Drummond, David S/13420 (1894 - 1918)

Private, Seaforth Highlanders

Buried at Chislehurst Cemetery

Commemorated at Hillhead High School

David Drummond was the eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. James Drummond, 21 Havelock Street, Dowanhill, Glasgow. At School he is remembered as a quiet, unobtrusive, painstaking pupil. He had good abilities, which his steady application put to the best use. On leaving School he entered the office of Messrs Buchanan, Gairdner & Tennant, stockbrokers, St. Vincent Street. After some time he left for Venezuela, where he was employed when war began.

When the need for men became more insistent he threw up his post and came home to enlist in the Seaforth Highlanders. Mr. Gerard, American Ambassador in Berlin, on one occasion twitted the German Foreign Secretary on the failure of the Germans in America to respond to the call of the Fatherland. They were willing to plot and scheme and give their money for the cause, but their lives, no. How different was the case with our gallant boys. They rallied to the Motherland from the ends of the earth and from the uttermost isles of the sea. The record of their service and the unparalleled privations, hardships, and dangers, many of them endured on their homeward trek will yet make one of the most glorious pages in the history of these years.

Among these heroes David Drummond is enshrined, for only a compelling sense of duty to the Homeland would have drawn so gentle and refined a youth to face the rough bludgeoning of war. He went to France in August, 1916, and saw much heavy fighting in the autumn and following spring. During the great German offensive he was badly wounded in the face, and never fully recovered. In October, 1918, while still in hospital at Sidcup, he fell a victim to influenza, and passed away on the 5th November.

The grief and sorrow of his parents are shared by all his old class mates and teachers.