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RAMC profile of:
Alexander Petrie LOW M.B., C.M.
 
 


Place or Date
of Birth:
15th May 1875 at 26.5 Keptie Street, Arbroath [kindly provided by Michael Withers]

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TF Number:

Rank: Capt

Unit:

Attached To: 7th Bn. Seaforth Highlanders

Enlistment Location:

Also Served: Various - see below

Outcome: Killed in action

Date Died: 14/07/1916
Age Died: 40

Where Buried and/or Commemorated: France - Thiepval Memorial, Somme

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Other Information:

Alexander was educated at Arbroath High School and at Edinburgh University, where he qualified in 1896. After holding appointments at the Dundee Royal Infirmary and at Craiglockharts Poor house he took up practice in Dundee. He joined the R.A.M.C. (T.F.) in 1912, and was mobilized in September 1914. For the first year he acted as surgeon to the 1st Scottish General Hospital, Aberdeen. He went to France in 1915, and served with No 51(Highland) Casualty Clearing Station and No 30 Casualty Clearing Station before finally becoming the medical officer to the 7th Bn. Seaforth Highlanders. On the day he died the regiment started to advance to Longueval and Delville Wood. His Lieutenant Colonel stated that Alexander had joined the men who fought through to Longueval about an hour after it was taken, and said: “We were each struck with his sense of duty in following so soon. The shelling at the time was very heavy.” Alexander was killed by a direct hit on the head with a shell. A private serving in the Seaforths recorded: “He walked about from one wounded man to another with the utmost coolness. He was with us in the front line when one shell wounded several of us, and if anybody showed bravery and coolness it was Captain Low. There was a quiet nobility in the way he did what he would have said was only his duty, that one was forced to wonder at it even in the heat of action.” Alexander was buried just south of the village of Longueval. He was the son of Captain William and Helen Petrie Low; and the grandson of Alexander Petrie. He was married to Ella Boyd - they had two sons.


 
 
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