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sammycat
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 Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2008 10:21 am Post subject: Major Hugh John Duff, Tain, Easter Ross |
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Name: DUFF, HUGH JOHN
Initials: H J
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Major
Regiment/Service: Cameron Highlanders
Unit Text: 10th (Lovat's Scouts) Bn. Secondary Regiment: The King's (Liverpool Regiment) Secondary Unit Text: attd. 1st Bn.
Age: 35
Date of Death: 06/09/1918
Awards: DSO, MC
Additional information: Son of Hugh Alexander Duff and Eliza Katherine Duff. [of Edderton]
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead Grave/Memorial Reference: IV. N. 11.
Cemetery: ACHIET-LE-GRAND COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
Individual Memorial at St Dufus Chapel, Tain, Easter Ross
At http://www.rchs.uhi.ac.uk/communit/index.html
| Quote: | THE LATE MAJOR H. J. DUFF, D.S.O., M.C.
Major Hugh J. Duff, D.S.O., M.C., Lovat Scouts, attached 1st Kings, whose photograph appears to-day was killed in action, as recently recorded.
Deceased was the only son of the late Mr Hugh A. Duff, Edderton, Ross-shire and Kereru, New Zealand, and of Mrs Duff, Kereru, Lossiemouth, and grandson of the late Rev. John Walker, St. Andrews, Lhanbryde. Major Duff was educated at the Tain Academy, Inverness College, and Edinburgh. For some years he engaged in sheep farming in New Zealand. He came home in 1914, and received a commission in the Lovat Scouts. He was awarded the M.C. for work done at Bourlon Wood, and the D.S.O. for work done during the retreat in March, 1918. He had been twice mentioned in dispatches.
Major Duff was killed instantaneously when in command of his battalion. |
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