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William Flight

Military Information

  • Date of enlistment:
  • Place of enlistment: Hamilton
  • Service no: 13958
  • Rank: Guardsman
  • Service Occupation:
  • Awards:
  • Regiment/Service: Scots Guards
  • Unit/Ship: 2nd Battalion
  • Place of Death: Belgium
  • Age at Death: 23
  • Date of Death: 19.04.1916
  • Burial Country: Belgium
  • Cemetery: Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres
  • Grave/Mem Ref no: Panel 11

Personal Information

  • Date of Birth:
  • Place of Birth: Moreful, Forfar
  • Address:
  • Occupation: Policeman
  • Mother:

    Mary A. W. Flight, Broom Hall Lodge, 3 Albert Rd, Broughty Ferry

  • Father:

    William Flight, Broom Hall Lodge, 3 Albert Rd, Broughty Ferry

  • Siblings:

    1 Brother

  • Spouse:
  • Children:

More about William Flight

William has no known grave but is remembered on the Menin Gate Memorial.

For reasons unknown William’s name was not listed in the Original Dundee Roll of Honour.

William Flight   13958   Scots Guards

BROUGHTY FERRY SCOTS GUARDSMAN KILLED.

Writing to the Rev James Burgess, Beach Parish Church, Broughty Ferry, Private Brand, of the Scots Guards, stated that Private William Flight, of the same regiment, had been killed.  He requested Mr Burgess to inform Flight’s father (Sergeant William Flight, of the Broughty Ferry police) of his son’s death.

Private Flight was in the Lanarkshire police before he enlisted, and was a gardener in Broughty Ferry previously.  Sergeant Flight has another son serving in the Lovat Scouts.

Dundee Courier 26th April 1916

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

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