In memory...

Still coughing... so thought a little fresh air might help. Wonderful day, and the walk was beautiful.

I never walk this road without remembering a dark and terrible event. On January 17, 1985, retired Major David Cunningham, 56, Sergeant Terence Hosker, 39, and Private John Thomson, 25, of the Royal Scots picked up a £19,000 payroll from a Penicuik bank to take to the Glencorse Barracks in Penicuik. Corporal Andrew Walker appeared with a sub-machine gun and forced them to drive up this very quiet road into the hills. On the hillside just ahead he executed all three.

Having served 25 years of his 27 year sentence he was due to be moved to low supervision last year when he collapsed with a major stroke.

The £19,000 still lies undiscovered in these hills.