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Easson Dewar Lindsay

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Pte Easson J Lindsay and family

Military Information

  • Date of enlistment: 02.06.1915
  • Place of enlistment: Winnipeg, Manitoba.
  • Service no: 229348
  • Rank: Private
  • Service Occupation:
  • Awards:
  • Regiment/Service: Canadian Infantry
  • Unit/Ship: 44th Battalion
  • Place of Death: France
  • Age at Death: 35
  • Date of Death: 11.05.1917
  • Burial Country: France
  • Cemetery: Vimy Memorial
  • Grave/Mem Ref no:

Personal Information

  • Date of Birth: 07.02.1882
  • Place of Birth: Dundee
  • Address:
  • Occupation: Plasterer
  • Mother:

    Jane Lindsay, 4 Corso St, Dundee

  • Father:

    James Lindsay

  • Siblings:

    Charles, Frank, Frederick, John, & William

  • Spouse:
  • Children:

More about Easson Dewar Lindsay

Easson has no known grave but is remembered on the Vimy Memorial. He attested under the name of Edward Lindsay. Easson had five brothers who served in the Great War, three with the Canadian Army and two with the British Army, they were, Pte Frederick Lindsay, 229357, 4th Battalion Canadian Infantry, Armourer Corporal John Lindsay 106362, 1st Canadian Mounted Rifles, who died of wounds, 12 October 1916, Pte William Lindsay 922409, 200th Battalion, Canadian Infantry, Pte Charles Lindsay, 89337, 100th Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps and Driver Frank Lindsay, 56671, Machine Gun Corps.

For more information on Easson visit Easson’s Memorial and Easson’s Service Record and Circumstances of Death Register

There is also a reference to Easson in the Dundee Courier 20/10/1916 page 4, held in Dundee Central Library.

Information researched and supplied by Gary Thomson

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