Corporal John S. Boath

4th Gordon Highlanders

A member of Lodge St Thomas of Aberbrothock No.40, Arbroath

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

Died 4th February 1919, of Influenza

Corporal John S. Boath, 4th Gordon Highlanders, 24 Millgate Loan, Arbroath, was the son of William Boath and of his wife Helen Mill, 19 Wallace Street.

He was forty-two years of age, had married Elizabeth Whytock, and left a son and a daughter.
He had been a butcher with Mr David Harris, and was for many years the principal salesman to Mr George Harris.
Well-known and greatly respected in Arbroath, he was a prominent Freemason, a member of Lodge St Thomas, and was R.W.M. for two years.
He was also an office-bearer of Hope Charter Royal Arch, and for five years in succession was R.W.M. of the Free Gardeners' Friendly Society.

In August 1916 he joined the 5th Black Watch as a private, and was connected with the commisariat department at Ripon Camp. ' Later he was transferred, and was promoted corporal in June 1918.
Early in 1919 he had influenza 'followed by pneumonia, and he died in Edinburgh Castle Military Hospital on the 4th of February.
He was buried in Arbroath Western Cemetery with Masonic honours.