Great War Dundee
This is Dundee's story of those that served in the First World War, and of the people left at home
Joseph Lynch
Military Information
- Date of enlistment:
- Place of enlistment:
- Service no: 1798
- Rank: Private
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- Regiment/Service: Black Watch
- Unit/Ship: 2nd Battalion
Personal Information
- Date of Birth: 1894
- Place of Birth:
- Address: 44 Whorterbank, Lochee, Dundee
- Occupation:
- Mother:
- Father:
J. Lynch, 44 Whorterbank, Lochee, Dundee
- Siblings:
Patrick
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More about Joseph Lynch
- Lynch Black Watch
DUNDEE SOLDIER A VICTIM OF FROSTBITE.
Intimation was yesterday received by Mr J. Lynch, 44 Whorterbank, Lochee, that his son, Private J. Lynch 2d Black Watch, has been invalided home suffering from frostbite, to a Manchester hospital.
Private Lynch has seen five years previous service, and left Bombay for the front with the second Indian contingent. Last week a letter was received from him, in which he states that the Germans on all hands are being shot down like ninepins ; that the majority of those he has encountered are mere schoolboys, and that when they realise themselves to be in a tight corner they say, “Don’t kill us ; we are driven to this.
Dundee Courier 10th December 1914
This man is believed to be the brother of Pte Patrick Lynch, 14078, 11th Company, Army Cyclist Corps.
Information and image kindly supplied by Michael Caldwell
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