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David Menzies

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David Menzies

Military Information

  • Date of enlistment:
  • Place of enlistment:
  • Service no: 17530
  • Rank: Air Mechanic 2nd Class
  • Service Occupation:
  • Awards:
  • Regiment/Service: Royal Flying Corps
  • Unit/Ship: H.M.S. Vita
  • Place of Death: Died at Sea
  • Age at Death:
  • Date of Death: 12.08.1916
  • Burial Country:
  • Cemetery: Kirkee 1914-1918 Memorial, India
  • Grave/Mem Ref no: Face B

Personal Information

  • Date of Birth:
  • Place of Birth:
  • Address: 74 Gray Street, Broughty Ferry.
  • Occupation: Chief Inspector, Dunfermline & West Fife Tramways
  • Mother:

    Agnes Gage Menzies, 21 Campbell St, Dunfermline

  • Father:
  • Siblings:
  • Spouse:
  • Children:

    1 Daughter

More about David Menzies

H.M.S. Vita was a passenger liner which was converted to a troop ship and then a hospital ship during the Great War, she also saw service during ww2, she was finally scrapped in 1953.

David Menzies   17530   Royal Flying Corps

FORMER BROUGHTY FERRY TRAM INSPECTOR

DIES OF SUNSTROKE ON ACTIVE SEVICE.

Mr David Menzies, a member of the Royal Flying Corps, has died of sunstroke.

Menzies, who belonged to Dundee, was for years connected with the Broughty Ferry Tramways, and was an inspector when he left to take over the duties of chief inspector of Dunfermline and West Fife Tramways when that service was instituted.

A year ago he enlisted in the Flying Corps, and was attached to the Indian Expeditionary Force.  His wife predeceased him over a year ago, and he leaves one daughter, who is nine years of age.  His mother resides at Broughty Ferry.

Dundee Courier 21st August 1916

Additional information and image kindly supplied by Michael Caldwell

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