William Will Noble

Military Information

  • Date of enlistment:
  • Place of enlistment: Dundee
  • Service no: 1619
  • Rank: Lance Corporal
  • Service Occupation:
  • Awards:
  • Regiment/Service: Black Watch
  • Unit/Ship: 2nd Battalion
  • Place of Death: Iraq
  • Age at Death:
  • Date of Death: 14.03.1917
  • Burial Country: Iraq
  • Cemetery: Basra War Memorial
  • Grave/Mem Ref no: Panel 25 & 63

Personal Information

  • Date of Birth:
  • Place of Birth: Dundee
  • Address: 33 Kirk Street, Lochee, Dundee
  • Occupation:
  • Mother:

    Janet Saunders Noble, 33 Kirk St, Lochee, Dundee

  • Father:

    Donald Noble

  • Siblings:

    Jack

  • Spouse:
  • Children:

More about William Will Noble

William has no known grave but is remembered on the Basra Memorial.

William Will Noble   1619    Black Watch

NOBLE___Killed in action, Lance-Corporal William Will Noble, Black Watch, younger son of the late Donald and Mrs Noble, 33 Kirk Street, Lochee, and brother of Jack Noble, Oxford Theatre, Lochee.

Dundee People’s Journal 14th June 1917

Additional information kindly supplied by Michael Caldwell

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