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Alexander Charles Ross Kinnear

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Andrew Kinnear (right) with brother Alexander and mother Jean (image courtesy of Patricia Illsley)

Military Information

  • Date of enlistment: 06.11.1915
  • Place of enlistment: Dundee
  • Service no: 86210
  • Rank: Corporal
  • Service Occupation:
  • Awards:
  • Regiment/Service: Royal Field Artillery
  • Unit/Ship: 3rd/2nd Highland Brigade

Personal Information

  • Date of Birth: February 1896
  • Place of Birth: 4 Union Pl, Lochee, Dundee
  • Address:
  • Occupation: Clerk, Jute Industries Ltd, Bombay, India
  • Mother:

    Jean Mitchell Kinnear

  • Father:

    Alexander Ross Kinnear

  • Siblings:

    Andrew Gardiner Kinnear

  • Spouse:

    Ina Murray

  • Children:
  • Age at Death:
  • Date of Death: 1970
  • Place of Death: Fife
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More about Alexander Charles Ross Kinnear

Alexander Served in Mesopotamia in June 1915 and was in Basra, Suez and Palestine in 1917. He returned home safely in 1919. He married his wife Ina June 1926 in Carnoustie. They then travelled to Bombay, India where he worked as a Clerk with Jute Industries,before returning to Fife.

He was the brother of Pte Andrew Gardiner Kinnear, 88971, 14th Company, Machine Gun Corps, who died of wounds, 20.07.1917.

Information very kindly supplied by Patricia Lovatt

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