Ure, William Alan

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Category: 1917-18

William Alan Ure

royal artillery

Royal Field Artillery
He is remembered with honour on Larchfield School memorial, Merchiston Castle School Roll of Honour, the Congregational Church Memorial and Helensburgh War Memorial, Column 3 Line 33.

The family home was Balvaird, 2, Abercromby Street, Helensburgh. The son of William Primrose Ure and Elizabeth McGregor Ure.
Siblings:  William had one brother John Regent who died in infancy.

William Ure was born in Glasgow before moving to Helensburgh with his family. He attended Larchfield School and then Merchiston Castle School in Edinburgh. He was a prefect at Merchiston and a keen athlete.
William had planned to join the family business, Messrs John Ure and Sons, flour millers and merchants, but enlisted in the Royal Field Artillery, and was commissioned into the 3rd Lowland Brigade, at the outbreak of war.
He served in Palestine in the B Battery, 262nd Brigade and was mentioned in despatches. William died, from wounds received in the Third Battle of Gaza. He was 23 years old.
His gravestone inscription reads: 'Loyal and Faithful unto Death'.