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spoons · Posted: Sat Sep 18, 2010 7:58 pm Post subject: Alloway, Dill memorial

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Location in Alloway Kirk at OS Map Ref NS 333 180

This memorial is to two sons of the minister of the church

Name: DILL, ROBERT FOSTER
Initials: R F
Nationality: Indian
Rank: Captain
Regiment/Service: 129th Duke of Connaught's Own Baluchis
Age: 31
Date of Death: 11/04/1915
Awards: D S O, Mentioned in Despatches
Additional information: Son of the Very Rev. Marcus Dill, D.D., ex-Moderator of the Church of Scotland, of Alloway Manse, Ayr; husband of Margaret D. Dill. His brother John R. Dill also died on service and is buried nearby.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: XVII. B. 1.
Cemetery: CABARET-ROUGE BRITISH CEMETERY, SOUCHEZ

Name: DILL, JOHN ROWE
Initials: J R
Nationality: Indian
Rank: Lieutenant (Adjt.)
Regiment/Service: 69th Punjabis
Date of Death: 06/06/1915
Additional information: Son of the Very Rev. Marcus Dill, D.D., ex-Moderator of the Church of Scotland, of Alloway Manse, Ayr. His brother Robert F. Dill also died in action and is buried nearby.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: XVII. B. 12.
Cemetery: CABARET-ROUGE BRITISH CEMETERY, SOUCHEZ

Adam Brown · Posted: Sat Sep 18, 2010 9:07 pm Post subject:

I see both brothers are buried in the same cemetery.

From the Scotsman

15 April 1915
The late Capt. R.F. Dill
It is officially announced that Capt. Robert Foster Dill, DSO, 129th DCO Baluchis, Indian Army, was killed in action on 11th April. He was the second son of the Very Rev. Marcus Dill, D.D., ex-Moderator of the Church of Scotland. Having received his education at Marlborough College and the RMC Sandhurst, he obtained a commission in the Indian Army in 1904 and was gazetted to his Captaincy in 1912. On the outbreak of the war, his regiment, along with the Lahore Division, arrived in France and it has since then been at the front. In Oct., when fighting in the trenches, he was wounded, but in a few weeks he was able to return to his military duty. For his brilliant conduct on that occasion he was mentioned in dispatches of the C-in-C, and His Majesty bestowed upon him the D.S.O. Capt. Dill was married in 1913 to Margaret Douglas, daughter of General Pengelley, RMA.

9 June 1915
Another Son of Rev. Dr. Dill Killed
News reached Alloway yesterday of the death in action in France of Lieut. and Adjutant J.R. Dill, 69th Punjabis, Indian Expeditionary Force. Lieut. Dill was the third son of the Very Rev. S. Marcus Dill, D.D. Alloway, an ex-Moderator of the General Assembly. He was born on 3rd December 1889 and received his commission on 29th April 1912. He had been in Egypt with hsi regiment, and had only recently gone to the front. The intimation of his death was conveyed in a message sent by Dr. Graham Dill, of the RAMC, who has been at the front for many months. This second bereavement follows closely the death in action of Capt. R.F. Dill, DSO, another son, who was attached to the 129th Baluchis.

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