Slorach, Alexander
Rank: Lance-Corporal
Regiment: Gordon Highlanders
Biography: Son of George Slorach, police superintendent ; born Banff, 15 December 1894 ; educated Banff Academy ; student in Arts, 1912-14. In the spring of 1914 he joined the University Company of the 4th Gordons and went to camp with his unit at Tain that year. He was mobilized on the outbreak of war and was trained at Bedford. There he became a specialist, was attached to the Signal Section, and went to France in that capacity in February 1915. He served with the Battalion till 25 December 1915 when he was accidentally wounded near Ypres, by the bursting of an unexploded enemy shell which was being examined in his neighbourhood, and died next day, 26 December 1915. At the time he was due to join the 6th Gordons, where he had just received commissioned rank on the recommendation of his C.O.
Date of Death: 26 December 1915
Burial Details: Buried at Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, Plot 4, Row C, Grave 28.
Publication: Roll of Service, edited by Mabel Desborough Allardyce. Published 1921.
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