The Scottish Military Research Group - Commemorations Project

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This memorial is located in the Rutherglen West & Wardlawhill Church.


TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN MEMORY OF
The Rev. WILLIAM D.T. BLACK M.A.
Minister of This Church, 1913 – 1917
Chaplain, 7th Batt. Cameron Highlanders
Killed in Action Near Poperinghe in Flanders
22nd August 1917
Also of The Men Connected With The Church
Who Gave Their Lives in The Great War 1914 -1918
“Greater Love Hath No Man Than This”

Name: BLACK, The Rev. WILLIAM DUNCAN T.
Initials: W D T
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Chaplain 4th Class
Regiment/Service: Army Chaplains' Department
Age: 36
Date of Death: 22/08/1917
Additional information: Husband of Jenny L. Black, of 10, Leven St., Pollokshields, Glasgow.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: II. A. 18.
Cemetery: BRANDHOEK NEW MILITARY CEMETERY No.3, BELGIUM.


John

[anne park]

Parents: William Black, Elizabeth Bain Cochran
Spouse: Janet Liddel Cunningham
Details from Ancestry.
Anne

[Mike Morley]

He is also commemorated on Rutherglen War Memorial, Trinity College Glasgow, Glasgow Academy and the University of Glasgow Memorial Chapel.

A short biographical note about the Rev Black can be found on the University of Glasgow Roll of Honour: https://universitystory.gla.ac.uk/ww1-biography/?id=1448.