{"id":7845,"date":"2025-10-13T17:03:42","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T16:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/?p=7845"},"modified":"2025-10-13T17:03:42","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T16:03:42","slug":"cargill-d-c-2nd-lt-mc-2nd-seaforth-highlanders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/2025\/10\/13\/cargill-d-c-2nd-lt-mc-2nd-seaforth-highlanders\/","title":{"rendered":"Cargill D C 2nd Lt MC 2nd Seaforth Highlanders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CARGILL, DUNCAN CAMPBELL, M.C.. 2nd Lieut.. 2nd Battn. (78th Foot) Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs. The Duke of Albany&#8217;s), s. of the late William Cargill. of Edinburgh, S.S.C., by his wife, Agnes Davidson (31, Scotland Street, Edinburgh), dau, of James (and Helen) Hunter, of Taymount; b. Edinburgh, 8 June, 1896; edue. View Park School, and Edinburgh Academy: volunteered for active service, and enlisted in the 10th Seaforth Highlanders in Feb. 1916; served with the Expeditionary Force in and France Flanders from the following Sept., returning home in Jan. 1917, to train for a commission; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 3rd Seaforth Highlanders the following July; proceeded to France in Sept., and was subsequently transferred to the 2nd Battn.: was wounded in Dec. of the same year, and invalided home, rejoining his battalion in France in June, 1918, and was killed in action near Pr\u00e9sean 2 Nov. following. after the taking of that village. Buried in Saulzoir Military Cemetery, nine miles north of Arras. He was awarded the Military Cross for conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty; unm.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source : De Ruvigny&#8217;s Roll Of Honour Vol 5<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CARGILL, DUNCAN CAMPBELL, M.C.. 2nd Lieut.. 2nd Battn. (78th Foot) Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs. The Duke of Albany&#8217;s), s. of the late William Cargill. of Edinburgh, S.S.C., by his wife, Agnes Davidson (31, Scotland Street, Edinburgh), dau, of James (and Helen) Hunter, of Taymount; b. Edinburgh, 8 June, 1896; edue. View Park School, and Edinburgh [&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-7845","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\/7845","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=7845"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7846,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7845\/revisions\/7846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}