George Prain

Military Information

  • Date of enlistment:
  • Place of enlistment: Kirkaldy
  • Service no: 345289
  • Rank: Lance Corporal
  • Service Occupation:
  • Awards:
  • Regiment/Service: Black Watch
  • Unit/Ship: 14th Battalion
  • Place of Death: Israel/Palestine
  • Age at Death:
  • Date of Death: 06/11/1917
  • Burial Country: Israel and Palestine (including Gaza)
  • Cemetery: Beersheba War Cemetery
  • Grave/Mem Ref no: L. 32.

Personal Information

  • Date of Birth:
  • Place of Birth: Dundee
  • Address: 1 Marshall St, Lochee, Dundee
  • Occupation:
  • Mother:

    Elizabeth Prain

  • Father:

    George Prain, 101 Americanmuir Rd, Dundee

  • Siblings:
  • Spouse:
  • Children:

More about George Prain

Formally Fife & Forfar Yeomanry, 2373.

George Prain   345289   Black Watch

PRAIN– Killed in action, on 6th November, Lance-Corporal George Prain, F. and F. Yeomanry, 14th Royal Highlanders, eldest son of George Prain, 19 Gray’s Lane, Lochee. – Inserted by his parents, sisters and brothers, 19 Gray’s Lane, Lochee.

Dundee People’s Journal 8th December 1917

Additional information kindly supplied by Michael Caldwell

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