Paper boat - 2D

Busy day, but with a rare opportunity to think and discuss at a training session this afternoon, where I used a 'paper boat' to describe partnership working. And so we created a visual representation of this - the sticky note boat. 

Unrelated to this, but as it is 11/11, this year I particularly remember those relations whose stories I uncovered this year: Peter McGarrachie (my paternal grandfather's cousin) is one. 

Peter was the middle brother of three and the only one who did not return home. His older brother Andrew had emigrated to Canada, joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force in 1915, was wounded during the Somme offensive in 1916 and awarded the Military Medal for "conspicuous gallantry & devotion to duty at battle of Passchendaele as acting Company Sergeant Major" in 1917. His younger brother, John, served in the Merchant Navy and returned to Scotland from Canada in 1918 as a 'Distressed British Seaman'. 

I already knew that Peter had 'drowned' in Egypt and had been a baker, but had little further information until one of the many books published as part of the commemoration of WW1 popped up in an internet search (the benefits of an unusual name). This book, 'Bully Beef and Biscuits: Food in the Great War' by John Hartley, had a paragraph describing how Private Peter McGarrachie of 18th Field Bakery had been a conductor on a Suez canal barge travelling between Port Said and Kantara. I looks like he had been wearing nailed boots, slipped on the iron deck & disappeared into the water, although his body was later recovered. He was 26. The book also provides a snippet of information about his life before the war - he'd worked for Hall's Bakery in Ayr. His name is on the war memorial in Wellington Square, Ayr, which is directly in front of South Ayrshire Council's HQ, where I've spent many hours over the past couple of years. I've pored over that memorial before and never spotted his name. Maybe I had to discover his story first.