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2nd Lt. Alexander James "Hamish" Mann

British Army 8th (Service) Batallion Black Watch

from:Red House, South Gillsland Road, Edinburgh

(d.10th Apr 1917)

Alexander Mann was born on 5th April 1896 in Broughty Ferry. Educated at George Watson's College, Edinburgh. Gazetted on 28th July, 1915 and drafted to France in August 1916. He took part in the Battle of the Somme and in the 1st Battle of the Scarpe. On 9th April, 1917, whilst leading his platoon he was seriously wounded by a shell and died the following day.

Hamish Mann was a poet and a book of his work "A Subaltern's Musings" was published privately by his parents in 1918.

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You may be interested in this - photograph of him in Bedford in 1915

John








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