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Captain JAMES DONALDSON BOSWALL

Regiment & Unit/Ship

Seaforth Highlanders

10th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 06 June 1915

Age 45 years old

Buried or commemorated at

HELLES MEMORIAL

Panel 178.

Turkey (including Gallipoli)

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Secondary Unit, Regiment attd. 1st Bn. Essex Regiment
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of the late Maj. Gen. Roper Boswall and his wife Eleanor Macdonald, daughter of the late Alexander Brodie, of Edinburgh; husband of Theresa, daughter of the late Hormuzd Rassam. He was a Writer to the Signet. Served in the South African War in the C.I.V'S. Obtained permanent post of mounted orderly to Lord Kitchener. Inspector of Police in Pretoria at the conclusion of the South African War.
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