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Gilbert Mathers

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Gilbert Mathers

Military Information

  • Date of enlistment:
  • Place of enlistment: Dundee
  • Service no: 241386
  • Rank: Private
  • Service Occupation:
  • Awards:
  • Regiment/Service: Royal Scots Fusiliers
  • Unit/Ship: 1st/5th Battalion
  • Place of Death: Israel/Palestine
  • Age at Death: 19
  • Date of Death: 19.04.1917
  • Burial Country: Israel/Palestine
  • Cemetery: Gaza War Cemetery
  • Grave/Mem Ref no: XXIV.E.15.

Personal Information

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

    David Mathers

  • Siblings:

    Mrs James Tait, 54 Main St, Dundee

  • Spouse:
  • Children:

More about Gilbert Mathers

For reasons unknown this man is not listed on the original Dundee Roll of Honour, but is remembered on the Dundee Orphanage Roll of Honour.

Gilbert Mathers   241386   Royal Scots Fusiliers

DUNDEE ORPHANAGE PUPIL MISSING.

Intimation has been received that Private Gilbert Mathers, Royal Scots Fusiliers, has been posted as missing.

Private Mathers, who was a former pupil of the Dundee Orphan Institution, had been in the army for about two years.  This is the second former pupil of the Institution who has figured in the casualty list this week.  Deceased, who was 19 years of age, had seen active service in Egypt.

Dundee Courier 10th May 1917

MATHERS___Previously reported missing, now officially reported killed in action on 19th April, Pte. Gilbert Mathers, aged 19, Royal Scots Fusiliers, youngest son of the late Mr and Mrs David Mathers.  – Inserted by his sister, Mrs James Tait, 54 Main Street.

Dundee People’s Journal 26th May 1917

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

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