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Thomas Dempsey

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Thomas Dempsey

Military Information

  • Date of enlistment: 1914
  • Place of enlistment:
  • Service no: 2666
  • Rank: Private
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  • Regiment/Service: Black Watch
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Personal Information

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  • Address: 3 Urquhart St, Dundee
  • Occupation: Mill Worker, Queen Victoria Works, Dundee
  • Mother:

    Mrs Dempsey, 3 Urquhart St, Dundee

  • Father:
  • Siblings:

    James

  • Spouse:

    Annie Bingham

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More about Thomas Dempsey

Thomas Dempsey   2666   Black Watch

WOUNDED IN TWO PLACES.

Private Thomas Dempsey, 4th Black Watch, is reported in the official notification received by his wife as having been admitted to the 13th General Hospital, Boulogne, but he is now lying in hospital in England.

He received shrapnel wound in the leg and a bullet wound in the head on 9th inst.  Writing from the hospital, he states that the wound in the head is not serious as the other.

Private Dempsey is 25 years of age, and he joined the Territorials in September last, having been previously employed as a millworker in Victoria Works.

Dundee Courier 29th May 1915

DEMPSEY___In loving memory of my dear wife, Annie Bingham, who died at Dundee Royal Infirmary, 7th February 1916 – Inserted by her husband, Private Thomas Dempsey, Black Watch, on active service.

Dundee Peoples Journal 9th February 1918

Thomas Dempsey   Black Watch

Wounded for the Fifth Time.

Pte. Thomas Dempsey. Black Watch, son of Mrs Dempsey, 3 Urquhart Street, has been wounded for the fifth time.  Private Dempsey, who is 25 years of age, enlisted in 1914, and has been in France since February, 1915.  Prior to enlistment he was employed in Queen Victoria Works (Victoria Spinning Company, Limited).  Mrs Dempsey’s other son, James, is on active service in France.

Dundee Courier 2nd August 1918

Information and image kindly supplied by Michael Caldwell

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