LANCE CORPORAL ARCHIE FERGUSON
ARGYLL AND SUTHERLAND HIGHLANDERS
13TH NOVEMBER 1916 AGE 19
BURIED: MAILLY WOOD CEMETERY, MAILLY-MAILLET, FRANCE
This unquestioning allegiance to country has completely gone out of fashion. However, it wasn't common at this period either, and when you read what the Senator for Wisconsin, Carl Schurz, actually said in 1872 then you can see that it wasn't what he meant anyway: "My country right or wrong; if right to be kept right; and if wrong to be put right".