College, United States of America. American ranch life however held no attraction to that of Australian properties. In 1908 he returned again to Scotland and married Katharine Margaret 'Madge' Scott Anderson (1879 – 25 June 1965), the daughter of Tom Scott Anderson and a descendant of Dr Alexander Anderson who participated in the last and fatal expedition of explorer Mungo Park. Will and Madge had two children, Margaret Deloraine 'Wendy' Ogilvie (1909–2003), and George Thomas Anderson Ogilvie (1912–1995), when living at 'Brundenlaws' in the village of Bowden. Australia remained important to the poet, prizing a stockwhip made by Alexander Patton with a silver tacks spelling out 'W.H.O.' on the handle, and making a damper for visiting guests. Australia also remembered Ogilvie through continued correspondence over his later years, including school children wishing him a happy 70th birthday. During World War I, Ogilvie remained in Great Britain, and was in charge of and prepared Canadian horses for military service at the Army Remounts Branch in Wiltshire, England. Fellow Australian poet A. B. 'Banjo' Paterson was placed with the Australian Remount Service in 1915, rising to become its officer in charge in Cairo, Egypt. In 1918 he first leased then bought the Presbyterian church manse 'Kirklea' at Ashkirk, Selkirkshire, Scotland. At the start of World War II Ogilvie, aged 71, undertook ARP warden duties in Selkirk. He continued to live in Kirklea until his death at 93 years of age in 1963, followed by his wife Madge in 1965. His ashes were scattered on the hill road to Roberton, Scotland, along with Australian wattle leaves. Ogilvie's son George wrote the biography entitled Balladist of Borders & Bush in 1994. Influences The poet actively acknowledged the influences of Australian poet Adam Lindsay Gordon (1833–1870): Our Lindsay Gordon! From the north-most cape South to the Otway he is loved and known. The boughs that shadow and the dusts that drape His horse and horseman— are they not our own? And every bronzed, burnt bushman in the east, And every digger In the western mines, From him has learned one lilting page at least, And loved it for the heart between the lines. He was given to be of the Whyte-Melville school, named after Scottish novelist and poet George John Whyte-Melville (1821–1878), which was evident in two poems of the same name in his works Galloping shoes (1922) and Scattered scarlet (1923). Ogilvie wrote lyrical