Tennant C G 2nd Lt 4th Seaforth Highlanders
TENNANT, CHARLES GRANT, 2nd Lieut., 4th Batt. Seaforth Highlanders (T.F.), only s. of James Tennant, of Fairlie, Ayrshire, and formerly of Newcastle- on-Tyne, J.P., by his wife, Henrietta Grant, dau. of Alexander Andrew Fergusson; b. Lowfell, co. Durham, 23 July, 1882; educ Charterhouse, Godalming, where he was a senior scholar, and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was an exhibitioner; and on finishing his education, became a Director of the Tharsis Sulphur and Copper Co., Ltd., and of Alexander Fergusson & Co., Ltd., Glasgow, Lead Manufacturers. On the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, he volunteered and joined the Public Schools Battn. and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 4th Battn. Seaforth Highlanders, 1 Oct. 1914; went to France, 5 Nov. 1914, and was killed in action near Neuve Chapelle, 9 May, 1915; unm.
His Commanding Officer wrote: “After less than four months soldiering his name was sent to the War Office for promotion to Capt.; that fact shows what a born soldier he was. On every occasion that we were under fire he was always the same, cool and collected. He declined promotion, as he wished to remain with the men with whom he had trained.”
Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 1