The Scottish Military Research Group - Commemorations Project

Kenneth Morrison · Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2016 7:05 pm Post subject: A Lance Corporal aged 15????

Ran across this man (Boy) - anyone heard of him?

A Lance Corporal at 15????
His birth was registered in Camlachie, Glasgow in 1900!

DEANS, PETER LYALL.
Rank:Lance Corporal
Service No:2465
Date of Death:30/11/1915
Age:15
Regiment/Service:Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) 1st/7th Bn.
Grave Reference:A. 37.
Cemetery:ALEXANDRIA (CHATBY) MILITARY AND WAR MEMORIAL CEMETERY
Additional Information:Son of Alexander and Christina Deans, of Central Fire Station, 33, Ingram St., Glasgow.

Ken
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Ken

dhubthaigh · Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2016 10:11 pm Post subject:

Ken,

He was discussed in a thread on the GWF. This, to me, is quite staggering.

Mark

http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=164749&page=2

jrah60 · Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2016 10:26 pm Post subject:

Ken,
From scotlandspeople

1900 DEANS PETER LYALL M CAMLACHIE GLASGOW CITY/LANARK 644/02 0816.

He was 15 when he died.
John

Kenneth Morrison · Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2016 4:32 pm Post subject:

Thanks for that Mark.

John - from the Mitchell Evening Times schedule
Deans Peter Glasgow Lance Corporal Scottish Rifles 7th 14-Dec-15 page3 with photo.
So the next time you're there and have a spare minute Laughing

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Ken

jrah60 · Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2016 4:45 pm Post subject:

Evening Times 14th Dec 1915 Page 3.

John

Kenneth Morrison · Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2016 6:49 pm Post subject:

Thanks for that John, and I now also know how to darken my gray hair. Both of them!
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Ken