More about Robert Ballantyne Dick

For reasons unknown this man is not listed on the original Dundee Roll of Honour, but is remembered on the Monifieth War Memorial.

20162 Pte. Robert Ballantyne Dick, 15th Royal Scots (Manchester Scottish) was one of several local men to lose their lives on the first day of the battle of the Somme.
The youngest son of Mr and Mrs Charles Dick, builder, Dunimarle, Dick Street, Monifieth, he was employed in the office of Gibb & Son, yarn merchants, Dundee.
He was killed in action on 1 July 1916, aged 20, and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France.

MONIFIETH ROYAL SCOT KILLED IN ACTION. Information was received on Saturday by Mr Charles Dick, builder, Dick Street, Monifieth, that his younger son, Private Robert Dick, Royal Scots, had fallen in action. A comrade writes that Private Dick had been posted as missing, but was later included in the list of those who had fallen.
Private Dick was 20 years of age, and was a clerk in the office of Messrs David Gibb & Son, yarn merchants, Albert Square, Dundee, before he enlisted shortly after the outbreak of war. He had been only about seven months in the firing line.
Mr Dick’s other son, Private Charles Dick, Royal Engineers, is at the front. The Courier, Monday, 31 July 1916, 4

On 11 February 1942, Robert Ballantyne Dick, a pilot with Bomber Command, died in a bombing raid over Brest https://losses.internationalbcc.co.uk/loss/106145/.?utm_source=email&utm_medium=email He was the only son of Robert Dick’s brother, the Private Charles Dick mentioned in this obituary.