Great War Dundee
This is Dundee's story of those that served in the First World War, and of the people left at home
William Taggart
Military Information
- Date of enlistment:
- Place of enlistment: Dundee
- Service no: 3/471
- Rank: Private
- Service Occupation:
- Awards:
- Regiment/Service: Black Watch
- Unit/Ship: 2nd Battalion
- Place of Death: Iraq
- Age at Death:
- Date of Death: 16.01.1916
- Burial Country: Iraq
- Cemetery: Basra Memorial
- Grave/Mem Ref no: Panel 25 & 63
Personal Information
- Date of Birth:
- Place of Birth: Dundee
- Address: 7 Blackness Rd, Dundee
- Occupation: Labourer, Ward Foundry, Dundee
- Mother:
- Father:
- Siblings:
Hugh
- Spouse:
Isabella Taggart, 7 Blackness Rd, Dundee
- Children:
3 Children
More about William Taggart
William has no know grave but is remembered on the Basra Memorial. He was the brother of Pte Hugh Taggart, 2743, 1/4th Battalion Black Watch who died 19.11.1918.
C.W.G.C. list William as having died in Iraq/Mesopotamia, while S.D.G.W list him as having died in France/Flanders.
3-471 Pte. William Taggart, 2nd Black Watch, died of wounds on 16 January 1916. He was a reservist, employed as a labourer in the Ward Foundry before the war.
His wife and three children lived at 7 Blackness Road, Dundee.
Pte. Taggart is commemorated on the Basra Memorial, Iraq.
DUNDEE RESERVIST DIES OF WOUNDS. Official intimation has been received by Mrs Taggart, 7 Blackness Road, Dundee, that her husband, Private Wm. Taggart, 2d Black Watch, has died from wounds which he received in Mesopotamia.
Private Taggart was a reservist, and saw a lot of fighting with his battalion in France. Before the war he was employed as a labourer in Ward Foundry, Dundee. Mrs Taggart is left with three children. The Courier, Thursday, 3 February 1916, 4.
Information supplied by Gary Thomson
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