Looking for their families, so that identities can be confirmed by DNA comparison.
If anyone can help with the whereabouts of any surviving family.
MODWarDetectives@mod.gov.uk. would be delighted to hear from you.
Links to Glamorgan so that seems the best option at the moment.
Pte David Gemmell - 1st Battalion, Black Watch - killed in action 25 January 1915
David Gemmell was born in 1869 in Dundee to David Gemmell (1824 to 1904) and Mary Cable (1824 to 1902). He was the youngest of eight children - his siblings were:
Helen (born 1849)
Eliza, Jean and Jane (all listed as born in 1861)
Jessie (1866 to 1948)
Joan/Johanna (born 1855)
Georgina (born 1864)
The 1891 Census shows him aged 22 years and living with his parents at Hilltown in Dundee. By the time of the next Census in 1901 he was a plumber and lodged in a house in Stobcross Street, Glasgow.
Three of David’s sisters married:
Jessie, married George Williamson and they had three sons, George (1896 to 1952 Glamorgan), James (1899 to 1971 Glamorgan) and Edwin (1903 to 1976 Glamorgan) mentioned on ancestry tree.
Joan/Johanna (1854 - 1877) married Jesse Carr in 1875 in Dundee.
A daughter - Adelaide May Kezia Carr - 1876–1935
born 28 April 1876 Dunn Street, No 31, Dundee, Angus, Scotland
died 1935 - East Glamorgan, Glamorgan, Wales.
Married 1902 - Parish Church, Canton, Glamorganshire, Wales.
Had 2 daughters - Grace Hancock in 1907 - 1964 London Middlesex and Christine Hancock 1909 - 1997 USA
Eliza 1858 - 1943 Westfield Road, No 23, Broughty Ferry, Angus, Scotland married Andrew Petrie Thomson 1858 - 1907 Dundee Angus.
Daughter - Edith Eliza THOMSON 1895–1984
born 9 October 1895 - Willowbank Cottage, Camphill, Broughty Ferry, Angus, Scotland
died 17 April 1984 - Mundarmalla, Nytyle, Sidlaw, Angus, Scotland.
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