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Thomas Faulkner

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  • Service no: 1932
  • Rank: Private
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  • Regiment/Service: Black Watch
  • Unit/Ship: 4th Battalion

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  • Date of Birth: 1895
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  • Address: 25 St Matthew St, Dundee
  • Occupation: Tenter, Craigie Works, Dundee
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Thomas Faulkner   1932   Black Watch

DUNDEE TERRITORIAL SHOT IN NECK

LIESIN HOSPITAL DANGEROUSLY ILL.

Private Thomas Faulkner, of the 4th Black Watch, a Dundee lad, lies in hospital in Boulogne dangerously ill.

His mother, who resides at 25 St Matthew Street, has received a telegram from the officer in charge of the Territorials Records at Perth, in which he says :―”I regret to inform you that 1932 Pte. Thos. Faulkner, 4th Black Watch, dangerously ill in 14th General Hospital, Boulogne, gunshot wound in neck.”

Soon after Mrs Faulkner received the telegram a letter from Pte. Faulkner himself arrived.  It is dated 23d April, and reads :―I am writing these few lines to let you know I am still keeping well.  I am writing from the trenches just now.  I have been in a week, but I come out to-morrow.  The “Fourth” have had a pretty stiff time of it since coming out here.  Hoping this finds you well, as it leaves me, still dodging the German bullets.

Private Faulkner is twenty-one years of age, and served with the Dundee Territorials for five years.  Before leaving Dundee for France he was employed as a tenter in Craigie Works.

Dundee Courier 1st May 1915

Information and image kindly supplied by Michael Caldwell

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