Joseph Geddes

Military Information

  • Date of enlistment:
  • Place of enlistment: Dundee
  • Service no: 1321
  • Rank: Private
  • Service Occupation:
  • Awards:
  • Regiment/Service: Black Watch
  • Unit/Ship: 4th Battalion
  • Place of Death: France
  • Age at Death: 27
  • Date of Death: 25/09/1915
  • Burial Country: France
  • Cemetery: Loos Memorial
  • Grave/Mem Ref no: Panel 78 to 83.

Personal Information

  • Date of Birth:
  • Place of Birth: Glasgow
  • Address: 184 Hilltown, Dundee
  • Occupation: Porter, J. & A. D. Grimmond Ltd, Dundee
  • Mother:
  • Father:
  • Siblings:
  • Spouse:

    Annie Bennett Taylor Geddes, 184 Hilltown, Dundee

  • Children:

    Annie, born 30.12.1906, Agnes, born 28.01.1909, William, born 26.03.1910, Joseph, born 16.06.1912 & Robert, born 22.05.1916

More about Joseph Geddes

Joseph has no known grave but is remembered on the Loos Memorial.

Joseph Geddes   1321   Black Watch

SHRAPNEL WOUND IN THE BACK.

Mrs Joseph Geddes who resides at 281 Hilltown, Dundee has received information that her husband, Private Joseph Geddes, of the 4th Black Watch is in Craigleith Hospital, Edinburgh, having sustained a shrapnel wound in the back at the Ypres charge on Sunday, 9th May.

Private Geddes has had some experience of military life, having served for a period in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, and has been a member of “Dundee’s Own” for four years.  Geddes is 37 years of age, and was previously employed as a porter by J. & A. D. Grimond, Ltd.

Dundee Evening Telegraph 20th May 1915

GEDDES___In loving memory of my husband, Private Joseph Geddes, 1/4th Black Watch, who was killed at Loos, on 25th September 1915.  –Inserted by Mrs Geddes, 184 Hilltown.

Dundee People’s Journal 30th September 1916

Additional information and image kindly supplied by Michael Caldwell

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