In Memory Of

NIVEN, WILLIAM ADAM MACKIE

Service Details
Age:
 22
Date of Birth:
 -0001-11-30
Rank:
 Second Lieutenant
Unit:
 29th Sqdn.
Regiment:
 Royal Flying Corps
Former Regiment:
 formerly Transvaal Scottish
Date of Death:
 1916-10-28
Cause of Death:
 Killed whilst flying
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
 VIII. A. 5.
Cemetery:
 HABARCQ COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
Localitly:
 Pas de Calais
Country:
 France
Additional Information
Son of Adam Young Niven and Gertrude Elizabeth Niven (nee Dodds), of Johannesburg, South Africa. Also served in German West Africa in 1914/1915. Educated from 1908 to 1912 at Hilton College, Natal, and 1913 at Jeppe High School, Johannesburg, Transvaal where he matriculated. He was one of the School's most prominent runners. When the war broke out he was studying at the School of Mines. On Jeppe High School for Boys Roll of Honour