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Persoonsgegevens
- MEIKLE
- DI
- DAVID IRELAND
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Longridge
- West Lothian, Scotland
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Longridge
- 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)
- Coal miner
Militaire dienst
- 1908, Royal Scots Regiment
- 43461
- Serjeant
- 12th Bn. Highland Light Infantry
- 46th Brigade
- 15th Division
- B.E.F.
- 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.
Overlijden
- Verlorenhoek, raid on Iberia trenches; shot while attacking the enemy trench.
- Did of gunshot wounds in head
- 25 July 1917
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- XVI - H - 10A
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