Great War Dundee
This is Dundee's story of those that served in the First World War, and of the people left at home
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David Kenneth Maxwell
Military Information
- Date of enlistment: May 1915
- Place of enlistment: Dundee
- Service no: 267572
- Rank: Private
- Service Occupation:
- Awards:
- Regiment/Service: Seaforth Highlanders
- Unit/Ship: 6th Battalion
- Place of Death: Belgium
- Age at Death: 21
- Date of Death: 31.07.1917
- Burial Country: Belgium
- Cemetery: Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres
- Grave/Mem Ref no: Panel 38
Personal Information
- Date of Birth:
- Place of Birth: Beverley, Yorkshire
- Address:
- Occupation: Apprentice Chartered Accountant, T. H. B. Rorie, Dundee
- Mother:
Kate Ellen Homes
- Father:
David Chalmers Maxwell “Westmount” Wormit, Fife
- Siblings:
- Spouse:
- Children:
More about David Kenneth Maxwell
For reasons unknown David is not listed on the original Dundee Roll of Honour but is remembered on the Dundee High School Roll of Honour and the Wormit War Memorial.
David Kenneth Maxwell 267572 Seaforth Highlanders
FORMER PUPIL OF DUNDEE HIGH SCHOOL WOUNDED.
Intimation has been received that Lance-Corporal D. K. Maxwell, of the Seaforth Highlanders, has been wounded.
Lance-Corporal Maxwell is an old High School boy, and was serving his apprenticeship as a chartered accountant in Dundee. He enlisted in the Seaforths shortly after the outbreak of the war, and has been at the front for several months. He is a son of Mr D. C. Maxwell, Wormit.
Dundee Evening Telegraph 19th July 1916
DUNDEE HIGH SCHOOL F. P. MISSING.
Pte. D. K. Maxwell, of the Seaforth Highlanders, who is reported missing since 31st July, is a son of Mr D. C. Maxwell, Wormit.
A former pupil of Dundee High School, Pte. Maxwell, who is 21 years of age, was formerly an apprentice C. A. in the office of the late Major T. H. B. Rorie. He enlisted in May, 1915, and first went to France two years ago. He was wounded last summer.
Dundee Courier 5th September 1917
Information supplied by Gary Thomson, further additional information kindly supplied by Vanessa Maxwell Strachan, and further information and image kindly supplied by Michael Caldwell.
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