Teunon, James Mac Andrew
Rank: 2nd Lieutenant
Regiment: Royal Garrison Artillery
Biography: Son of James Teunon, Turriff ; born there, 22 September 1895 ; educated Turriff Higher Grade School and Gordon's College ; matriculated in Arts, 1913. He enlisted in the 2/4th Gordon Highlanders in November 1914 and was drafted to France in September 1915, joining the old "U" Company of the 4th Gordons with which he served till wounded at the Battle of Loos and invalided home. In March 1916 he was transferred to the Royal Engineers and again drafted to France. For eighteen months he served with the Special Brigade, Royal Engineers, taking part in many actions on the Western Front. His conspicuous ability earned him his commission and in June 1918 he was gazetted 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Garrison Artillery, but transferred in the following October to the Royal Air Force. He had just completed his pilot's course at Reading when he was taken suddenly ill and died in Queen Alexandra Military Hospital, London, 30 December 1918. Teunon had no liking for the monotony and routine of the soldier's life, patriotism had made him do the thing he loathed for the thing he loved—his death seemed specially untimely occurring as it did so soon after the Armistice.
Date of Death: 30 December 1918
Burial Details: Buried at Turriff Cemetery, Aberdeenshire, C. 549.
Publication: Roll of Service, edited by Mabel Desborough Allardyce. Published 1921.
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