Mr Bamber bought the compass in 1965 from an antique shop in Blackpool. The compass is engraved with the name J Lindsay Brough, 15th Royal Scots. Wanting more information about the compass Mr Bamber contacted the HQ of the Royal Scots Regiment in Edinburgh. He received a letter in 2008 which gave details of the original owner who was 2nd Lieutenant James A Lindsay Brough who was killed on 1st July 1916, the first day of the Battle of the Somme. The Battalion had only just sailed from Southampton to Le Havre in January 1916. James Lindsay Brough has no known grave and is remembered on the Thiepval Memorial. The battalion had suffered terrible casualties in the are of the Scots Redoubt, Heligoland and Peake Trench. They lost 18 officers and 610 men killed, wounded or missing.
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