An Army reservist from Glasgow has visited a Dutch battlefield where his grandfather fought the Nazis in the Second World War.

Colour Sergeant James Gould serves with 6th Battalion, The Royal Regiment of Scotland (6 SCOTS), and he retraced the footsteps of his grandfather, Private Thomas Polson, to an island battlefield in the Netherlands where soldiers fought through floodwater to help liberate Europe.

He said: "It was incredible to walk the same ground my grandad did."

Gould, aged 51, and other reservists commemorated the 81st anniversary of Operation Infatuate, which liberated the island of Walcheren in November 1944, on a battlefield study.

Polson fought in the battle, but rarely discussed it. He lived through WW2 and later worked in Edinburgh as a hairdresser before passing a

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