[Listed as Sergeant] Lance Corporal 270011, 1st/6th Battalion, Princess Louise's (Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders) formerly 265057, Royal Highlanders. Admitted to Field Hospital No. 67, in September 1918, suffering from wounds to the head and transferred to Landrecies where he died from those wounds 9 October 1918. Born Little Dunkeld, Perthshire, resident Connel, Argyllshire, enlisted Birnam, Perthshire. Son of Ann Anderson, of Oak Place, Birnam; husband of Mrs Christine Anderson, of Bulrowfield Cottages, Inverness, Dundee, married 18 February 1908. In the 1901 census he was aged 15, born Little Dunkeld, a scholar, son of William B and Annie J Anderson, resident Oak Place, Little Dunkeld, Perthshire, Scotland. Reservist. Originally attested 23 April 1908 as 1061, 2nd/6th Batattalion, Black Watch, for one year, aged 22 years, a Newsagent (Vanman), married, re-engaged for periods of one year 1909, 1910, 1911, 1912, 1913, 1914. Posted to 4th Reserve Battalion, Royal Highlanders 8 November 1917, transferred as 270011 Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders 12 March 1918 as Sergeant, reverted at own requiest to Private 15 April 1918, appointed Lance Corporal 21 September 1918. Buried in CROSS ROADS CEMETERY, FONTAINE-AU-BOIS, Nord, France. Grave lost. Commemorated on Landrecies Communal Cemetery Memorial 18.

Private S/21796, 5th Battalion, Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders. Killed in action 18 July 1916. Aged 20. Born Ballinlochan, Perthshire, resident Birnam, Perthshire, enlisted Perth, Perthshire. Son of Malcolm and Elizabeth Campbell, of Murthly's Terrace, Birnam, Dunkeld, Perthshire. No known grave. Commemorated on THIEPVAL MEMORIAL, Somme, France. Pier and Face 15 B.

[Transcribed as Sydney M F CESARI] Captain, 6th Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps. Killed in action 3 October 1915. Aged 25. Educated University of Edinburgh. Career: Perth Academy. Student of Medicine, 1907-14; MB, ChB 1913. OTC Medical, April 1908 to April 1913, Cadet Corporal. RAMC (Special Reserve), Lieutenant April 1913; Captain July 1915. France August 1914. In the 1901 censsu he was aged 11, a son, born Inverness, a scholar, resident Birnam Hotel, Little Dunkeld, Perthshire, Scotland. Buried in BETHUNE TOWN CEMETERY, Pas de Calais, France. Plot II. Row K. Grave 4.

Extract from De Ruvigny's Roll of Honour 1914-1918, volume 2, page :

CESARI, SYDNEY FRASER McALPINE, M.B., Ch.B., M.D., Capt., Royal Army Medical Corps (Spec. Res.), 2nd s. of the late Francis Felix Cesari, of Inverness and Birnam (a Roman, who fought with distinction in Victor Emmanuel's Army, and received the Military Medal for valour), by his wife, Norah (Woodburn. Birnam, Perthshire), dau. of Thomas Herbert, Civil Engineer; b. Inverness. 2 Dec. 1889: educ. Perth Academy, and Edinburgh University, where he had a brilliant course. gaining medals in Surgery and Anatomy. and graduated M.B. and Ch.B. in July, 1913. later passing through his chemical examination for M.D. He was gazetted 2nd Lieut. 8 April. 1913 ; went to the front with the 1st Expeditionary Force in Aug. 1914, and was killed in action by a rifle bullet at 0.15 p.m., 3 Oct. 1915. while handing over dug-outs for wounded to another officer. Buried in Bethune Cemetery. Capt. P. Sampson, Commanding Officer of his unit, wrote : "He was an officer whose courage and bravery were not only known in the Field Ambulance, but throughout the 2nd Division." W. McK. H. McCulloch, Field Ambulance, 1st Guards Division, B.E.F„ also wrote that he became very intimate with him. during their long periods of action around Givenchy, Cuinchy, and north of Festubert, and it was at Vermelles, when handing over his unit, that his death occurred. The shot came from the Hohenzollern Redoubt 1,000 yards away. He was carried on a stretcher into a trench and he died a few minutes later ; unm.

Private 76166, 10th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire & Derbyshire Regiment) formerly 99, Highland Field Company, Royal Engineers. Resident Birnam, Perthshire, enlisted Glasgow. Brother of John and Thomas (below). In the 1891 census he was aged 5, born Little Dunkeld, Perthshire, a scholar, son of William and Jane A Fitzgerald, resident Torwood Village, Little Dunkeld, Perthshire, Scotland. In the 1901 census he was aged 10, born Little Dunkeld, Perthshire, a scholar, son of Jane Ann Fitzgerald, resident Torwood, Little Dunkeld, Perthshire, Scotland. No known grave. Commemorated on ARRAS MEMORIAL, Pas de Calais, France. Bay 7.

Private S/40316, 1st Battalion, Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) formerly 1771, Scottish Horse. Killed in action 25 September 1916. Aged 21. Born Paisley, Renfrewshire, enlisted Dunkeld, Perthshire. Son of Robert Henderson, of 67, Love St., Paisley, Renfrewshire. No known grave. Commemorated on THIEPVAL MEMORIAL, Somme, Frane. Pier and Face 10 A.

Corporal (Piper) 8862, 2nd Battalion, Cameronians (Scottish Rifles). Killed in action 31 July 1917. Aged 27. Born St. George's, London, enlisted Stratford. Husband of Magdalena Horne, of Milton Farm, Strathbraan, Dunkeld, Perthshire. No known grave. Commemorated on YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Panel 22.

Private 21058 [21056 CWGC], 2nd Battalion, Royal Scots Fusiliers. Killed in action 30 July 1916. Resident Dunkeld, Perthshire, enlisted Ayr. No known grave. Commemorated on THIEPVAL MEMORIAL, Somme, France. Pier and Face 3 C.

Lance Corporal S/16922, 5th Battalion, Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders. Killed in action 25 April 1918. Aged 19. Born Dunkeld, Perthshire, resident Bankfoot, Perthshire, enlisted Perth, Perthshire. Son of William and Catherine Innes, of Nairne Cottage, Bankfoot, Perthshire. No known grave. Commemorated on TYNE COT MEMORIAL, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Panel 136 to 138.

Lieutenant, 3rd Battalion attached to 2nd Battalion, Dorset Regiment. Died of wounds 7 October 1918. Aged 22. Baptised 18 April 1897 in Ruabon, Denbighshire. Son of Henry and Anne Jenks, of Dunairds, Birnam, Perthshire. In the 1901 census he was aged 4, born Rubon, Denbighshire, son of Henry and Anne Jenks, resident The House, Barrow Hedges, Carshalton, Epsom, Surrey. In the 1911 census a baorder and schoolboy, aged 14, born Ruabon, Denbightshire, at school, resident Charterhouse School, Godalming Rural, Godalming, Surrey. Buried in KANTARA WAR MEMORIAL CEMETERY, Egypt. Section F. Grave 3. See also Godalming, Charterhouse School.

Extrat from England & Wales Government Probate Death Index 1920:

JENKS Arthur Leslie of Dunairds Birriam Perth North Britain lieutenant H.M. Army died 7 October 1918 in Egypt Administration London 24 December to Anne Jenks widow. Effects £263 12s 9d.

Lieutenant Acting Captain, 390 Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery. Died on service in Italy 24 May 1918. Aged 33. Son of Robert and Harriet McGillewie, of Dunkeld. In the 1891 census he was aged 6, born Dunkeld, Perthshire, son of Robert and Arriet McGillewie, resident Bridge Street, Caputh, Dunkeld, Perthshire, Scotland; brother of Nigel (below). Buried in MONTECCHIO PRECALCINO COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION, Italy. Plot 9. Row D. Grave 10.

Extract from England & Wales Government Probate Death Index 1918:

MCGILLEWIE Malcolm of Dunkeld captain R.G.A. died 24 May 1918 in Italy Confirmation of Robert McGillewie writer.
Sealed London 13 December.

Private 26400, 10th/11th Battalion, Highland Light Infantry. Killed in action 27 August 1917. Aged 26. Born and baptised Dunkeld, Perthshire, enlisted Greenock, Renfrewshire. Son of Duncan and Isabella McIntosh, Taybank Temperance Hotel, Dunkeld, Perthshire. In the 1901 census he was aged 9, born Dunkeld, Perthshire, a scholar, son of Duncan and Isabella McIntosh, resident School House Rooms Over, Brae Street, Dunkeld, Dunkeld & Dowally, Perthshire, Scotland. Buried in TYNE COT CEMETERY, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Plot VII. Row G. Grave 6.

Private 9901, 1st Battalion, Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders. Killed in action 11 November 1914. Born and resident Dunkeld, Perthshire, enlisted Glasgow, Lanarkshire. No known grave. Commemorated on YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Panel 38 and 40.

Sergeant 511259, "B" Company, 2nd/14th (County of London) Battalion (London Scottish), London Regiment. Killed in action 15 October 1918. Aged 27. Resident Dunkeld, enlisted London. Son of Mr. and Mrs. John McRostie, of The Brae, Dunkeld. In the 1891 census he was newborn, born Dunkeld, Perthshire, son of John M and Mary Ann Rostie, resident Brae Street, Caputh, Dunkeld, Perthshire, Scotland. In the 1901 census he was aged 10, born Dunkeld, Perthshire, a scholar, son of John and Mary Ann Rostie, resident Private House, 3rd Floor, Brae Street, Dunkeld, Dunkeld & Dowally, Perthshire, Scotland. No known grave. Commemorated on TYNE COT MEMORIAL, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Panel 152.

Private 268869, 8th (Service) Battalion, Black Watch (Royal Highlanders). Killed in action 16 April 1918. Aged 38. Born Dowally, Perthshire, enlisted Perth. Son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Robert Robertson, of The Brae, Dunkeld, Perthshire; husband of Amelia J. Kemp Robertson, of Marionlea, Broxburn, West Lothian. In the 1901 census he was aged 4, born Cameron, Fife, Scotland, son of Richard E and Margaret Robertson, resident Warren Cottage, Dunkeld & Dowally, Dowally, Perthshire, Scotland. No known grave. Commemorated on TYNE COT MEMORIAL, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Panel 94 to 96.

Major, 1st Battalion, Black Watch (Royal Highlanders). Killed in action 14 Septermber 1914. Aged 41. Born 17 February 1873 at Blair Castle, Blair Atholl, Perthshire. Son of John, 7th Duke of Atholl. Served in the South African War. Educated Eton College, left 1891. Unmarried. In the 1891 census he was aged 18, born Blair Atholl, Perthshire, a Second Lieutenant, 3rd Battalion, Royal Highlanders, resident The Castle, Blair Athole, Perthshire, Scotland. No known grave. Commemorated on LA FERTE-SOUS-JOUARRE MEMORIAL, Seine-et-Marne, France.

Extract from England & Wales Government Probate Death Index 1916:

lord MURRAY the right honourable George Stewart of Blair Castle Blair Atholl major Black Watch died 14 September 1914 in France on active service Confirmation of the most noble John Hugh Henry Stewart Murray duke of Atholl James C.B. DSO.
Sealed London 12 July. Eik Sealed London June 1917.

Private 3130917, 2nd Battalion, Princess Louise's (Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders). Died while a Prisoner of War of the Japanese in Kuala Lumpur P.O.W. Camp 23 May 1942. Aged 22. Born and resident Perthshire. Buried in KUALA LUMPUR (CHERAS ROAD) CIVIL CEMETERY, Kuala Lumpar, Malaysia. Grave 819.

Sergeant 2695647, 1st Battalion, Scots Guards. Killed in action 30 January 1944. Aged 24. Born 11 August 1919, and resident, Perthshire. Son of John and Mary Doig; husband of Joan Doig, of Chadwell Heath, Essex. Attested 19 August 1937. Buried in ANZIO WAR CEMETERY, Italy. Plot III. Row X. Grave 4.

Major 49508, 79 (The Scottish Horse) Medium Regiment, Royal Artillery. Killed in action at Normandy 9 June 1944. Born Stirling, resident Perthshire. Married Emilia Kreiker January to March Quarter 1939 in Chelsea Registration District, London. Buried in RYES WAR CEMETERY, BAZENVILLE, Calvados, France. Plot III. Row H. Grave 3.

Extract from England & Wales Government Probate Death Index 1944:

LYLE Robin Alexander of Dunkeld House Dunkeld Perthshire died 9 June 1944 on war service Confirmation of Emilia Lyle.
Sealed Llandudno 20 October.

Second Officer, S.S. Empire Mermaid (London), Merchant Navy. Died 27 March 1941. Aged 26. Son of Donald McIntosh, and of Annie H. McIntosh, of Dalguise, Perthshire. No known grave. Commemorated on TOWER HILL MEMORIAL, London. Panel 43.

Corporal 14662198, Royal Army Service Corps. Killed when the lorry he was travelling on collided with a tree at Northleach, Gloucestershire, 29 July 1945. Aged 37. Born and resident Perth. Son of Dugald and Jane Ann McKillop; husband of Jane Adam Gall Mckillop, of Craigie. REsident Glover Street, Perth. Buried in PERTH (JEANFIELD AND WELLSHILL) CEMETERY, Perthshire. Section A. Jeanfield Division Grave 62.

Extract from Gloucester Citizen - Tuesday 14 August 1945, page 5:

FOUR SOLDIERS KILLED BY COTSWOLD CRASH

JURY SAY DRIVER WAS GROSSLY NEGLIGENT

A JURY AT AN INQUEST IN GLOUCESTER ON MONDAY ON FOUR SOLDIERS OF A PARTY OF 33 ON A LORRY WHICH COLLIDED WITH A TREE AT NORTHLEACH JUST BEFORE MIDNIGHT ON JULY 28, FOUND THAT THE DRIVER OF THE LORRY, RONALD VICTOR CHAPMAN, HAD DRIVEN THE VEHICLE IN A GROSSLY NEGLIGENT MANNER, BUT NOT WITH CRIMINAL NEGLIGENCE.

The foreman added that the overloading of the vehicle had contributed to the accident.

The lorry had taken a party of soldiers to Cheltenham on a recreational trip and was returning with them to their station at Burford. It was stated that there were 33 people on the lorry including two Land Army girls, although the lorry, which was not adapted for carrying passengers was only supposed to take 20.

Four soldiers who died in the City General Hospital, Gloucester, from their injuries, were Cpl. Edward George Packer (35), of Priory-road, Ascot, Cpl. Angus Harry McKilliop (37), of Glover-street, Perth. Cpl. Henry John Lincoln (40), of Union-street, Exeter, and Cpl. Fred Baker (27), of Erewash Hotel, Station-road, Langley Mills, Notts. Eight other soldiers and the two Land Army girls were injured.

Dr. William Washbourn and Dr. Waller Gordon Birks said the men ail died from shock due to multiple injuries.

Describing the accident. Cpl. Timothy George Luman, who was in charge of the lorry and was sitting with the driver, said they had just passed the first traffic lights at Northleach when he saw two very bright headlights coming towards them. His driver dimmed the lights and pulled to the left.

No Sound of Crash

"I felt the lorry go on the nearside grass verge," he said. "The driver almost stopped, pulled off the grass verge on to the road, and then stopped. I heard no sound of a crash at all, but the noise of the passing vehicle may have drowned It. Having been over the verge we stopped automatically to see if everything was all right, and I was surprised to find the superstructure carrying the canvas cover had been badly bent on one side, and men were lying about in the road. Later a police sergeant pointed out to me that the vehicle had struck a tree."

Cpl. Lumen added that their average speed during the journey was 20 to 25 miles an hour.

Answering Mr. H. Langley Smith, who represented Lincoln's widow, he said they had sufficient time, he thought, to get to Bur¬ford. If they had not he would not have hurried to get back by midnight as they were supposed to do. They started from Cheltenham at about 11.5 p.m., and he had been delayed five minutes in starting because a lot of people were on the lorry who should not have been, and he had told them to get off. He thought there were about 20 men on the lorry when they started, and he did not know there were two Land Army girls. He had since been told there were 33 people on the lorry.

"Not Travelling Fast "

Some of the men, who were either standing or sitting in the back of the lorry, said they heard a crash and remembered nothing until they found themselves in the road. One of them, Driver Sidney Arthur Holden, said they were travelling at average speed. He did not remember telling the Coroner's Officer that they were travelling pretty fast, and in fact they were not. They were taking a fairly sharp bend. He felt the lorry go up on two wheels, and there was a crash.

Driver Stanley Ronald Cutts said there was a jerk, a bump, another jerk, the lorry swayed and the canvas hood seemed to collapse over them.

Evidence was given by several witnesses that no vehicle had travelled along the road from the direction of Oxford towards Cheltenham at the time at which it was alleged Chapman was dazzled by lights from an oncoming vehicle.

Frederick William Tea, of the Garage, Northleach, said he was driving a car from Cheltenham to Northleach at about 25 to 28 miles an hour when, at Hangman's Stone, the lorry driven by Chap¬man passed him travelling at 35 to 40 miles an hour. He next saw the lorry after the accident had occurred and he had not met or been overtaken by any other vehicle in the meantime.

Questioned by Mr. Anthony Scott (representing the Treasury Solicitor and Chapman) Tea agreed that if a vehicle had turned to the right or left at the cross roads where the accident occurred he would not have seen it.

Saw No Other Vehicle

Frank Bridgeman, Lane Cottage, Northleach, said he had been sitting at a window over¬looking the Oxford-Cheltenham road for 20 minutes before he heard the crash, and during that time no vehicle had travelled towards Cheltenham.

John Francis Fisher, a lorry driver connected with a U.S. Army Hospital, said he and a Cpl. Hughes had been walking along the main road for about three minutes before they heard the crash, but no motor vehicle had overtaken them, and P.C. S. T. Smith said he had been I patrolling the main road for about five minutes before the crash, but no vehicle had passed him.

P.S. A. Allsopp gave evidence that when he was in the guard¬room at Northleach Police Station, he heard a motor vehicle pass over the Prison cross-roads at what sounded like a "rather fast speed," followed by a loud crash and a sound resembling hollow metal pipes falling on the road.

On Verge for 41 Feet

On examining the road where the accident had occurred, he found marks of wheels which showed that the lorry had mounted the nearside kerb and continued on the verge for 41 feet nine inches, reaching a depth of two feet 11 inches from the roadside. It had travelled 163 feet after the collision before stopping. The base of the tree was two feet four inches from the edge of the road.

A statement, made by Chapman to Police Sergeant F. Dore, Bur¬ford, was read, in which Chapman said that when he reached the traffic lights he met a vehicle travelling in the middle of the road at about 55 miles an hour, with its head lights full on. He swerved to avoid it and struck the tree. The other vehicle did not stop and he did not know what sort of vehicle it was.

Chapman, who corroborated his statement in evidence, said that his speed varied from 15 to 28 miles an hour, and he was travel¬ling at about 25 miles an hour down the incline towards the cross-roads.

In reply to the Deputy City Coroner, Mr. P. D. Clarke, Chap¬man said he slowed down to about 20 miles an hour when he saw the lights coming towards him. When he hit the kerb he did not know whether he had hit a stone or not, and as he was going slowly he did not stop.

He thought he was travelling at less than 20 mica an hour when he hit the tree. He realized that he had caught the tree, but he did not think it was anything very serious, so pulled back on to the road and brought the lorry gently to a standstill.