Tennant, Edward Martin Cookes
Rank: Lieutenant
Regiment: 4th Battalion Gordon Highlanders
Biography:
Son of Edward Tennant, insurance secretary ; born Aberdeen, 30 August, 1896; educated at Aberdeen Grammar School ; had completed his first year of science at the University in 1914. Tennant joined the Grammar School Company of the 4th Gordon Highlanders in 1913, and was mobilized at the outbreak of war. He was in training at Bedford until May 1915, when he received his commission in the same Battalion. In September of 1915 he was wounded at Hooge, and spent some months in an English Hospital, returning to France in May of the next year. His death, on 16 September 1916 (amended to 16 October 1916, see CWGC), was due to wounds received in action at Serre, while he was in charge of a party covering a raid on German trenches. The letters written by his Colonel and his fellow-officers show the respect and affection in which he was held : "Always bright, willing and keen, always punctual and painstaking in his duties, and ready to do anything that was asked of him without the slightest grumble". "Brave without ostentation, thorough "without fuss," he was a favourite with men and officers alike."
Date of Death: 16 October 1916
Burial Details: Buried at Bertrancourt Military Cemetery, Plot 1, Row F, Grave 19.
Publication: Roll of Service, edited by Mabel Desborough Allardyce. Published 1921.
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