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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)