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PostPosted: Sun Jan 03, 2016 3:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Kenneth Morrison wrote:

LITTLE DONALD D. LT. LANARK YEO.

Donald Alexander Duncan Little – age 29 – Second Lieutenant: Lanarkshire Yeomanry attached to 14th (Fife and Forfar Yeomanry) Battalion, Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)
Formerly Private (21277) 11th Battalion, Canadian Infantry.
Donald's father was a superintendent in the Eastern Telegraph Company in the Middle East. Donald was educated at Dumfries Academy. He was working as a clerk when he enlisted at Valcartier Camp, Quebec in September 1914 and, with the 1st Canadian Division, sailed from Canada in the October. After further training in England the Division moved to France in February 1915. Donald was gassed and invalided back to England where he was posted to Officer Training. In November 1916 he was commissioned at a Second Lieutenant in the Lanarkshire Yeomanry and was posted to the 14th Black Watch in Palestine.
Born 1888 in Bombay, India. Son of Alexander Duncan Little and of Maud Amelia Brooks (Warner) Little of Telegraph House, Perim Island in the Red Sea. Husband of Sheila M. C. (Dillon) Little who he married in 1915 in Chelsea, London.
Died of Wounds on 22 August 1917 and buried in Port Said War Memorial Cemetery, Egypt.
Also named on the Nithsdale Amateur Rowing Club Roll of Honour in Dumfries.


This officer was born in India, enlisted in Canada, was married in London and his parents lived in the Middle East. On the face of it not much of a connection to Scotland apart from his education and his regiment. Presumably his parents were Scottish (or at least one of them was).

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PostPosted: Sun Jan 03, 2016 4:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hi Adam
They were in the area in 1901 - at Kenneth Bank Cottage in Caerlaverock, Dumfriesshire
Maud A Little 39 b. India (husband abroad Tel. Service)
Margaret O Little 17 b. India
Donald D Little 8 b. India
David D Little 5 b. India
Lizzie Thomson 49 (general servant)

and according to a family tree on Ancestry Maud died in Dumfries in 1942.
I seem to remember finding somewhere that her maiden name was Brooks-Warner and that she was from a McKenzie family but......
Alexander (the father) was born in Caerlaverock in the 1850's

I found it a bit ironic that Donald was buried at one end of the Red Sea when his parents had lived and worked at the other end.
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 03, 2016 11:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks Ken, there was a local connection too then. I did notice the Red Sea connection. I looked up Perim Island as I'd never heard of it before.

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PostPosted: Mon Jan 04, 2016 10:45 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Cheers Adam and thanks for pointing this out.
I've amended the original post to include a reference to Caerlaverock - which does make sense of him attending Dumfries Academy!
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