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Private Alexander Munro Dempster

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PERSONAL INFORMATION

Date of birth: 1879-05-21
Place of birth: Keith Scotland
Next of kin: Isebbela Dempster, 382 Rhodes Ave., Toronto, Canada
Marital status: married
Occupation (attested): Fireman
Religion: Presbyterian
Date of death: 1916-09-18
Cause of death: Died of wounds
Buried: Contay British Cemetery, I. C. 19.

MILITARY INFORMATION

Regimental number: 195
Rank detail

Private, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry, Infantry (Army).

Degree of service: Europe
Survived war: no
Commemoration location: Elgin

Images

Newspaper Clip entitled " 92 more " Princess Pat’s" have gone to Ottawa for their equipment.
Newspaper Clip entitled " 92 more " Princess Pat’s" have gone to Ottawa for their equipment.

RESEARCH INFORMATION

CVWM ID: No CVWM ID in our database, but try this.
CWGC ID: 81247
LAC ID: 345570
Attestation record(s): image 1, image 2
Service file: B2434-S036
Uploader's Notes:

Joined the P.P.C.L.I. in August 1914 [an Original]. Wounded near Courcelette September 15, 1916. Died 3 days later. Husband of Isabella Macdonald Dempster, of Coupar-Angus, Perthshire, Scotland. Prior Service: 8 years with Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders,served in Gibraltar,Malta & South Africa.

Uploader's Research notes:

Morayshire Roll of Honour: page 88: bod 25th May 1879. Son of Chales Dempster(deceased). Occ : Riveter.

The Scots at War Trust " Dempster, Alexander Monroe, Private, 1st Battalion Queens' Own Cameron Highlanders 1899 - 1903 and Private, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regiment) 1914 - 1916 number 195. Born Banff 1879. Enlisted for service in South Africa with the Cameron Highlanders, attached to 12th (Scottish) Mounted Infantry Battalion 1900 - 1902. Married Isabella Monroe Macdonald of Coupar Angus, Perthshire. Emigrated to Toronto, Canada 1910. One of the first 200 volunteers to enlist in Princess Patricia's Canadian LI in 1914 and sent to the Western Front. Died of wounds aged 37 on 18th September 1916 at the Battle of Flers Courcellete on the Somme and buried in Contay British Cemetery, grave reference I.C.19. Name submitted by his Great Nephew Duncan Alexander Macdonald"

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ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Date added: 2004-09-04
Last modified: 2014-07-07