. Record of partners, staff and operatives who participated in the Great War, 1914-1919. ht Infantry. Gazetted 2nd Lieutenant on 3rd December, 1908;Lieutenant in 1912; and Captain on 1st September,1914. He was undergoing annual training with hisbattalion at Tinto, near Lanark, when war broke out,and proceeded in August to Southampton Dockswmere his company formed part of the Dock Guardduring the embarkation of the original ExpeditionaryForce. Responding to the War Office request forofficers to serve in West Africa he proceeded inJune, 1915, to Nigeria, where he served for a yearwith the 1st Ba
. Record of partners, staff and operatives who participated in the Great War, 1914-1919. ht Infantry. Gazetted 2nd Lieutenant on 3rd December, 1908;Lieutenant in 1912; and Captain on 1st September,1914. He was undergoing annual training with hisbattalion at Tinto, near Lanark, when war broke out,and proceeded in August to Southampton Dockswmere his company formed part of the Dock Guardduring the embarkation of the original ExpeditionaryForce. Responding to the War Office request forofficers to serve in West Africa he proceeded inJune, 1915, to Nigeria, where he served for a yearwith the 1st Battalion Nigeria Regiment (WestAfrican Frontier Force). He returned to the UnitedKingdom in July, 1916, suffering from malarial fever,and was not passed fit again until the spring of 1917,when he proceeded to France and was attached tothe 2nd Highland Light Infantry. He was wounded in the right thigh on 23rdMarch, 1918, at Haplincourt, on the Cambrai Front,and was thereafter passed fit for home service was demobilised on 6th February, 1919. Mentioned in Despatches, July, Capt. J. G. GRAHAM. 4th Highland Light Infantry. Wounded. Mentioned in Despatches.
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