The Scottish Military Research Group - Commemorations Project

Kenneth Morrison · Posted: Wed May 24, 2017 10:11 am Post subject:

CHARLES WAUGH.
Charles Waugh – age 27 – Corporal (S/2660) 2nd Battalion, Gordon Highlanders.
Charles was a clerk with the Caledonian Railway at Glenboig in Lanarkshire when he enlisted in 1914. He joined his battalion in France in March 1915.
Born 1890 in Canonbie, Dumfriesshire. Son of David and Elizabeth (Johnston) Waugh of Willow Bank, Kirtlebridge, Eaglesfield, Dumfriesshire.
Missing in Action on 4 October 1917 and named on the Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium.
Also named on the Eaglesfield District War Memorial, on the Kirtle Church memorial in Kirtlebridge and on the Caledonian Railway Company Memorial in Glasgow Central Station.
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Ken