Alexander Barclay

Military Information

  • Date of enlistment:
  • Place of enlistment:
  • Service no: 345222
  • Rank: Private
  • Service Occupation:
  • Awards:
  • Regiment/Service: Black Watch
  • Unit/Ship: 14th Battalion
  • Place of Death: 3 Lorne St, Lochee, Dundee
  • Age at Death: 23
  • Date of Death: 01.03.1919
  • Burial Country:
  • Cemetery: United Kingdom Book of Remembrence
  • Grave/Mem Ref no:

Personal Information

  • Date of Birth:
  • Place of Birth:
  • Address: 8 Lorne St, Lochee
  • Occupation: Postal Worker
  • Mother:

    Jane Barclay, 8 Lorne St, Lochee, Dundee

  • Father:

    Peter Barclay, 8 Lorne St, Lochee, Dundee

  • Siblings:
  • Spouse:
  • Children:

More about Alexander Barclay

For reasons unknown this man is not listed on the original Dundee Roll of Honour, but is remembered on the Dundee & District Postal Service Memorial.

Alexander Barclay   345222   Fife and Forfar Yeomanry attached Black Watch

BARCLAY―At 3 Lorne Street, Lochee, on 1st March, of pneumonia, Private Alexander Barclay aged 23, of 1st Fife and Forfar Yeomanry (attached 14th Black Watch), and of Post Office staff, Dundee, youngest and beloved son of Mr and Mrs Barclay.

Dundee Evening Telegraph 3rd March 1919

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

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