Corporal Farrier Donald McGlashan

Royal Field Artillery

A member of Lodge St Thomas of Aberbrothock No.40

Image and Information taken from the Arbroath Roll of Honour for the 1914-1918 War

Killed 12th October 1917

Corporal-Farrier Donald McGlashan, Royal Field Artillery, 23 Ladyloan, Arbroath, was a master blacksmith in Dickfield Street before joining the colours

He was a Freemason, being a member of St Thomas Lodge, and was also a member of the Men's Own Brotherhood.

He was forty years of age, and in January 1915 he joined the army as a farrier in the. Forfarshire Battery, R.F.A., 2nd Highland Brigade. Four months later Corporal-Farrier McGlashan went across to France, and was at the front until the 12th of October 1917, when he was killed by a shell.