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Arthur Boase (1833–1852) was born in Dundee and educated at Glenalmond College. [11] His grandson Captain Edgar Leslie Boase was killed at High Wood in the First World War serving with the 4th battalion Black Watch. He stood as the Unionist candidate against Churchill in the 1915 election in Dundee. [12]
After service with the Gordon Highlanders during the Second Boer War, [7] Crumley served as a sergeant in the Black Watch during the First World War and saw action on the Western Front and at Salonika. [8] He ended the war in the Labour Corps. [7] Crumley received a war pension for malaria and rheumatism. [7]
This list of wars by death toll includes all deaths directly or indirectly caused by the deadliest wars in history. These numbers encompass the deaths of military personnel resulting directly from battles or other wartime actions, as well as wartime or war-related civilian deaths, often caused by war-induced epidemics , famines , or genocides .
Joseph Johnston Lee (1876–1949) was a Scottish journalist, artist and poet, who chronicled life in the trenches and as a prisoner of war during World War I.He is also remembered for his dispute with then poet laureate Robert Bridges over the literary value of Robert Burns' work.
Prior to his enlistment as a gunner in the Royal Field Artillery during the First World War, [1] he worked as a wheelwright at Royal Naval Dockyard Rosyth. [5] Halkett was killed in action in Pas-de-Calais , France on 21 February 1917 and was buried in Sailly-au-Bois Military Cemetery.
May 1777) Provost of Dundee, and his wife (and first cousin once removed) Helen, daughter of John Haldane of Gleneagles. He was born at Dundee . In 1746, after receiving his education in Dundee , he entered the Royal Navy on board the sloop Trial , under Captain Robert Haldane, with whom, in HMS Trial and afterwards in HMS Shoreham , he ...
Anderson in February 2005. Alfred Anderson (25 June 1896 – 21 November 2005) was a Scottish joiner and veteran of the First World War.He was the last known holder of the 1914 Star (the Old Contemptibles), the last known combatant to participate in the 1914 World War I Christmas truce, Scotland's last known World War I veteran, and Scotland's oldest man for more than a year.
The siege of Dundee, 23 August to 1 September 1651, took place during the 1650 to 1652 Anglo-Scottish war. After a two-day artillery bombardment, a Covenanter garrison under Robert Lumsden surrendered to Commonwealth of England forces commanded by George Monck .