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PA23 8LU - Dunoon Grammar School Walter Smith served with the Cameronian Scottish Rifles. In December 1914 he was in the trenches at Armentieres in Northern France when he was involved in a Christmas Day truce with the Germans. Tragically, he was killed when a Prussian sniper loosed a shot after a British gun was fired accidentally. His death brought that particular truce to an end. Walter was a former pupil at Dunoon Grammar School and today’s pupils have been researching his life and war experiences. After their work was featured by Â鶹Éç News online, Avril Auchterlonie, a relative of Walter’s, got in touch with the school. The pupils invited Avril along to Dunoon Grammar School to hear more about her own research into her family tree. They also spoke to former head teacher Joe Rhodes about Walter’s fateful Christmas Day a century ago.