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David Wylie Rintoul

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Lt David Wylie Rintoul

Military Information

  • Date of enlistment:
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  • Service no: N/A
  • Rank: Lieutenant
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  • Regiment/Service: Royal Army Medical Corps
  • Unit/Ship: Attached, 3rd Battalion Coldstream Guards
  • Place of Death: Belgium
  • Age at Death: 25
  • Date of Death: 21.10.1914
  • Burial Country: Belgium
  • Cemetery: Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres
  • Grave/Mem Ref no: Panel 56

Personal Information

  • Date of Birth: 23.05.1889
  • Place of Birth:
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  • Occupation: Doctor
  • Mother:

    Catherine Barclay Rintoul, 42 Canynge Sq, Clifton, Bristol

  • Father:

    David Rintoul, 42 Canynge Sq, Clifton, Bristol

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More about David Wylie Rintoul

Lieutenant David Wylie Rintoul, M.B., Ch.B. RAMC .
David was a Regular Army RAMC Medical officer Lieutenant, Royal Army Medical Corps and was Born 23rd May 1889 to parents David and Catherine Barclay Rintoul, of 42, Canynge Square, Clifton, Bristol. His connection to Dundee is professional in that he studied and graduated in Medicine at St Andrews University Medical School , University College Dundee, in 1912. with clinical work during and after qualifying as a doctor at Dundee Royal Infirmary
He is known to have been a Regular Army RAMC Medical Officer and deployed to the original BEF with 5th Field Ambulance RAMC in 2nd Division.when they deployed from their peacetime base in Aldershot in August 1914. 5 Field Ambulance RAMC was the unit which Arthur Martin Leake VC joined on 6 September 1914 and with which unit he was awarded his bar to the Victoria Cross, (a second VC), just a matter of weeks later. David therefore will have briefly served alongside him.
Having served that first month of the war with 5 Fd Amb RAMC he found himself being attached to 3rd Bn Coldstream Guards in the same Division. The Coldstream’s RMO, (Captain JL Huggans RAMC), had been killed by enemy shellfire whilst, along with others, evacuating German and British wounded from farm buildings which were on fire during the retreat from the Marne
David is listed on the 3rd Coldstream Gds War Diary return of officers for the end of September 1914
Only a matter of a few weeks later David himself is Killed in Action in the first Battle of Ypres, near St. Julien, 21st October 1914. He is commemorated on the Menin Gate in Ieper and the St Andrew’s University Roll of Honour.

Information and images researched and supplied by Jim Flood

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