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Charles Duncan

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Military Information

  • Date of enlistment:
  • Place of enlistment: Alyth
  • Service no: S/6294
  • Rank: Lance Corporal
  • Service Occupation:
  • Awards:
  • Regiment/Service: Black Watch
  • Unit/Ship: 8th Battalion,
  • Place of Death: France
  • Age at Death: 31
  • Date of Death: 25.09.1915
  • Burial Country: France
  • Cemetery: Loos Memorial
  • Grave/Mem Ref no: Panel 78 to 83

Personal Information

  • Date of Birth:
  • Place of Birth: Dundee
  • Address:
  • Occupation:
  • Mother:

    Jane Gellatly Duncan

  • Father:

    James Duncan

  • Siblings:

    James Duncan

  • Spouse:
  • Children:

More about Charles Duncan

For reasons unknown Charles is not listed on the original Dundee Roll of Honour.

Charles Duncan   S/6294   Black Watch

GLENISLA SOLDIER WOUNDED.

Intelligence has been received in Glenisla that Private Charles Duncan, 8th Black Watch, has been wounded in action in France.  The information was conveyed to his relatives in a letter received from a comrade of the wounded man.  Previous to enlisting Private Duncan assisted his brother, who rents the farm of Crandart, Glenisla.

Kirriemuir Free Press 22nd October 1915

Glenisla Soldier Presumed Killed.

Official intimation has been received by Mr James Duncan, Crandart, that his brother, Lance-Corporal Charles Duncan, Black Watch, must now be presumed to have been killed in action. Lance-Corporal Duncan who joined the colours shortly after the outbreak of war, was posted as missing after the battle of Loos in September, 1915.

Kirriemuir Free Press 26th January 1917

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

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