MacGregor, George ( - 1915)

Lieutenant, 8th Bn. Seaforth Highlanders

Buried at Loos Memorial

Commemorated at City of Glasgow Roll of Honour at Glasgow City Chambers

George MacGregor, born on the 2nd July 1888, son of Simon MacGregor, hailed from the village of King Edward in Banff, in the north-east of Scotland. George studied at the University of Glasgow between 1907 and 1911, graduating M.A. in 1911.

George MacGregor served as a 2nd Lieutenant with the 8th Bn. of the Seaforth Highlanders and was killed in action on the first day of the Battle of Loos, 25th September 1915, aged 27. He is commemorated on the Loos Memorial in the Dud Corner Cemetery, just west of the village of Loos-en-Gohelle, five kilometres north-west of Lens in France.

Reproduced with permission from the University of Glasgow Roll of Honour: http://www.universitystory.gla.ac.uk/ww1-intro/