Lance Corporal Hugh Farquhar

9th Gordon Highlanders

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 23rd August 1916

Lance-Corporal Hugh Farquhar, 9th Gordon Highlanders (Pioneers), was the son of Henry Farquhar, slater, 11 Convent Street, Arbroath. He was twenty-eight years of age, and was at one time employed as a plasterer with Mr. Frank Middleton, Lindsay Street. Lance-Corporal Farquhar had gone to Vancouver, but he returned and joined the 9th Gordons.

He was on active service for two years, and on the 23rd of August 1917, at Ypres, he was struck by a bullet and killed instantaneously. The Chaplain said: —"He was a fine soldier and a good man, and did his duty nobly to the last."

He took a keen interest in Freemasonry, and was a member of Lodge St Thomas.