Veteran rugby players from north-east Fife are to play in a tournament in France in memory of a Scottish international killed in the Battle of the Somme.
Howe of Fife Knights will represent Scotland in the Challenge Eric MacLeod Milroy tournament.
The over-35s side set off on Thursday for Amiens where the three-day Mémoire de Rugby event will commemorate players who fell in the First and Second World Wars.
They were invited to take part after hosting two French teams last year and were delighted to be given the chance to pay tribute those who made the ultimate sacrifice.
Captain Ian Manson said: “It is a huge honour.
“Everyone is very excited to be taking part.
“There are teams from France and Belgium playing.”
Howe of Fife Rugby Club in part owes its existence to a veteran of the bloody battle 100 years ago, Murdo Fraser, whose grandson, also Murdo Fraser, is its current president.
Ian said: “He was one of only two guys from his Black Watch battalion that survived.
“He went on to be a founding member of Howe of Fife Rugby Club in 1921.”
Eric ‘Puss’ MacLeod Milroy, of Edinburgh, captained the national team before the First World War.
He joined the 9th Royal Scots before being commissioned as an officer in The Black Watch.
He was sent to the Western Front in October 1915 and killed at the Battle of Delville Wood on July 18, 1916, during the liberation of the village of Longueval, where the famous Pipers’ Memorial statue now stands.
The scrum half played for George Watson’s College, Watsonians and Scotland, and won 12 caps between 1910 and 1014.
He was among 31 current and former Scottish internationals who lost their lives in the First World War.
Other teams competing in the tournament, part of the European Veteran Rugby Series, include French sides RC Amiens and RC Lorient, Belgian team Nivelles and Rugby Flanders.
The weekend will also involve a tour of the Delville Wood, an evening of Scottish music, a pipe band parade and a commemorative service for the Scots soldiers who fell in the Battle of the Somme.
The Knights will then travel in a poppy-coloured bus to the Stade de France to watch Scotland’s Six Nations match against Paris on Sunday.
