The Scottish Military Research Group - Commemorations Project

Kenneth Morrison · Posted: Sun Apr 13, 2014 3:54 pm Post subject: 2nd Lt. Samuel Wolves Hounam

Sam W Hounam is listed on Cannonbie WM, Gilnockie School and Dumfries Academy Memorials, on Edinburgh University Roll of the Fallen and on the SNWM:

Surname HOUNAM
Forename Samuel Wolves
Rank 2nd Lieut
Service number
Decoration
Place of birth
Date of death 2 June 1918
Theatre of death Home
Cause of death Died
SNWM roll THE BLACK WATCH (ROYAL HIGHLANDERS)
Unit name Unknown Unit attached to THE BLACK WATCH ROYAL HIGHLANDERS
Other detail 11th Bn.

but I cannot see him on CWGC. Help!
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Ken

Kenneth Morrison · Posted: Sun Apr 13, 2014 4:25 pm Post subject:

A bit more info:
Sam died at his mother's family home in Kildonnan, Stoneykirk, Wigtownshire of a brain tumour. He is shown as a medical student but there is no mention of any military service - so I assume that he had been discharged from the army.
He is listed on the Stoneykirk Parish War Memorial and, thanks to Julia C. Macdonald's excellent book on Wigtownshire Memorials, I know that he was born at Gilnockie Schoolhouse where his father, John, was schoolmaster.
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Ken

Kenneth Morrison · Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2014 9:58 am Post subject:

S W Hounam, 2nd Lt.
Discharged from Royal Highlanders
Address Kildonnan Stoneykirk Stranraer Scotland

Awarded Sliver War Badge No. 2530 on 1/11/1916.

Not listed in SDGW.
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Ken

kinnethmont · Joined: 19 Dec 2006 Posts: 1649 Location: Aberdeenshire

Ken

I will check this later. The surname rings a bell !

Can you send me the death registration?

Update - I checked him out a couple of years ago. He resigned his commission due to ill health, not caused by his service, in 1915

There is no link between leaving service and death three years later.
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Jim

If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

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Kenneth Morrison · Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2014 6:57 pm Post subject:

Many thanks, Jim.
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Ken

DelBoy · Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2014 12:09 am Post subject:

Well remembered Jim, he was one i ran by you 2 years ago.

HOUNAM, SAMUEL WOLVES (6. 1896).

Dumfries Academy. Student of Arts, 1914-15. Jardine of Tholieshope Bursar.
O.T.C. Infantry, Oct. 1914 to April 1915, Cadet L/Corporal. Royal
Highlanders (Black Watch), 2nd Lieut. April 1915. Died on 2nd June 1918.

DelBoy.