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Volunteered 23 September 1914 at Quebec

Assigned to No 1 General Hospital, Canadian Expeditionary Force as a clerk.

Sailed from Quebec for UK on SS Scandinavian 4 October

1914

Embarked at Southampton for France 13 May 1915

14 February 1874

Died from bronchial pneumonia and nephritis at No 1 Canadian General Hospital, Etaples

Son of John and Elizabeth McGregor, of Bonnyton, Helensburgh, Scotland.

John McGregor (1834-1894) & Elizabeth Strang (1834-1884)

Muslin manufacturer

Elizabeth (1859-), Mrs W P Ure, William (1860-1866), Jessie

(1864-1868), Catherine (1865-1868), Annie (1866-1868),

James S (1868-1944), Margaret (1869-1926), John (1871-

1900), Campbell (1874-), Robert B (1877-1927)

Unmarried

University of Glasgow, MA 1896

Coffee and India-Rubber planter in Mexico

Bonnyton, Upper Sutherland Crescent, Rhu

Bonnyton, Upper Sutherland Crescent, Rhu

Connieston, East Montrose Street, Helensburgh

Christopher had a history of poor health having suffered from pleurisy in 1894, yellow fever in 1899 and malaria in 1899 and afterwards.

His military records show he suffered a bout of influenza in Britain before leaving for France. Once in France he experience a bout of bronchitis in 1915, more influenza in 1916 followed by an attack of colitis. Given these episodes it is maybe not surprising he succumbed to pneumonia in 1917.

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Roll of Honour and accompanying profiles to Ancestry (www.ancestry.co.uk), Findmypast (www.findmypast.co.uk),

Commonwealth War Graves Commission – www.cwgc.org

Family Search – www.familysearch.org