Profiles

Captain

1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal

Royal Garrison Artillery 1st /4th Highland (Mountain) Brigade, Argyll Battery

1908 Transferred from 1st Argyll and Bute Royal Garrison Artillery (Volunteers) to 4th Highland (Mountain) Brigade with rank of Lieutenant.

1914 Promoted to Captain.

1915 The Argyll and Ross & Cromarty Batteries of the 4th Highland Mountain Brigade were assigned to the 29th Division for the assault on the Dardanelles. They accompanied the 1st Lancashire Fusiliers and were amongst the first artillery ashore on ‘W’ Beach on the 25th April.

Todd was mortally wounded during the Battle of Gully Ravine on 28th June.

26th June 1876, Glasgow

29th June 1915

Died of wounds

39

Helles Memorial, Panel 23 or 325.

Son of the late George Todd and of Mrs. Clare Todd, of 33, Cecil St., Glasgow; husband of Allyce Todd, of Duncraoibhan, Lochgilphead, Argyll.

George Todd (c1840-1884) & Mary C Field (c1850-1938)

Farm overseer

George F (c1878-), Cecilia L (c1879-1952), Mary B (c1881–1965), Henry K (c1882-), Frederick J (c1885-)

Allyce McMillan (c 1879-), married 1907; 2 children – George M (c1908-), Elizabeth M (1910-)

Kelvinside Academy

Architect & Burgh Surveyor for Lochgilphead

Easter Haghill Farm, Dennistoun, Glasgow

Not at family home [Victoria Crest Road, Partick]

10 Ann Street, Partick

Duncraobhan, Manse Brae, Lochgilphead

Duncraobhan, Manse Brae, Lochgilphead

Compartment Epsilon Lair 554

Scottish National War Memorial

Lochgilphead War Memorial

Secretary of local golf club

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)

Bute Sons and Daughters through the centuries – www.butesonsanddaughters.co.uk/battery.shtml

Commonwealth War Graves Commission – www.cwgc.org

Family Search – www.familysearch.org

Dictionary of Scottish Architects 1840-1980 – http://www.scottisharchitects.org.uk/architect_full.php?id=203302

The Long, Long Trail – http://www.1914-1918.net/

The London Gazette 10 November 1908

Scotlands People – www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk

The Scottish War Memorials Project – www.warmemscot.s4.bizhat.com