FAR FROM HIS HILLS
SWEET REMEMBRANCE
ENFOLDS HIM

LIEUTENANT ROBERT WILSON HISLOP

1ST/6TH SEAFORTH HIGHLANDERS

4TH JULY 1917 AGE 32

BURIED: LIJSSENTHOEK MILITARY CEMETERY, BELGIUM


The Mr JN Hislop who confirmed Lieutenant Hislop's inscription was not his father since his father was the Revd Robert Hislop. Mr JN Hislop lived in Kilmacolm, Renfrewshire, in the Central Scottish Lowlands, but there is no indication where either Robert Wilson Hislop was living when he joined up or where his parents lived. Are the hills, "his hills" as referred to in the inscripton, the hills of Refrewshire with their sweeping views and open grassland and moors?