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Gersham Gourlay Abbot   3/3520   Black Watch

DUNDEE SOLDIER’S LUCKY HITS.

Private G. Abbot of the 2d Black Watch, who belongs to Dundee, is in hospital at Brendall, near Norwich.  At Neuve Chapelle on the 18th inst. he received two bullet wounds in the right shoulder. The bullets have been extracted, but Private Abbot was very lucky in the location of his wounds.  The doctors have told him that had they been a little higher or a little lower the result would have been fatal.  Pte. Abbot left Dundee with a detachment of the National Reserve on 3d September, and proceeded to the front in January.  In civil life Pte. Abbot was an insurance agent in the employment of the Scottish Legal Friendly Society, and his wife and two children reside at 43 Cleghorn Street.  In a letter home Private Abbott states that in the fight at Neuve Chapelle the man next to him was a Private Gordon, who had come from India with the regiment.

Private Gordon was almost instantaneously killed.  His relatives reside in Nelson Street, Dundee. Private Abbot expects to be discharged from hospital about 7th April.

Dundee Courier 30th March 1915

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DUNDEE MAN WOUNDED A THIRD TIME.

Lance-Corporal G. Abbot, a Dundee Black Watch man, who was among a recent batch of soldiers admitted to Bellahouston Hospital, Glasgow, has been wounded for his third time.  On this last occasion he was hit in the thigh.  Lance-Corporal Abbot is a son of Mr and Mrs Abbot, 7 Stirling Street.  He is married and has two of a family, and his own home is in Lochee.  He was an old Volunteer, and at the outbreak of war rejoined the local Territorials.  On recovering from wounds on one occasion however, he was transferred into another battalion.  Prior to the war he was in the employment of the Scottish Legal Assurance Society.

Dundee Courier 28th July 1916