Meiklejohn K F Lt 1st Cameron Highlanders

Meiklejohn K F Lt 1st Cameron Highlanders

LIEUTENANT K. F. MEIKLEJOHN

IST BATTALION THE QUEEN’S OWN CAMERON HIGHLANDERS

KENNETH FORBES MEIKLEJOHN Was the second son of Lieutenant-Colonel John Forbes Meiklejohn, late R.H.A., and of Edith Mary his wife. He entered the School in 1899, passed 3rd into the R.M.C., Sandhurst, was gazetted to the Ist Battalion Cameron Highlanders in February, 1904, became Adjutant of the Battalion in 1913, and left for the Front on August 12th, 1914.

He had qualified as Ist Class Interpreter in Russian and French.

He was killed on September 25th, 1914, at the Battle of the Aisne, near Verneuil, by a shell which fell on the cave used for the time being as Head-quarters and caused the roof to fall in. Age 29.

He married, in 1914, Sybil Maud, only daughter of J. C. Stewart, of Kinlochmoidart, Inverness-shire, and left a son, born in January, 1915.

Source : Memorials Of Rugbeians Who Fell In The Great War Vol 1

Meiklejohn K F Lt Cameron Highlanders

Source : he Sphere 24th Oct 1914

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