Name
William Duncan Hepburn
9 Jun 1883
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
28/04/1915
31
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Captain
Seaforth Highlanders
Attached 5th Bn. (Queen’s Edinburgh Rifles) Royal Scots
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Mentioned in Despatches
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
HELLES MEMORIAL
Panel 177.
Turkey (including Gallipoli)
Headstone Inscription
NA
UK & Other Memorials
Haileybury College Cloister Wall Memorial, Hertford Heath
Pre War
Born on 9 Jun 1883 in Hampstead Heath, London son of William Arnold and Mary (Duncan) Hepburn.
Educated at Haileybury College 1896-1900 and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst.
Gazetted 2nd Lieutenant on 18 Jan 1902, Lieutenant 17 May 1905 and Captain 15 Mar 1913. Served in South Africa and was Adjutant to the battalion from 10 May 1908 to 9 May 1911 and then appointed Adjutant to the 1/5th Royal Scots in 1912.
He married Marjory McKerrell-Brown on 8 Apr 1913 at St Giles’s Cathedral, Edinburgh and lived at 87 Great King Street, Edinburgh.
Wartime Service
He served with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force at Gallipoli from Apr 1915 and was killed in action.
Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazette 5 Aug 1915)
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Karen Smith - Acting Director of External Relations www.haileybury.com/honour
