King, David Melville

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Category: 1918-19

David Melville King

Rhodesian Regiment

2nd Rhodesian Regiment
He is remembered with honour on the Larchfield School memorial and Helensburgh War Memorial, Column 4 Line 6.

The family home was at Auchengower, Cove, Loch Long.
The son of John and Isabella McFarlane-Colville King.
Siblings: David had two brothers, John was in a reserved occupation and Douglas, who died in France in 1917.

Douglas King was born at Auchengower, Cove, on Loch Long. His father was an accountant with Glasgow University.
He attended Colquhoun Villa School and Larchfield School before going to Glasgow University to study Medicine. He graduated with M.B ChB in August, 1914. During his study time he was a member of the University Training Corps and the Officer’s Reserve.
Douglas enlisted in the Royal Army Medical Corps attached to the 74th Field Ambulance. He was mentioned in despatches in 1915 and was awarded the Military Cross on the 1st June, 1917, only 6 days before his death. He was killed in action aged 27 years.