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Robert Smith

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Robert's pension record courtesy of WFA

Military Information

  • Date of enlistment:
  • Place of enlistment: Edinburgh
  • Service no: 5723
  • Rank: Private
  • Service Occupation:
  • Awards:
  • Regiment/Service: Cameron Highlanders
  • Unit/Ship: 1st Battalion
  • Place of Death: Belgium
  • Age at Death:
  • Date of Death: 22.10.1914
  • Burial Country: Belgium
  • Cemetery: Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres
  • Grave/Mem Ref no: Panel 38 to 40

Personal Information

  • Date of Birth:
  • Place of Birth: Dundee
  • Address: 7 Lyon St, Dundee
  • Occupation: Henry Boase & Co Ltd, Wellfield Works, Dundee
  • Mother:
  • Father:
  • Siblings:
  • Spouse:

    Margaret Smith, 6 Morrisons Court, Dundee

  • Children:

    2 Children

More about Robert Smith

For reasons unknown this man is not listed on the original Dundee Roll of Honour.

DUNDEE HIGHLANDERS FATE.

MISSING AND UNOFFICIALLY REPORTED KILLED.

Mystery surrounds the fate of Private Robert Smith, a Dundee man in the 2nd Cameron Highlanders.  Mrs Smith and her two little children reside at 7 Lyon Street, and intimation has been received from the War Office reporting that Private Smith is missing, and the fateful words added, “but unofficially reported killed.”  There is however, a ray of hope, inasmuch as many men of whom similar reports have been made have eventually rejoined their regiments, or, at least have been made prisoners of war.  Private Smith was a reservist, and prior to the outbreak of war he was employed in Wellfield Works (Henry Boase & Co., Ltd.), Dundee.

Dundee Courier 8th January 1915

Information supplied by Gary Thomson, additional information kindly supplied by Michael Caldwell

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