More about Robert Adair Peebles

Robert enlisted in Dundee 01.09.1914 and subsequently joined the Fife & Forfar Yeomanry. He was send to Gallipoli with his regiment, arriving there in September 1915. Whilst serving there he was wounded about 28.10.1915 from a gun shot and was invalided back to London for further treatment. Following his recovery he returned to Dundee February 1916 on leave.

In November 1916 he was transferred to the Kings Own Scottish Borderers and was sent to France in December. He was wounded for a second time in April 1917. According to family history it was a shrapnel wound although military records records both a gun shot wound and shrapnel. Due to his injuries he was discharged as medically unfit for duty in July 1917. Apparently he would continue to suffer constant pain from this wound for the rest of his life.

Following the end of the war he lived in Longforgan till his death in 1950. It appears that he did not rejoin the family business of Peebles brothers, which had several shops in Dundee, but instead became a fruit grower and possibly a vegetable farmer.

His brother 2nd Lieutenant John Adair Peebles, 9th Battalion Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) also served during the Great War but was killed 30.04.1918.