Great War Dundee
This is Dundee's story of those that served in the First World War, and of the people left at home
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William Gordon Pender
Military Information
- Date of enlistment:
- Place of enlistment:
- Service no: N/A
- Rank: Captain
- Service Occupation:
- Awards: Military Cross
- Regiment/Service: Royal Flying Corps
- Unit/Ship: 40th Squadron
- Place of Death: France
- Age at Death: 30
- Date of Death: 15.08.1917
- Burial Country: France
- Cemetery: Arras Flying Services Memorial, France
- Grave/Mem Ref no:
Personal Information
- Date of Birth: 18.11.1886
- Place of Birth: Humbie, East Lothian
- Address:
- Occupation:
- Mother:
Annie Catherine Bennet Pender, Onich, Great Bookham, Surrey
- Father:
John Pender, Onich, Great Bookham, Surrey
- Siblings:
- Spouse:
- Children:
More about William Gordon Pender
William has no known grave but is remembered on the Arras Flying Memorial
WILLIAM GORDON PENDER
Eldest son of John and Annie Catherine Bennet Pender, of Onich, Great
Bookham, Surrey; formerly of Dollar. Educated at Dollar Academy. He
left in 1904. He studied engineering in Dundee before going to
Rhodesia in 1909.
Captain Royal Flying Corps 40th Squadron. He acted as an instructor at
home for some months and returned to France early in 1917. Awards:
Military Cross, 1917, for flying at a height of 500 feet three times over
his opposition’s trenches, enabling his observer to gain information.
Died 15/08/1917, aged 30. France ARRAS FLYING SERVICES MEMORIAL.
Also commemorated at Dollar Academy. Photograph: Dollar Magazine 1919, p91.
Information and image courtesy of Hillfoots, Armed Forces Fatalities of WW1 and Hugh Macrae
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