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Thomas K. Chalmers

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Military Information

  • Date of enlistment: 25.08.1914
  • Place of enlistment: Ottawa, Ontario.
  • Service no: 1646
  • Rank: Private
  • Service Occupation:
  • Awards:
  • Regiment/Service: Canadian Infantry
  • Unit/Ship: Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry
  • Place of Death: Bellewarde Lake/Frezenberg, Belgium
  • Age at Death: 30
  • Date of Death: 08.05.1915
  • Burial Country: Belgium
  • Cemetery: Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres
  • Grave/Mem Ref no: Panel 10

Personal Information

  • Date of Birth: 15.09.1884
  • Place of Birth: Dundee
  • Address:
  • Occupation: Book Keeper
  • Mother:

    Helen Chalmers, 55 Dura St, Dundee

  • Father:

    David Chalmers, 55 Dura St, Dundee

  • Siblings:

    David

  • Spouse:
  • Children:

More about Thomas K. Chalmers

Thomas was the son of David and Helen Chalmers and enlisted with the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry 24/08/1914 (an original). He crossed to France with the regiment on 2oth December 1914 and was killed in action during fierce fighting on Bellewaerde Ridge, Belgium on 8th May 1915. Thomas has no known grave but is remembered on the Menin Gate Memorial. He previously served 7 years with 1st Battalion Black Watch.

Thomas was the brother of Pte David M. Chalmers 203086, 4th Battalion Seaforth Highlanders, who was killed in action 20.11.1917.

For more information on Thomas, visit Thomas’s Memorial and Thomas’s Regimental Record and Circumstances of Death Register

There are references to Thomas in the local Dundee Newspapers held within Dundee Central Library

Peoples Journal 22/05/1915 page 14 & 29/05/1915 page 10. Courier 24/05/1915 page 5. Evening Telegraph 24/05/1915 page 3.

Information researched and supplied by Gary Thomson

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