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The bible that saved a WW1 soldier from a bullet to the chest
The Bible, dog tags and discharge certificate will be displayed before a permanent transfer to the Gordon Highlanders Museum, family members said.
- A service Bible that saved Private Duncan MacFarlane during World War I is set to go on public display for the first time at the Dunscore Heritage Centre, featuring a bullet hole from the shot that would have struck his heart.
- MacFarlane, then 27, was seriously wounded on October 18, 1917, during the Third Battle of Ypres, and was registered as 'missing in action' for six months before his wife tracked him to a military hospital in Edinburgh.
- Granddaughter Jo Abbott, who inherited the Bible, recalls seeing the bayonet and bullet scars marking his body after his 1919 medical discharge. She plans to donate the items to the heritage center to share his story.
- Members of the Gordon Highlanders Regimental Association will join the family for a ceremony at the center on April 19, with the collection remaining on display in Dunscore until October.
- Following the exhibition in Dunscore, the memorabilia will be donated to the Gordon Highlanders Museum in Aberdeen for permanent display, as Abbott hopes sharing Duncan's story will remind generations of the horrors of war.
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