Great War Dundee
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Alexander (Hamish) James Mann
Military Information
- Date of enlistment:
- Place of enlistment:
- Service no:
- Rank: Second Lieutenant
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- Awards:
- Regiment/Service: Black Watch
- Unit/Ship: 8th Battalion
- Place of Death: France
- Age at Death: 21
- Date of Death: 10.04.1917
- Burial Country: France
- Cemetery: Aubigny Communal Cemetery Extension
- Grave/Mem Ref no: VI.A.12.
Personal Information
- Date of Birth: 5 April 1896
- Place of Birth: Broughty Ferry
- Address:
- Occupation:
- Mother:
Charlotte Mann “Red House” Gillsland Rd, Edinburgh
- Father:
Alexander Mann, “Red House” Gillsland Rd, Edinburgh
- Siblings:
David, Jeanie, Isobel & Alan
- Spouse:
- Children:
More about Alexander (Hamish) James Mann
For reasons unknown this man is not listed on the original Dundee Roll of Honour. He was known as Hamish Mann and was a former pupil of Grove Academy, Broughty Ferry and is remembered on the schools war memorial.
Hamish was the brother of Captain Allan Cowan Mann, M.M. & Bar, M.i.D. twice, Royal Army Medical Corps and Captain David Mann, Royal Army Medical Corps, both brothers served during the Great War and both returned home safely.
Mann was commissioned in July 1915, and drafted to France in August 1916, joining the 8th Battalion Black Watch near Bethune. He survived several battles of the Somme, but was wounded while leading his platoon during the advance at Arras in April 1917, and died on the 10th, five days after his 21st birthday.
Mann had contributed to The Craigleith Chronicle and other Scottish publications under the pen-name ‘Lucas Cappe’. In the brief year he was in service in France, he wrote a good two dozen poems. His parents collected his poetry, adding to what was written in the trenches some pre-war work and other poems written before he saw active service, and published it as A Subaltern’s Musings in 1918.
Information researched and supplied by Gary Thomson, additional information kindly supplied by Jim Flood.
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