Evans, RAF. Died 24/2/1941:-

This commemorates Stephen Falconer Dunnett, killed in Malaya, 1945:-