{"id":6876,"date":"2025-04-17T09:32:29","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T08:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/?p=6876"},"modified":"2025-04-17T09:32:29","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T08:32:29","slug":"bethune-a-pte-8-29762-4th-seaforth-highlanders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/2025\/04\/17\/bethune-a-pte-8-29762-4th-seaforth-highlanders\/","title":{"rendered":"Bethune A Pte 8\/29762 4th Seaforth Highlanders"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6877\" style=\"width: 245px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Bethune-A-Pte-4th-Seaforth-Highlanders.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6877\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6877\" src=\"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Bethune-A-Pte-4th-Seaforth-Highlanders-235x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"235\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Bethune-A-Pte-4th-Seaforth-Highlanders-235x300.jpg 235w, https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Bethune-A-Pte-4th-Seaforth-Highlanders.jpg 707w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 235px) 100vw, 235px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6877\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bethune A Pte 8\/29762 4th Seaforth Highlanders<\/p><\/div>\n<p>BETHUNE, ALICK, Private, No. 8\/29762, 4th (Territorial) Battn. Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs, The Duke of Albany&#8217;s), eldest s. of Donald N. Bethune, of Corriegarth, Inverness, by his wife, Bessie, dau. of Murdoch MacKenzie; b. Tomalin, co. Inverness, 22 Sept. 1900; educ. Raigbeg School there, and Inverness Royal Academy; joined the Seaforth Highlanders 30 Sept. 1918, and died at Craigleith Military Hospital 13 Nov. following, of broncho-pneumonia. contracted while training. Buried in Drumtemple Churchyard, Stratherrick, Inverness. His schoolmaster ter wrote: &#8220;Alick was a favourite pupil of pupil of mine, and I can say, with the utmost sincerity, that I never met a more uniform and consistent character than his, who gave himself to all his school-work with such whole-hearted devotion and singleness of aim that I had splendid hopes of him, and that a great future awaited him.&#8221; Unm.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source : De Ruvigny&#8217;s Roll Of Honour Vol 5<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BETHUNE, ALICK, Private, No. 8\/29762, 4th (Territorial) Battn. Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs, The Duke of Albany&#8217;s), eldest s. of Donald N. Bethune, of Corriegarth, Inverness, by his wife, Bessie, dau. of Murdoch MacKenzie; b. Tomalin, co. Inverness, 22 Sept. 1900; educ. Raigbeg School there, and Inverness Royal Academy; joined the Seaforth Highlanders 30 Sept. 1918, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-seaforth-highlanders"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6876"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6878,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6876\/revisions\/6878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}