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Alexander Berry Bonnar

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Alexander's Pension Record image courtesy of WFA

Military Information

  • Date of enlistment:
  • Place of enlistment: Dundee
  • Service no: 26596
  • Rank: Private
  • Service Occupation:
  • Awards:
  • Regiment/Service: Cameroanians (Scottish Rifles)
  • Unit/Ship: 11th Battalion
  • Place of Death: Greece
  • Age at Death: 28
  • Date of Death: 08.05.1917
  • Burial Country: Greece
  • Cemetery: Doiran Memorial
  • Grave/Mem Ref no:

Personal Information

  • Date of Birth:
  • Place of Birth: Dundee
  • Address: 236 Lochee Rd, Dundee
  • Occupation:
  • Mother:
  • Father:

    John Bonnar, 125 Roseberry St, Dundee

  • Siblings:
  • Spouse:

    Elizabeth D. Bonnar, Grants Land, Old Rattray, Blairgowrie

  • Children:

    Thomas Loos Berry, born 04.03.1916

More about Alexander Berry Bonnar

Alexander has no known grave but is remembered on the Doiran Memorial.

Alexander Berry Bonnar   26596   Scottish Rifles

BONNAR―Reported missing on May 8th 1917, now presumed to be killed in action on that date.  Private Alex. Bonnar, Scottish Rifles, second son of Mr and Mrs Bonnar, 125 Rosebery Street Lochee. – Inserted by his loving mother and father.

Dundee People’s Journal 14th September 1918

Additional information kindly supplied by Michael Caldwell

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