Records Of The Men Of Lochbroom

9 - RECORDS OF THE MEN OF LOCHBROOM

1915

1494. PTE JAMES SPEED

4th Bn. The Seaforth Highlanders

Aged 20

Gardener at Dundonnell. Son of Mr. R. Speed, Bridge Cottage, Strathtay, Perthshire.

Enlisted in the 4th Seaforths	25th Mar. 1913.
Mobilized	4th Aug. 1914.
Proceeded to France	5th Nov. 1914.
Killed in action at the battle of Neuve Chapelle	12th Mar. 1915.

Had one brother serving –

“All that life contains of torture, toil and treason,

Shame, dishonour, death, to him were but a name.

Here, a boy, he dwelt, through all the singing season,

And, ere the day of sorrow, departed as he came.”

From the poem "In Memorian F.A.S." by Robert Louis Stevenson.

Official information

Official record (CWGC)

Cemetery / Memorial: Le Touret Memorial, Pas de Calais, France

Grave: Panel 38 and 39.

Location and Map (CWGC)

Local Memorial: Not commemorated locally.

additional information

Official records state his date of death as being the 11th of March 1915 (not the 12th as stated above), and that his age was 19 and not 20.

Family information

The connection with the Parish today is not known.

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