Acting Captain
William Aneas Stirling
Military Details
Regiment & Unit / Ship
2nd Seaforth Highlanders
Awards and Medals
The 1914-15 Star
The Victory Medal
The British War Medal, 1914-18
Service History
William joined his regiment at Aldershot and by November 1914, he was in France, serving near Hazebrook, but in December he developed appendicitis and was sent home. In December 1915, William joined an Entrenching Battalion in France. He was reported missing, presumed killed between 14 and 16 October 1916, age 20, at Les Boeufs, France (The Somme), and is commemorated on Thiepval Memorial.
Personal Details
Date of Birth
26th September 1896
Place of Birth
Contin , Ross & Cromarty
Religion
C of E
Address
Fairburn , Muir of Ord , Rossshire
Residence (Census)
17 Ennismore Gardens , Hanover Sq., London
Residence (Roll of Honour)
Fairburn , Muir of Ord , Rossshire
Parents
William and Charlotte Eve Stirling
Siblings
Marion Louisa,Charlotte,Robert M , James E,Duncan A
Death and Memorial
Date of Death
14th October 1916
Age at Death
20
Circumstances of Death
Killed in Action
Place of Death
Transloy Ridge
Theater of Action
Somme
Regiment at Death
Seaforth Highlanders
Battalion/Vessel at Death
2nd
Rank at Death
Acting Captain
Notes
William was the was the second son of William Stirling, and Charlotte Eva Stirling . William Stirling 12 February 1859 – 10 November 1914 married 7 August 1889 Charlotte Eva 9 January 1862 – 3 December 1935 Second daughter of Aeneas Mackintosh of Daviot and Louisa Fanny Sybella Macleod . Williams father was John Stirling who after training in a Scottish bank travelled to Cumbria to work with his brother-in-law, Thomas Ainsworth, in the Flax Industry in Cleator . In 1841 a local group of iron ore owners, including JS and Thomas Ainsworth, joined forces and built the Cleator Moor Iron Ore Works which, had closed by 1925. In 1858 JS starting borings on Todholes, near Cleator, and had almost given up prospecting when haematite was discovered. In 1862 he started boring in the Montreal royalty and discovered more haematite and opened the Montreal Mine, which also produced coal. On 14 September 1852 he and his wife, Marian, went to live at Park House, Whitehaven; Marian had six children while living at Whitehaven:
Buried or Commemorated at
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