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dhubthaigh
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 Posted: Wed Oct 16, 2013 4:17 pm Post subject: STEWART DOW |
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Commemorated on Callander War Memorial, Perthshire
Dow, Stewart, Trooper, 1/1st Scottish Horse
No sign CWGC
(Part of) his Pension Papers survive on Ancestry
Regimental No: 3642, 1st Scottish Hussars
He enlisted at Callander in April, 1912 - previously an electrical engineer.
States: When at Creswell Hall, Northumberland in May, 1916 he was attacked by influenza and developed chronic cough. He was transferred to Class W of the Reserves and engaged in in munitions work. He then had an attack of Haemoptysis in November, 1917 and sent to Grampian Sanitorium (Kingussie). Discharged February, 1918.
Report states condition attributable to ordinary military service.
Disability for invaliding is given as Tubercle of Lungs and Otis Media
Stewart Dow dies 11th November, 1918 at Old Bank House, Callander from Influenza and Double Pneumonia.
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kinnethmont
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| Posted: Wed Oct 16, 2013 4:47 pm Post subject: STEWART DOW |
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Mark
Unfortunately the word Tubercule is missing from the DC details you give. This makes it unlikely to pass the initial checks. Influenza is not connected to TB and Spanish Flu was rife at the time.
Can you send me the DC ?
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kinnethmont
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| Posted: Wed Oct 16, 2013 8:57 pm Post subject: STEWART DOW |
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There is no case to put forward on Dow, he could have been perfectly fit and died of the Flu ( likely Spanish Flu ) at that time and Pneumonia.
Had there been mention of TB on the DC we would still have had to prove it was the same man.
There is nothing in the record to confirm that 150105 is the man on the DC.
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dhubthaigh
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Thanks for that.
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