The Fallen - The Battle of the Somme
The Battle of the Somme is particularly important in British memory: 120,000 went over the top on the morning of 1st July, of these 57,000 became casualties (20,000 of those died, most within the first 30 minutes). The battle was meant to be the big Allied push that broke the stalemate of trench warfare, bolstered by the influx of citizen soldiers recruited and trained in Kitchener’s New Armies. By the end of the campaign in November 1916, however, a total of over 1,000,000 men from both sides were captured, wounded, or killed and the war raged on for two more years.
Of the 755 University men and women who fell over the course of the War, one hundred and forty-five were lost during this battle over the course of four and a half months. These links will take you to their biographies on the WW1 Roll of Honour section of The University of Glasgow Story website. To keep up to date on centenary events follow @GlasgowUniWW1 on Twitter, and read Glasgow University’s Great War project blog.
June 1916
30th June 1916
- Private David Tindal, 17th Bn. Highland Light Infantry.
July 1916
1st July 1916
- 2nd Lieutenant James Gilbert Aird, 15th Bn. Lancashire Fusiliers.
- Lance Corporal James Lindsay Brown, 17th Bn. Highland Light Infantry.
- 2nd Lieutenant Robert Stanley Brown, 16th Bn. Highland Light Infantry.
- 2nd Lieutenant John Neilson Carpenter, 17th Bn. Highland Light Infantry.
- Private Thomas Arthur Cleghorn, 1st Bn./14th Bn. London Regiment (London Scottish).
- Lance Corporal George Edward Gannaway, 7th Bn. Highland Light Infantry.
- Major Edward Hutchison, 17th (Service) Bn. Highland Light Infantry.
- 2nd Lieutenant Donald Kerr, 1st Bn./14th Bn. London Regiment (London Scottish).
- 2nd Lieutenant Francis Ramsay Mackenzie, 2nd Bn. Seaforth Highlanders.
- Lance Serjeant James Cunningham McNaught, 17th Bn. Highland Light Infantry.
- Corporal Thomas Duncan MacKenzie, 16th Bn. Highland Light Infantry.
- Captain Thomas Middleton, 16th Bn. Highland Light Infantry.
- Captain Brian Desmond Mullally, 26th (Tyneside Irish) Bn. Northumberland Fusiliers.
- 2nd Lieutenant John Murdoch, 16th Bn. Highland Light Infantry.
- 2nd Lieutenant Robert Reid, 9th Bn. attd. 1st Bn. Highland Light Infantry.
- Private Robert Ritchie, 17th Bn. Highland Light Infantry.
- 2nd Lieutenant William Johnston Stewart, 10th Bn. attd. 9th Bn. Royal Irish Fusiliers.
- 2nd Lieutenant John Walker, 14th Bn. Northumberland Fusiliers.
2nd July 1916
- Captain Thomas Leslie Jackson, 9th Bn. Cheshire Regiment.
- Lance Corporal Andrew Shaw, 1st Bn./8th Bn. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders.
3rd July 1916
- Sergeant George Lammie Crawford, 15th Bn. Highland Light Infantry.
- Captain Andrew Donald Hutton, 15th Bn. Highland Light Infantry.
- Private James Pairman, 15th Bn. Highland Light Infantry.
5th July 1916
- 2nd Lieutenant William Harrison, 3rd Bn. Gordon Highlanders attd. 2nd Bn. Seaforth Highlanders.
- Private Robert Scott, 3rd Regt. South African Infantry.
6th July 1916
- 2nd Lieutenant William Galbraith King, 8th Bn. Royal Scots Fusiliers attd. 1st Bn. Royal Munster Fusiliers.
7th July 1916
- Lieutenant Montague Stevens, 5th Bn. attd. 1st Bn. Worcester Regiment.
10th July 1916
- 2nd Lieutenant Robert Kennedy, 2nd Bn. Royal Scots Fusiliers.
13th July 1916
- 2nd Lieutenant Gavin Boyd, 4th Bn. Royal Engineers.
14th July 1916
- Corporal James Crawford Robertson, 17th Bn. Highland Light Infantry.
- 2nd Lieutenant John Kemp Scott, 1st Bn. Royal Scots Fusiliers.
- 2nd Lieutenant Andrew Sturrock, 3rd Bn. attd. 1st Bn. Royal Scots Fusiliers.
15th July 1916
- Private John Brown, 9th Bn. (Glasgow Highlanders) Highland Light Infantry.
- Private William Kemp Low, 9th Bn. (Glasgow Highlanders) Highland Light Infantry.
- 2nd Lieutenant William Wilson Paterson, 9th Bn. (Glasgow Highlanders) Highland Light Infantry.
- Sergeant Charles Gage Watt, 9th Bn. (Glasgow Highlanders) Highland Light Infantry.
16th July 1916
- 2nd Lieutenant John Halley Gow, 1st Bn. Middlesex Regiment.
17th July 1916
- 2nd Lieutenant John Victor McLean, 9th Bn. Royal Berkshire Regiment.
- 2nd Lieutenant Andrew Christie Philps, 6th Bn. King's Own Scottish Borderers.
18th July 1916
- 2nd Lieutenant Harold Halstead Brown, 3rd Bn. attd. 1st Bn. Gordon Highlanders.
19th July 1916
- 2nd Lieutenant James Crawford, 7th Bn. Cameron Highlanders.
20th July 1916
- Private David Buchanan, 20th Bn. Royal Fusiliers.
- Captain William Henry Langdon Burgess, 3rd Bn. attd. 1st Bn. Cameronians (Scottish Rifles).
- Flight Sub-Lieutenant Ian Neil Carmichael, Royal Naval Air Service.
- Major William Grierson MacAlister, 5th Bn. Cameronians (Scottish Rifles).
- Lieutenant Donald MacKillop, 3rd Bn. attd. 1st Bn. Cameronians (Scottish Rifles).
- 2nd Lieutenant Robert Sergius Robertson, 1st Bn. attd. 3rd Bn. King's Own Scottish Borderers.
- Private James Dickie Young, 5th Bn. Cameron Highlanders.
23rd July 1916
- 2nd Lieutenant Mckenzie Fleming Turpie, 7th Bn. The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment.
25th July 1916
- Captain William Garrow Shand, Royal Army Medical Corps attd. 20th Bn. Lancashire Fusiliers.
26th July 1916
- Lieutenant Walter Buchanan McMichael, 1st Bn./7th Bn. Gordon Highlanders.
27th July 1916
- Lieutenant Donald Crawford, 99th Coy. Machine Gun Corps (Infantry).
28th July 1916
- Sergeant Archibald Lang, 17th Bn. Highland Light Infantry.
- Private Frederick Hamilton Pugh, 1st Bn./14th Bn. London Regiment (London Scottish).
30th July 1916
- Lieutenant William Sinnott Lomax, 3rd Bn. attd. 7th Bn. Royal Scots Fusiliers.
- 2nd Lieutenant Alexander McDonald, 9th Bn. attd. 2nd Bn. King's Own Scottish Borderers.
- 2nd Lieutenant George Hair Pagan, 1st Bn./7th Bn. Black Watch (Royal Highlanders).
August 1916
1st August 1916
- Corporal Alan Watt Izatt, 2nd Bn. Highland Light Infantry.
4th August 1916
- 2nd Lieutenant James Moses, 9th Bn. The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment.
8th August 1916
- 2nd Lieutenant Peter Taylor, 4th Bn. attd. 2nd Bn. Cameronians (Scottish Rifles).
9th August 1916
- 2nd Lieutenant James Hunter Lawrie, 3rd Bn. attd. 7th/8th Bn. King's Own Scottish Borderers.
12th August 1916
- 2nd Lieutenant Robert Brown Strang, 6th Bn. attd. 7th Bn. Royal Scots Fusiliers.
13th August 1916
- 2nd Lieutenant William Nicolson, 6th Bn. Royal Scots Fusiliers.
14th August 1916
- Lieutenant Robert McLay Crawford, 8th Bn. Royal Scots Fusiliers attd. 10th Bn. Highland Light Infantry.
16th August 1916
- 2nd Lieutenant James Cossar, 3rd Bn. Highland Light Infantry.
- Captain George Little Sommerville, 3rd Bn. attd. 8th Bn. King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment).
17th August 1916
- Private William Thomson Blakely, 7th Bn. Cameron Highlanders.
- Captain Alexander Russell Brown, 7th Bn. King's Own Scottish Borderers.
- 2nd Lieutenant Robert Brown Aitchison Macdonald, 9th Bn. Black Watch (Royal Highlanders).
18th August 1916
- Sergeant William Davie, 2nd Bn. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders.
- Private James Langlands Walker, 1st Bn. Gordon Highlanders.
19th August 1916
- 2nd Lieutenant Alexander Fulton, 13th Bn. Royal Scots.
21st August 1916
- Private Duncan MacGregor, 9th Bn. (Glasgow Highlanders) Highland Light Infantry.
22nd August 1916
- Captain Mathew Anderson, 9th Bn. (Glasgow Highlanders) Highland Light Infantry.
24th August 1916
- Corporal James Paterson, 1st Bn. Special Bde. Royal Engineers.
25th August 1916
- Captain Thomas Cameron Houston, Royal Army Medical Corps attd. 5th Bn. Cameronians (Scottish Rifles).
- 2nd Lieutenant Harold John Macrae, 4th Bn. attd. 1st Bn. Cameronians (Scottish Rifles).
26th August 1916
- Private John Hutchinson, 9th Bn. (Glasgow Highlanders) Highland Light Infantry.
- Private Robert Miller Stevenson, 9th Bn. (Glasgow Highlanders) Highland Light Infantry.
29th August 1916
- Lieutenant Arthur Lang, 6th Bn. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders.
September 1916
3rd September 1916
- Lieutenant Robert Wallace Lees, 7th Bn. attd. 2nd Bn. King's Own Scottish Borderers.
- 2nd Lieutenant Hugh Alexander Wyllie, 1st/7th Bn. West Yorkshire Regiment.
4th September 1916
- 2nd Lieutenant Samuel Wyness Hutcheon, 11th Bn. attd. 12th Bn. Highland Light Infantry.
5th September 1916
- Captain William Campbell, Royal Army Medical Corps attd. 156th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery.
9th September 1916
- Lieutenant Duncan Cameron Kennedy, 9th Bn. (Glasgow Highlanders) Highland Light Infantry attd. 47th Bn. Machine Gun Corps (Infantry).
12th September 1916
- Assistant Paymaster James MacArthur Philps, Royal Naval Reserve.
15th September 1916
- 2nd Lieutenant John Cullen, 13th Bn. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders.
- 2nd Lieutenant Joseph Fleming, 6th Bn. Highland Light Infantry.
- 2nd Lieutenant Dixon Park Seath Provand, 19th Bn. London Regiment.
- Private Charles Edwin Whittet, 7th/8th Bn. King's Own Scottish Borderers.
16th September 1916
- Captain Alfred Thomas Logan, Royal Army Medical Corps Special Reserve attd. 3rd Bn. Grenadier Guards.
- Private George Mann, "D" Coy. Machine Gun Corps (Heavy Branch).
- Private William Buchanan Robertson, 12th Bn. Highland Light Infantry.
18th September 1916
- 2nd Lieutenant Robert Henderson Shaw, 13th Bn. Northumberland Fusiliers.
27th September 1916
- Lieutenant James Barr Struthers, 2nd Bn. Otago Regiment, New Zealand Expeditionary Force.
29th September 1916
- Captain David Thomas Crichton Frew, Royal Army Medical Corps.
- 2nd Lieutenant Robert McGregor Middlemass, 7th/8th Bn. King's Own Scottish Borderers.
October 1916
2nd October 1916
- Lieutenant Walter Douglas Miller, 15th Squadron Royal Flying Corps and 120th Clyde Bty. Royal Garrison Artillery.
4th October 1916
- 2nd Lieutenant Robert Main Graham, 10th Bn. Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment).
7th October 1916
- 2nd Lieutenant John MacGregor Miller, 167th Coy. Machine Gun Corps (Infantry).
8th October 1916
- Captain Ian (John) MacKinnon, 43rd Bn. (Manitoba Regiment) Canadian Infantry attd. 9th Coy. Canadian Machine Gun Corps.
12th October 1916
- 2nd Lieutenant John Steele Allan, 9th Bn. attd. 2nd Bn. Royal Scottish Fusiliers.
- 2nd Lieutenant Thomas Houston Boyle, 7th Bn. attd. 2nd Bn. Royal Scottish Fusiliers.
- Trooper Angus Keith MacKinven, Canadian Corps Cavalry Regiment - Strathcona's Horse.
- Captain George Mowat, "A" Coy. 4th Regt. South African Infantry.
- Private James Ross, 7th Bn. Seaforth Highlanders.
18th October 1916
- Captain James Bell Foulis, 5th Bn. Cameron Highlanders.
- Lieutenant Graham Brymner Thomas Jardine, 13th Bn. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders attd. 5th Bn. Cameron Highlanders.
19th October 1916
- 2nd Lieutenant James Alexander Anderson, 11th Bn. Black Watch (Royal Highlanders).
- Lance Corporal David Wright Struthers, 6th Bn. King's Own Scottish Borderers attd. Highland Light Infantry.
21st October 1916
- Captain Thomas Drysdale Miller, "A" Coy. 8th Bn. Border Regiment.
23rd October 1916
- Captain Ebenezer Maitland MacHarg, 3rd Bn. attd. 1st Bn. Cameronians (Scottish Rifles).
- Captain Charles Mill Nicol, Deputy Assistant Director of Medical Services 3rd Div. Royal Army Medical Corps.
- Private James Gordon Rennie, 9th Bn. Cameronians (Scottish Rifles).
24th October 1916
- Lieutenant George Gordon Steven, Machine Gun Corps (Heavy Branch).
26th October 1916
- 2nd Lieutenant John Littlejohn, 2nd Bn. West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own).
28th October 1916
- Lieutenant Charles Gordon Scott, 3rd Bn. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders.
29th October 1916
- Captain James Anthony Boyd MacHarg, 6th Bn. Cameronians (Scottish Rifles).
- Private Douglas Fairley McGregor, 5th Bn. Cameronians (Scottish Rifles).
- Lance Corporal Robert Cuthbert Easton Moffat, 2nd Bn. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders.
- 2nd Lieutenant Allan Watson Cunnison, 3rd Bn. attd. 1st Bn. Cameronians (Scottish Rifles).
30th October 1916
- Lieutenant William Alexander Stuart, Royal Army Medical Corps.
November 1916
1st November 1916
- 2nd Lieutenant Edward John Howard MacIldowie, 9th Bn. (Glasgow Highlanders) Highland Light Infantry.
2nd November 1916
- Private Robert McQueen Pearson, 7th Bn. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders.
4th November 1916
- Chaplain 4th Class Reverend John Campbell-MacGregor, Army Chaplain's Dept. attd. 4th Bn. Cameron Highlanders.
7th November 1916
- Lieutenant John Ritchie-Brown, Royal Army Medical Corps attd. HQ 43rd Heavy Artillery Group, Royal Garrison Artillery.
9th November 1916
- 2nd Lieutenant Arnott Andrew Patterson, 43rd Heavy Artillery Group, Royal Garrison Artillery.
13th November 1916
- Lieutenant Patrick Joseph McCusker, 10th Bn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers.
- 2nd Lieutenant James McIntosh, 1st Bn. Gordon Highlanders.
- Lieutenant Donald Ross, 2nd Bn. Highland Light Infantry.
- Leading Seaman Charles Edgar Stirling, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, Hood Bn., Royal Naval Division.
14th November 1916
- 2nd Lieutenant Mathew Paul McLeod, 6th Bn. Black Watch (Royal Highlanders).
15th November 1916
- Captain George Douglas Chew, 3rd Bn. attd. 10th Bn. The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment.
- Captain John Ralph Couper, 10th Bn. The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment.
16th November 1916
- 2nd Lieutenant Richard Forsyth McGibbon, 15th Bn. Highland Light Infantry.
- Lieutenant Robert Fletcher Colquhoun, 13th Bn. attd. 15th Bn. Highland Light Infantry.
18th November 1916
- 2nd Lieutenant Frank Riddell Jones, 17th Bn. Highland Light Infantry.
- Captain James Scott Marr, 17th Bn. Highland Light Infantry.
- 2nd Lieutenant James Rome, 5th Bn. Highland Light Infantry.
21st November 1916
- 2nd Lieutenant Murray Mitchell Mackenzie, 10th Bn. attd. 1st/4th Bn. Seaforth Highlanders.
24th November 1916
- Sub-Lieutenant James Gibb Watson, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, Hood Bn. Royal Naval Division.
28th November 1916
- 2nd Lieutenant James Bennett, 129th Field Coy. Royal Engineers.
30th November 1916
- 2nd Lieutenant Gerald Joseph O'Reilly, 10th Bn. Lincolnshire Regiment.
4th December 1916
- 2nd Lieutenant George Alexander Lowe, 15th Bn. Royal Scots.
13th December 1916
- 2nd Lieutenant Walter Logan, 5th Bn. The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) attd. 1st/6th Bn. South Staffordshire Regiment.