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Thomas (Ogilvie) Geddes |
Thomas (Ogilvie) Geddes
CWGC:
Rank: Sergeant
Regiment: Royal Scots Fusiliers, ‘C’ Company, 7th Battalion
No: 13506
Date of Death: 26th September 1915
Age: 24
Commemorated: Loos Memorial
Additional Information: Son of George and Jane Middleton Geddes, 18 Queen Mary Avenue, Crosshill, Glasgow.
SNWM:
Rank: Sergeant
Regiment: Royal Scots Fusiliers, 7th Battalion
No: 13506
Place of Birth: Aberdeen
Date of Death: 26th September 1915
Place of Death: France & Flanders
Cause of Death: Killed in Action
SDGW:
Rank: Sergeant
Regiment: Royal Scots Fusiliers, 7th Battalion
No: 13506
Place of Birth: Aberdeen
Place of Residence: Crosshill, Glasgow
Place of Enlistment: Glasgow
Date of Death: 26th September 1915
Place of Death: France & Flanders
Cause of Death: Killed in Action
MIC:
Thomas O. Geddes, Sergeant, 7th Battalion, ‘Sc’, No. 13506. Killed in Action
Medal Entitlement: 1915 Star, British War & Victory Medals
Soldiers’ Effects:
Thomas Ogilvie Geddes, Sergeant, 7th Battalion, Royal Scots Fusiliers, No. 13506. Killed in Action 26th September 1915.
Mother Jane S. W. H. M. Brothers William, George & Alexander. Sisters Jane & Mary.
Glasgow Herald, 18th October 1915. ‘Deaths on Service’
Geddes. Killed in action in France on the 25th September, Thomas Ogilvie Geddes, aged 23. Sergeant, 7th Royal Scots Fusiliers, youngest son of Mrs. Geddes, 18 Queen Mary Avenue, Crosshill.
Listed on Glasgow Roll of Honour: Sergeant Thomas O. Geddes, Royal Scots Fusiliers, 18 Queen Mary Avenue.
Listed on Queen’s Park Church Memorial: Thomas O. Geddes.
Scotland Select Births & Baptisms, 1564 – 1950
Thomas Ogilvie Geddes, born 7th June 1891, Old Machar, Aberdeen
Son of George Geddes and Jane Stewart Hutcheson Middleton Geddes
1901 Census, Living at 37 Finlay Drive, Dennistoun
Father George Geddes, age 51, Commercial Traveller, born Aberdeenshire
Mother Jane Geddes, age 53, born Banchory, Kincardineshire
Children: Mary Geddes, age 24, born Aberdeen
William Geddes, age 22, Clerk, born Aberdeen
George J. Geddes, age 18, Tailor, born Aberdeen
Alexander Geddes, age 15, Scholar, born Glasgow
Jeanie Geddes, age 12, Scholar, born Aberdeen
Thomas O. Geddes, age 10, Scholar, born Aberdeen
ROLL OF HONOUR OF QUEEN’S PARK PARISH CHURCH
Additional information received from his great-nephew, Ian McCracken.
Tom and the Middleton girls 12-07-1915
Born 7th June, 1891 at Old Machar, Aberdeenshire. Killed at the Battle of Loos 26th September, 1915.
Son of George and Jane Stewart Hutchison Middleton Geddes.
By the start of World War One, his family had moved to 18 Queen Mary Avenue, Crosshill, where surviving members stayed until the late 1950’s.
Thomas Geddes was killed at the Battle of Loos.
He was 24 years old and at the time of his death was a Sergeant in Company “C” of the 7th Battalion, the Royal Scots Fusiliers, Army Number 13506.
According to the Scottish National War Memorial website, he was “killed in action”; however, the story passed down through the family was that a former comrade who returned told the family that he had been killed by British artillery fire “friendly fire” as it is now called. His body was never found, so he has no grave but is commemorated on the Loos Memorial, and on the Roll of Honour of Queen’s Park Parish Church. http://warmemscot.s4.bizhat.com/warmemscot-ftopic6905.html&highlight=geddes
The medals he would have been due to receive were sent to his parents in 1922 with the letter below.
