More about Alfred Bramhill Doe

For reasons unknown this man is not listed on the original Dundee Roll of Honour, but is remembered on the Harris Academy, Dundee Roll of Honour.

Alfred B Doe   Second Lieutenant   Black Watch

DOE―Died from wounds received in action on 23d April, Alfred B. Doe, Second-Lieutenant, Black Watch, fifth son of Mr and Mrs George B. Doe Home Lea, Errol, aged 25 years.

Dundee Courier 5th May 1917

ERROL OFFICER DIES OF WOUNDS.

Mr and Mrs George B. Doe, Homelea Cottage, Errol, have received official intimation that their son, Second Lieutenant Alfred B. Doe, Black Watch, has died of wounds.

Lieutenant Doe was well known and highly respected in the Carse, especially in his native parish of Errol.  He served his apprenticeship as an architect and surveyor in the office of Messrs J. & F. Salmond, Dundee, and for four years prior to his enlistment he acted as principal assistant to Mr David Hardie, factor, Errol Estates Office.

Lieutenant Doe, after receiving about a years’ training in Lincoln’s Inn O.T.C., was gazetted in August last to the Black Watch, and almost immediately thereafter was drafted to the front.

Much sympathy is being extended to his wife and his parents in their sad bereavement.

Dundee Courier 7th May 1917