More about Gilbert Masterton

For reasons unknown this man is not listed on the original Dundee Roll of Honour, but is remembered on Dundee’s Harris Academy Honour Roll, Carnoustie War Memorial and Panbride Church War Memorial.

Gilbert was the brother of Able Seaman Forbes Masterton, Z/654, 189th Brigade, Machine Gun Corps, Royal Naval Division, who was killed in action 24.04.1917.

Gilbert Masterton   2583   4th Black Watch

WELL-KNOWN MEMBER OF DUNDEE CORINTHIAN B.C. KILLED.

Private Gilbert Masterton, who resided at 8 Willow Park, Carnoustie, was killed in action on 9th May.  The official intimation was received by his relatives yesterday.

Writing home, a companion of Private Masterton says:–“I am very sorry to tell you Gilbert Masterton has been killed.  There was an attack on, and the Fourth were in it.  Masterton, I hear, was first over the parapet, and he was killed with a machine gun.  It was a bad knock out for me when I heard about.  I did not know until the next day when the battalion had come out to the reserve trenches.  I took a walk up to see if he was all right, only to be told that he had been killed.  It will be a very long time before I will be able to get over his death.  A better chap never walked, and I miss him at every turn.

Lieutenant C. B. Sheriff, writing to deceased’s mother, says:–“It is my painful duty to have to inform you of the death of your son, Private G. Masterton, who was killed in action on Sunday 9th May.  He made numerous friends in the platoon, and those, along with others in the same company, mourn his loss.  I beg to tender my deepest sympathy to you in the sad bereavement.”  Private Masterton, who joined the 4th Black Watch at the outbreak of the war, was clerk in the office of Barron & Company, jute merchants, Dundee.  He was an enthusiastic member of the Corinthian Bowling Club.  He was 22 years of age.  A brother—Forbes Masterton—is in the Naval Division, and was recently wounded in the Dardanelles.

Dundee Courier 27th May 1915