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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Alexander Stewart Blair
Military Information
- Date of enlistment:
- Place of enlistment: Dundee
- Service no: 9495
- Rank: Private
- Service Occupation:
- Awards:
- Regiment/Service: Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders
- Unit/Ship: 2nd Battalion
- Place of Death: France
- Age at Death:
- Date of Death: 25.09.1915
- Burial Country: France
- Cemetery: Cambrin Churchyard Extension
- Grave/Mem Ref no: C.5.
Personal Information
- Date of Birth:
- Place of Birth: Blairgowrie
- Address: 7 Hill Street, Dundee
- Occupation:
- Mother:
- Father:
- Siblings:
- Spouse:
Williamina Fowlie, formerly Blair, 7 Hill St, Dundee
- Children:
Lena, born 27.12.1913
More about Alexander Stewart Blair
Alexander shares a final resting place with Pte Thomas Paterson, 4/9431, 2nd Battalion Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders, who was killed in action 25.09.1916, who was born in Sauchie and enlisted at Stirling.
Alexander Stewart Blair 9495 Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
BLAIR―Killed in action in France, on the 25th September 1915, Private A. S. Blair, 2d Battalion Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. – Inserted by his sorrowing wife, Mrs A. S. Blair, 7 Hill Street.
Dundee People’s Journal 23rd October 1915
Additional information supplied by Gary Thomson additional information kindly supplied by Michael Caldwell
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