More about John Terrence Macguire

John Terrence Macguire   D.C.M.  8893   Highland Light Infantry

                                                              94898   Tank Corps

SOUTH AFRICAN HERO AWARDED D.C.M.

Sergeant John Terrence Macguire, 2d H.L.I., who has been awarded the D.C.M., is a son of the late Patrick Macguire, china merchant, Dundee.  He served eight years in the Royal Munster Fusiliers, a regiment with which his father had been identified, and having taken part in the Indian Mutiny, Sergeant Macguire was engaged in the South African war, for which he holds two medals and two bars.  He was employed as a barman in Glasgow when war broke out, and he joined the H.L.I. as a private.  His wife lives at 2 Castle Street, Broughty Ferry.

Dundee Courier 15th January 1916

GALLANTRY’S REWARD.

DUNDEE HIGHLAND LIGHT INFANTRY GETS D.C.M.

In the long list of decorations announced the other day appears the name of Sergeant John Terrence Macguire, 2d Highland Light Infantry, who has been awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal for gallantry in the field during the great battle at Givenchy on September 25th.  Sergeant Macguire joined the H.L.I. in December, 1914, and went into the trenches on the first day of May 1915.  He previously served in the Royal Munster Fusiliers through the whole of the Boer War, being awarded the Queen’s and King’s Medals with five clasps.  At the conclusion of the war he was drafted out to India, where he was stationed for four years, when he returned to the city.  Sergeant Macguire is a son of the late Sergeant-Major Patrick Macguire, who in his later years was a well-known china merchant in Dundee.  He is also a son-in-law of Mr Peter Fagan, who has a large saleroom at 86 Overgate.  Sergeant Macguire’s wife and little boy reside at 2 Castle Street, Broughty Ferry.

Dundee Peoples Journal 15th January 1916

Sergeant Macguire’s D.C.M. story is related in the Dundee Peoples Journal of 29th January 1916.