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Daniel Ward

Argylls

1st Batt. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
He is remembered with honour on the St. Michael and All Angels Church Roll of Honour and Helensburgh War Memorial, Column 4 Line 52.

The family home was 21, Maitland Buildings, Helensburgh. The son of Mr Daniel Ward and Annie Lee, both from Glasgow. His parents married in Edinburgh in 1900.
Siblings: Daniel had one brother, Charles, and two sisters, Mary and Bella.

Daniel Ward was born in Edinburgh before the family moved to Helensburgh, where his father was a pipe maker and his mother a pipe maker’s finisher. His father died in the Boer War.

Daniel was a professional soldier, enlisting in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders in 1910. In 1917, at St Michael and All Angels Church, Helensburgh, he married Margaret Hattrick, a laundress, of 21, Maitland Buildings.

Daniel had been wounded in France and later fought in Salonika. He died of pneumonia in Constantinople on Christmas Day, 1918. He was 26 years old.

 

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