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The war poet, E. Alan Mackintosh wrote 鈥業n Memoriam鈥� about the loss in a trench raid of a young soldier, Private David Sutherland from Reay in 1916. Mackintosh won the Military Cross for this raid, but couldn鈥檛 shake his feeling of responsibility towards David, whose body he couldn't bring back.

So you were David鈥檚 father,
And he was your only son,
And the new-cut peats are rotting
And the work is left undone...

Curiously David wasn鈥檛 an only son, but the family were so taken with Mackintosh鈥檚 work, that they referred to the poem on the family gravestone in Reay New Cemetery in Caithness by page number - p.40 in Mackintosh鈥檚 book (A Highland Regiment). Mackintosh couldn鈥檛 bring back David鈥檚 body, but he gave the family something they treasured enough to include on a gravestone. Louise Yeoman hears from David鈥檚 nephew Sinclair Wares and Mackintosh鈥檚 biographer Colin Campbell.