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

ARMSTRONG, JACK, Private, No. 11748, 5th (Service) Battn. (Lochiel’s) The Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders, s. of Henry Armstrong, of 32 Wesley Road, Ironbridge, by his wife, Mary Alice, dau. of William Oakes b. Ironbridge, co. Salop, 12 July, 1877; educ. Public Schools there; was employed in Tile Works; volunteered for active service soon after the outbreak of war, and enlisted in the Cameron Highlanders in Sept. 1914; served with the Expeditionary
Force in France and Flanders from May, 1915, and was killed in action at the Battle of Loos, 25 Sept. following. Buried where he fell. unm.

Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 5

STEVENSON, GEORGE, Corpl., No. 9137, B. Coy., 1st Battn. Cameron Highlanders (Machine Gun Section), 3rd s. of the late John Kay Stevenson, 41, Muirpark, Eskbank, Dalkeith, late Sergt., 2nd Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (died 23 Nov. 1915), by his wife, Jessie, dau. of the late Charles Graham, of Kirkcaldy, Master Painter; b. Eskbank, Dalkeith, co. Midlothian, 31 Aug. 1893; educ. Dalkeith High School; enlisted 4 Oct. 1911; went to France with his regt., and was killed in action, 14 Sept. 1914, at the Battle of the Aisne ; unm. Mrs. McLachlan, wife of the Col. Commanding 1st Camerons, wrote: “Tonight an officer of the Camerons has just been to see me, and I asked him about your George. He says that he was killed and buried on the battlefield during a lull in the fighting. He also said that George was a very fine soldier, and a great loss to the Machine-Gun Section.”

Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 1

Simpson A M Pte 14455 1st Cameron Highlanders

Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 1