Detail victim

Name MEIKLE
Initials DI
First name DAVID IRELAND
Place of birth Longridge
Country West Lothian, Scotland
Last residence Longridge
Family Youngest son of Thomas Meikle and Elizabeth Lindsay, of Longridge, Fauldhouse, West Lothian; six brothers: John (1857), Alexander (1859), Thomas (1865), James (1868), Andrew (1869) and George (1873); two sisters: Jane (1855) and Agnes (1863)
Profession Coal miner

Place & date of enlistment 1908, Royal Scots Regiment
Service number 43461
Rank Serjeant
Regiment and unit 12th Bn. Highland Light Infantry
Division - Brigade 46th Brigade
Army - Corps - Division 15th Division
National force B.E.F.
Other data related to military career Previously served with the 8th Volunteer Battalion (n° 257), renamed 1-10 th Cyclist Battalion in 1908; listed as Sergeant in October 1914; placed with Home Guard with Royal Scots at Berwick upon Tweed until 1916. Volunteered to go to France in July 1916; transferred to the Highland Light Infantry in August 1916 and re-numbered as 43461; Somme area; hospitalised after trench warfare, rheumatism; returned to Front Line May 1917; to Ypres June 1917.

Wounded Verlorenhoek, raid on Iberia trenches; shot while attacking the enemy trench.
Type of wounds Did of gunshot wounds in head
Date of death 25 July 1917
Died at the age of 42
Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XVI - H - 10A