Name
Malcolm Drummond
1894
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
10/08/1916
22
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
4495
London Regiment (London Scottish)
2nd/14th (County of London) Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
AUBIGNY COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
I. D. 59.
France
Headstone Inscription
"TILL THE DAY BREAKS AND THE SHADOWS FLEE AWAY."
UK & Other Memorials
Hatfield Town Memorial
Pre War
Malcolm Drummond was born in Auchterarder, Perthshire, Scotland, in 1894, son of Duncan Drummond a Farmer (B 1859 in Glasgow) and Grace Drummond (nee Gardiner) (B 1863 in Feordis, Perthshire).
1901 Census records Malcolm aged 7, at school, living with his parents, sisters Gracie 9, Harriet 3, at Westfield House, Auchterarder, Perthshire. His Grandmother Harriet Gardiner was also living with the family. His father Duncan was a Farmer.
By 1911 the family had moved to Suffolk. Malcolm was living with his parents, brother Allan 9, Sisters Daisy 8, Mary 5 and Isa 3, at Park Farm, Henham, Wangford, Suffolk, where his father was the farm steward.
His father died in 1913.
Malcolm Drummond worked in the gardens at Camfield, and was killed. I enclose a card from the head gardener about him.
Officially recorded living in Hatfield when he enlisted in London.
Wartime Service
Malcolm enlisted in London, posted to the 2nd/14th (County of London) Battalion The London Regiment (London Scottish), with the Service No. 4495.
He landed in France on 22nd June 1916 with his Battalion, at Le Havre. Malcolm was wounded in action and died of his wounds on the 10th August 1916. He is buried at the CWGC Aubigny Communal Cemetery Extension.
Awarded the Victory Medal and British War Medal.
Additional Information
The value of his effects were £2-17s-6d, Pay Owing and £5-10s-0d, War Gratuity, which went to his mother Grace.
Mrs. Drummond, St Mary's Lodge, Bury-St-Edmunds, ordered his headstone inscription: "TILL THE DAY BREAKS AND THE SHADOWS FLEE AWAY".
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Jonty Wild, Stuart Osborne, Christine & Derek Martindale, Hatfield Local History Society (www.hatfieldhistory.uk)
