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12th (Service) Battalion Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
Service No: S/5291

Thomas Archibald Douglas McAllister grave

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Personal details

Family Information

Son of Thomas E D McAllister and Margaret G McAllister of 9 Calder St, Whifflet, Coatbridge. From the 1901 Census - Address - Main St, Slamannan, Stirlingshire - Thomas E D McAllister aged 32, Margaret McAllister aged 30, Thomas McAllister aged 7, John McAllister aged 5, Robert McAllister aged 2, Margaret A McAllister aged 6 months. Thomas' Pension was awarded to his mother Margaret from the 15/09/1917.

Born / Resided

Slamannan, Stirlingshire / 9 Calder St, Whifflet, Coatbridge

Died

Killed in Action on the 15/03/1917 at Salonika

Enlisted

Coatbridge 1914

Employed

Rosehall Colliery

Age

23

Buried / Remembered

Karasouli Military Cemetery (E. 1007), Greece.

Cemetery / Memorial Information

The cemetery was begun in September 1916 for the use of casualty clearing stations on the Doiran front. At the Armistice, it contained about 500 burials but was greatly increased when graves were brought in from other cemeteries. Karasouli Military Cemetery now contains 1,421 Commonwealth burials of the First World War, 56 being unidentified.

Additional Information

Thomas and the Battalion arrived at Boulogne on the 19/09/1915 but soon moved and by November 1915 was at Salonika. They were part of the 77th Brigade, 26th Division. Embarkation for France began in September 1915 and the concentration of units at Guignemicourt (west of Amiens) was completed before the end of the month. However, the Division was not destined to remain on the Western Front, because in November 1915 it moved to Salonika where it then remained. Thomas' Grave photo donated by Mick McCann at britishwargraves.co.uk. Thomas is also remembered on the Slamannan War Memorial, Stirlingshire (listed as Machine Gun Corps, see photos). See photos for Thomas' Medal Index Card, his Army Register of Soldiers Effects, his Service Medal and Award Rolls x 2, his CWGC Grave Registration x 2, his Headstone Report x 2, Karasouli Military Cemetery, Thomas' Pension Records x 2 and the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders Cap Badge. Finally, see photos x 14 for the 26th Division Order of Battle (the Division he was serving with when he died).

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