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Harry Menzies

Harry Menzies


CWGC:

Rank: Second Lieutenant

Regiment: Northumberland Fusiliers, 23rd (Tyneside Scottish) Battalion

Date of Death: 29th April 1917

Age: 21

Commemorated: Arras Memorial

Additional Information: Son of Andrew Mitchell and Mary Stewart Menzies, ‘Kildean’, Hunter’s Quay, Argyll. Enlisted 1914.


SNWM:

Rank: Second Lieutenant

Regiment: Northumberland Fusiliers, 23rd Battalion

Date of Death: 29th April 1917

Cause of Death: Killed in Action


SDGW:

Rank: Second Lieutenant

Regiment: Northumberland Fusiliers, 23rd Battalion

Date of Death: 29th April 1917

Cause of Death: Killed in Action


MIC:

Harry Menzies, Corporal, 9th Battalion, Gordon Highlanders, No. S/7456, Second Lieutenant, Northumberland Fusiliers.

Commissioned (Northumberland Fusiliers) 2nd April 1917(?). Deceased 29th April 1917.

Medal Entitlement: 1915 Star, British War & Victory Medals

Address: (Father) A. M. Menzies Esq., ‘Kildean’, Menteith Avenue, Callander, Perthshire.


Soldiers’ Effects:

Second Lieutenant H. Menzies, 23rd Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers. Death on or since 29th April 1917.


London Gazette, 27th August 1915, Supplement 29278, Page 8617

The undermentioned Temporary Second Lieutenants to be Second Lieutenants (on probation).

The dates of appointment and the order of precedence of second Lieutenants are as now stated and not as previously notified in earlier Gazettes:  The Gordon Highlanders – H. S. Menzies. Dated 4th November 1914.


Scotsman, 9th May 1917. ‘Commissioned Officers – First List, Casualties reported under various dates.’

Wounded – Menzies, Second Lieutenant H., Northumberland Fusiliers.


Scotsman, 16th May 1917. ‘Military Appointments’

Service Battalions: Northumberland Fusiliers

Sergeant H. Menzies, from a Service Battalion, Gordon Highlanders


1901 Census, Living at ‘Kildean’, Douglas Avenue, Old Monkland Western District (Carmyle?)

Father Andrew M. Menzies, age 31, Jacquard Card Cutter, born Bannockburn

Mother Mary Menzies, age 32, born Doune, Ayrshire

Children: Harry Menzies, age 5, Scholar, born Partick

J. Stewart Menzies, age 3, born Partick


1911 Census [Index only] The Family were living in Dunoon, Argyll


Listed on Glasgow Roll of Honour: Second Lieutenant Harry Menzies, Gordon Highlanders, 4 Brunswick Lane.