Name
Andrew Currie Begg
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
30/07/1916
36
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Captain
Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)
Adjt. 1st/7th (Fife) Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
SERRE ROAD CEMETERY No.2
V. G. 9.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Ware Town Memorial St Mary’s Church Memorial, Ware Christchurch Memorial, Ware Abbottshall Church Memorial, Kirkaldy St. Fillans War Memorial
Pre War
Born on 13 Oct 1879 in the Manse, Abbottshall, Fife son of the Rev. Bruce Beveridge Begg, D.D. and Magdalene Currie Begg of The Knowe, St. Fillans and a descendant of Robbie Burns. Educated at Kirkaldy High School, he married Kate Smith Barber in 1904 in Croydon and had seven children. He was a bank clerk and lived in Sutton, Ware Road, Hoddesdon in 1911 and later at Woodlands, Ware.
Wartime Service
Killed in action on the Somme during an attack in High Wood.
Acknowledgments
Jo Bayley
Malcolm Lennox
