GILLESPIE John Lieut

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Surname: GILLESPIE;

Forename(s): John;

Initials: J;

Rank: Lieut;

Previous Number: 66677;

Previous Regiment: Royal Engineers;

MGC Branch: Infantry;

MGC Unit: 18 (Ind) Bn;

Other MGC Unit Served (1): 128 Coy;

Other MGC Unit Served (2): 18 (Ind) Bn;

Date abroad: 11-May-1915;

Theatre of War: 1;

How killed: D;

Where: Iraq;

When killed: 09-Jul-1919;

Other Data: Age 30 (Feb 1915) Civil Engineer and Joiner. Enlisted RE Served (France) 1915 - discharged 24/10/1916 to Commsn (MGC)
Next of kin: Miss Margaret Gillespie (aunt) 18 Princes Street, Stirling.
Casualty Form: 20/5/1917 ex Devenport on "Durham Castle". 2/9/1917 Depot Amara from Base Depot. Posted 128 Coy MGC in field. 16/10/1917 joined in the field. 19/7/1918 1 months leave to Bombay via Basrah. 15/9/1918 returned. 6/9/1918 L Gazette - to be T/Lt. 6/4/1919 posted 18 (Ind) MG Bn. 3/5/1919 on detachment, Mosul. 27/4/1919 posted 238 Coy from 207 Coy. 7/8/1919 admitted 38 CFA w. malaria. 8/8/1919 dangerously ill. 9/8/1919 died (Malaria and Heart Failure) Kirkuk. Buried Kirkuk Cemetery. Mesopotamia.
Will: Gross value £5864.0.5d jointly, between M Gillespie & Janet Boag ( sisters of father).
Letter from Jeanie B Topping 36 Beaconsfield Place, Aberdeen 16/1/1921 stating that she was the fiancee of John Gillespie and referring to a list of soldier's effects;

Other Notes: J GILLESPIE Lieutenant 18th Coy., Indian Machine Gun Corps who died on Saturday 9 August 1919 .
Cemetery: BAGHDAD (NORTH GATE) WAR CEMETERY Iraq Grave or Reference Panel Number: XX. L. 11.
(Officer's Died - Appendix, p 266);

Related National Archives files: WO339/58804;

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