In Memory Of

CURRIE, JOHN

Service Details
Age:
 27
Date of Birth:
 -0001-11-30
Service No:
 S/13378
Rank:
 Private
Unit:
 2nd Bn.
Regiment:
 Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
Date of Death:
 1917-06-24
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
 Bay 9.
Cemetery:
 ARRAS MEMORIAL
Localitly:
 Pas de Calais
Country:
 France
Additional Information
Son of James and Elizabeth Currie, of 174, Russell Rd., Port Elizabeth, Cape Province, South Africa. He left St Andrews College in December 1914 where he was a Senior Prefect, a Lieutenant in the Cadet Corps, Captain of the cricket XI. He was a 1915 Rhodes Scholar at Trinity College Oxford. Commemoration stone in Port Elizabeth (South End) Cemetery