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1st/5th Battalion Gordon Highlanders
 
Officers' Photographs

 

 

Anderson,  William Bruce
2/Lieutenant

Born Aberdeen abt 1889
Commissioned 1915
Died 7/4/1917

                                      

 

Bird, Percy Carr

Born [London] 1886
Commissioned 1907 (3rd Vol. Bn)

My thanks to Keith Hotchkiss, great grandson of Major Bird, for allowing me to use this photograph

Bruce, Vincent C
Lieutenant

Commissioned 13/11/1914
Died 26/3/1916
Age 27

 

Croil, George M
Captain

Born Milwaukee USA 1893
Commissioned 1915

 

Dunbar, John (Jnr)
Lieutenant

Born Fraserburgh 1897
Commissioned 1916
Died 1960

Ferguson, Robert William
2/Lieutenant

Born Peterhead 1887
Commissioned 1915
Died 134/11/1916
 

Forbes-Sempill, Hon.  Robert Abercromby
Lieutenant
 

Born Fintray House Aberdeenshire 1870
Commissioned 1914
Died 2/6/1915

Fowler, Andrew
Major RAMC

Born Broadiach 1853
Commissioned Surgeon Lieutenant 2nd Vol Bn Gordon Highlanders 1896

My thanks to David Ellis for allowing me to use this photograph of his wife's grandfather

 

Guthrie, Albert John
Lieutenant


Commissioned 24/11/1914
Died 30/6/1916
Age 25

 

Irvin, Thomas William
Lieutenant

Commissioned
Died 20/5/1916
Age 37

Lyon, Robert
Captain 

Born Aberdeen 1891
Commissioned 1914
Died 30/7/1916

 

McCulloch, John
Captain

Born Huntly 1886
Commissioned 1914
Died 9/4/1917

 

McHardy, John
Lieutenant

Born Inveramsay Chapel of Garioch 1886
Commissioned 1915
Died 24/7/1918 

 

McIndoe, William Reid
2/Lieutenant

Born Govanhill Glasgow abt 1889
Commissioned 1917
Died 6/8/1918

McTaggart, Maxwell Fielding 
Lieutenant Colonel

Born Aldershot 1874
Commissioned 5th Lancers 1895
Died 1936

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Milne, Allan Smith
2/Lieutenant

Born Aberdeen 1879
Commissioned 1915
Died 26/6/1917 

Mitchell, George
Captain

Born Fraserburgh 1888
Commissioned 1910
 

Napier, Egbert
Major

Born 12/8/1867 in Mold, Flintshire (Nth Wales)
Commissioned 1900 (3rd Gordon H)
Chief Constable for Norfolk from1909
Died 13/11/1916

My thanks to Steve Smith for permission to use this photo

Riddel, John Dean
2/Lieutenant

Born New Deer 1893
Commissioned 1916
Died 17/4/1917 

Roberts, Philip Hugh Gore
2/Lieutenant

Born 1896
Commissioned 1915
Died 21/8/1915

Robertson, Charles Thomas Andrews
Major

Born Peterhead 1885
Commissioned 1914 (Formerly Vol Bn)
Died 23/3/1918

Scott, William Leslie
Lieutenant

Born Peterhead 1892
Commissioned 1914
Died 16/6/1915

 

Smith, George A
Lieutenant Colonel

Born Achmar,  Aberdeenshire 1874
Commissioned 1900
Died 28/7/1918
 

See also Additional Information on Commanding Officers of the Battalion

Stephen, William
Captain

Born Fraserburgh 1881
Reinstated as Captain 1914 (Previously held Commission)

Died 13/11/1916 

Wood, John Bruce
Lieutenant Colonel

Born 1886
Commissioned 1914
Died 1927

 

See also Additional Information on Commanding Officers of the Battalion


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