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Alfred Maxwell Cleghorn

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Military Information

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  • Rank: Captain
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  • Awards: Military Cross, Croix de Guerre & twice Mentioned in Dispatches
  • Regiment/Service: Royal Engineers
  • Unit/Ship: 205th Field Company

Personal Information

  • Date of Birth: 19.10.1892
  • Place of Birth: Alyth
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  • Mother:

    Margaret Howie Smith

  • Father:

    John Cleghorn

  • Siblings:

    Margaret, William, Ruth, Eva, John, Herbert, Beatrice, Christian & Allan

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  • Age at Death: 80
  • Date of Death: 30.03.1973
  • Place of Death: Alyth
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More about Alfred Maxwell Cleghorn

London Gazette 2 April 1915[1] City of, Dundee (Fortress) Engineers. Corporal Alfred Maxwell Cleghorn to be Second Lieutenant. Dated 3rd April, 1915.

In Royal Engineers in WW 1 Temporary Lieutenant Acting Captain Image ref 872326 In Supplement to the Edinburgh Gazette 1919: T./Lt. (A./Capt.) Alfred Maxwell Cleghorn, 205th Fd. Coy., R.E. Ditto Supplement to London Gazette 3 June 1919 Supplement to London Gazette 26 May 1915

Awarded Military Cross for an act of gallantry

CORPS OF ROYAL ENGINEERS. The undermentioned to be temporary Lieutenants: — Dated 6th May, 1915. Alfred Maxwell Cleghorn

Edinburgh University Roll of Honour: Cleghorn, Alfred Maxwell Dundee High School, First XV, Student of Science 1911-14 B.SC 1914, O.T.C. Engineers, Oct 1911-14, Cadet R.E. City of Dundee Fortress (T.) Sapper Sept 1914, Sergeant 1915; Lieutenant May 1915, Acting Captain Dec 1917 to July 1919, 205th Field Coy. France Jan 1916 to July 1919. Dispatches Dec 1917 and June 1918. Croix de Guerre (Belgium) Apr 1918. M.C. 1919

Gary Thomson

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