Michael Drumm

Military Information

  • Date of enlistment:
  • Place of enlistment: Dundee
  • Service no: 6415
  • Rank: Private
  • Service Occupation:
  • Awards:
  • Regiment/Service: Black Watch
  • Unit/Ship: 4th Battalion
  • Place of Death: Belgium
  • Age at Death: 41
  • Date of Death: 30/12/1916
  • Burial Country: Belgium
  • Cemetery: Essex Farm Cemetery
  • Grave/Mem Ref no: II. J. 3.

Personal Information

  • Date of Birth: 17.05.1875
  • Place of Birth: Dundee
  • Address: 154 Brook Street, Dundee
  • Occupation:
  • Mother:

    Helen Glenny

  • Father:
  • Siblings:

    Ann Drumm, 154 Brook St, Dundee

  • Spouse:

    Mrs Drumm, died 11.05.1911

  • Children:

    James, born 11.03.1902, John., born, 01.08.1904, Patrick, born 29.08.1906 & Mary, born 12.10.1908

More about Michael Drumm

Michael Drumm    6415   Black Watch

DRUMM―In loving memory of our dear father, Private Michael Drumm, 6415, Black Watch, who was killed in action, on the 30th December 1916; also our dear mother, who died on 11th May 1911.  (American papers please copy). – Inserted by his sorrowing children, 154 Brook Street, Dundee, also his sisters and brother, niece, nephews (in France), and brother-in-law, J. M’Hardy, 68 Hill Street, Dundee.

Dundee People’s Journal 20th January 1917

Additional information and image kindly supplied by Craig Drumm and Michael Caldwell

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