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Frank Quarrier Aitkenhead


CWGC:

Rank: Private

Regiment: Royal Scots Fusiliers, 6th/7th Battalion

No: 11627

Date of Death: 4th September 1916

Commemorated: Thiepval Memorial


SNWM:

Rank: Private

Regiment: Royal Scots Fusiliers, 6th/7th Battalion

No: 11627

Place of Birth: Bridge of Weir, Renfrewshire

Date of Death: 4th September 1916

Place of Death: France & Flanders

Cause of Death: Killed in Action


SDGW:

Rank: Private

Regiment: Royal Scots Fusiliers, 6th/7th Battalion

No: 11627

Place of Birth: Bridge of Weir, Renfrewshire

Place of Enlistment: Glasgow

Date of Death: 4th September 1916

Place of Death: France & Flanders

Cause of Death: Killed in Action


MIC:

Frank Aitkenhead, Private, Royal Scots Fusiliers, No. 11627

Medal Entitlement: British War & Victory Medals


Soldiers’ Effects:

Aikenhead, Frank, Private, 6th/7th Battalion, Royal Scots Fusiliers, No. 11627. Killed in action 4th September 1916.

Mother/Sole legatee, Lily Aikenhead


De Ruvigny’s Roll of Honour, Volume 3:

Aikenhead, Frank Quarrier, Private, No. 11627, 6th (Service) Battalion, The Royal Scots Fusiliers, 4th son of Alexander Aikenhead, of City Orphan Home, 13 James Morrison Street, Glasgow; born Bridge of Weir, 3rd September 1897; educated at Whitehill Higher Grade School, Glasgow; enlisted in August 1914; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders and was killed in action at Martinpuich, 3rd September 1916. Buried there. Unmarried.


Listed on Glasgow Roll of Honour:

Frank Q. Aikenhead, Private, Royal Scots Fusiliers, 13 James Morrison Street, Glasgow.


1901 Census, Living at Kilmacolm Orphanage, Bridge of Weir, Renfrewshire

Father: Alexander Aikenhead, age 41, Sea Captain/Teacher of Navigation, born Kirkcaldy, Fife

Mother: Lily Aikenhead, age 37, Matron on Ship James Arther, born Montrose, Forfarshire

Children: Thomas Aikenhead, age 9, born Bridge of Weir

Alexander Aikenhead, age 7, born Bridge of Weir

Lily Aikenhead, age 5, born Bridge of Weir

Frank Quarrier Aikenhead, age 3, born Bridge of Weir


(Note: The spelling of Aikenhead/Aitkenhead varies between records)