Urquhart, Rev. Alexander
Rank: Hut Chaplain
Regiment: Y.M.C.A. Service
Biography: Son of Alexander Urquhart, merchant ; born Aberdeen, 8 February 1865 ; educated at the Grammar School ; student in Arts, 1889-92 ; studied for the ministry at the United Presbyterian Church Divinity Hall, Edinburgh, 1893-96 ; ordained at Burnmouth, Berwickshire, 1898 ; translated to Boston United Free Church, Jedburgh, 1904, where he was minister at the time of his death. In November 1916 he responded to the call for ministerial workers in the Y.M.C.A. Huts in France, and was stationed at Rouen, where he served till February 1917. The excessive cold of that winter brought on disease, against which he struggled bravely, and stuck to his work till the end of his term of service. His health, however, had been permanently impaired, and he died at Oxnam, near Jedburgh, 29 June 1917, sincerely mourned by his congregation and his many friends.
Date of Death: 29 June 1917
Burial Details: Buried at Castlewood Cemetery, Jedburgh.
Publication: Roll of Service, edited by Mabel Desborough Allardyce. Published 1921.
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