William Thomas Kedie
1901 Gazetted Second Lieutenant 8 May in 1st Battalion Black Watch. He served in the closing stages of the South African War.
1904 Promoted Lieutenant 13 September
1913 Promoted Captain 20 March
1914 Studying at the Staff College during January. Went to France on 14 August. It was probably at this time that he served as transport officer at a base port [unidentified].
1915 Kedie returned to his battalion and was wounded in January. He was shot through the head and at first refused to go to hospital but was later invalided home. He was wounded again in April 1915 at the Battle of Neuve Chapelle by a shot through his side and spent time in a nursing home in London recovering. When fit for duty he was appointed to the Headquarters Staff of 29th Division in the Dardanelles and arrived there about the end of July.
26 August 1881 Cathcart, Renfrewshire
Killed in action in Gallipoli, probably at the Battle of Scimitar Hill, Suvla (though this has not been verified). There is a major discrepancy between the information from the CWGC which says Kedie is commemorated on Le Touret Memorial in northern France and his parents’gravestone in the Necropolis which says he was killed in action in Gallipoli. Newspaper reports also report him as killed in Gallipoli.
None
Robert Kedie (1844-1915) and Jeanie Forsyth (1854-1911). Married 1877.
Drapery warehouseman, Stewart & Macdonald.
Annie (c1879-), Mabel (c1885-)
unmarried
Kelvinside Academy
Regular soldier
Not found
Gentleman Cadet at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst
1915 – 15 St James Terrace, Glasgow
Scottish National War Memorial
Hawick Municipal Roll of Honour
He left personal estate in UK to the value of £17,733. He left £50 to the officers of the 1st Battalion of the Black Watch to purchase a point-to-point race cup to be ridden for by catch-weights of 14 stone and over.
Much of the information on which this profile is based is drawn from various internet sources which are listed below. The Friends of Glasgow Necropolis also wish to make full acknowledgement and thanks for the permitted use of any information or images generously supplied specifically for exhibition, publication or display in connection with The Roll of Honour and accompanying profiles to Ancestry (www.ancestry.co.uk), Findmypast (www.findmypast.co.uk), etc, etc
Commonwealth War Graves Commission – www.cwgc.org
Family Search – www.familysearch.org
The Long, Long Trail – http://www.1914-1918.net/
Scotlands People – www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk
The Scottish War Memorials Project – www.warmemscot.s4.bizhat.com
Gallery
William Thomas Kedie Monument - Zeta Glasgow Necropolis
Credits
Compiled by Morag Fyfe, Historical and Genealogical Researcher for The Friends of Glasgow Necropolis.