Extract from the above publication - McWILLIAM, ALFRED DAWSON: Bombing Corporal, 1st Battalion Gordon Highlanders; son of James McWilliam, farmer, Garbity, Orton, Morayshire; born Boharm, Banffshire, 24 April 1892. He received his early education at Keith Grammar School and matriculated in Agriculture in 1908. He attended classes in the University for two years and then returned home to assist his father in the management Shorthorn herd at Garbity. In June 1914 he received an appointment as manager of a famous Shorthorn herd in the Argentine, but returned home in November of that year to join the Gordons. Me went over in January and was killed at Hooge on 13 July 1915.
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Born 1892
Died 1915
British Army S/7417 Private Gordon Highlanders
British Army S/7417 Acting Corporal Gordon Highlanders 1st Battalion