Will, James
Rank: Private
Regiment: 4th Battalion Gordon Highlanders
Biography: Son of John M. Will, stationmaster ; born Newmill, Kincardineshire, 1 October 1894. After a good scholastic record at Mackie Academy, Stonehaven, he matriculated in Arts in 1913. He joined the University Company of the 4th Gordons in his first term, and on the outbreak of war proceeded with his Battalion to Bedford, where he became attached to the transport section. For three years he did good work in this department under many trying circumstances in Belgium and France, and was killed on 5 August 1917 by a bomb from an enemy aeroplane.
Date of Death: 05 August 1917
Burial Details: Buried at Gwalia Cemetery, Poperinghe, Plot 1, Row F, Grave 3.
Publication: Roll of Service, edited by Mabel Desborough Allardyce. Published 1921.
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