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Personal data George Campbell Beveridge 

• He was born on March 9, 1891 in Donibristle Coalworks, Aberdour, Fife, Scotland.Source 2
• Resident in the year 1891: .Source 1
• He died on September 25, 1915 in Loos, Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France, he was 24 years old.Source 3

  Private S/6412, 8th Bn., Seaforth Highlanders

• A child of Robert Beveridge and Janet Campbell

Household of George Campbell Beveridge

Notes about George Campbell Beveridge

1. Private George Beveridge, 8th Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders.
George was the son of Robert Beveridge, and Janet Campbell, who lived at Frosty Mounts, Donibristle. He joined the 8th Battalion Seaforth Highlanders, which was raised at Fort George near Inverness in September 1914. After training in England, George found himself in the thick of the action in France when the Battle of Loos commenced on September 25th 1915. Initially British gains looked good, but the failure of the artillery to cut enemy barbed wire meant they came at a huge human cost (a lesson still not learned by the time of the Somme offensive in July 1916). Indeed, September 25th saw the heaviest losses to date for the British. George was among the dead, and is commemorated on the Loos Memorial.
Ironically, it stands on the very ground he was sent to attack. (Thanks to Kevin Guthrie)

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Loos
The Battle of Loos took place from 25 September - 8 October 1915 in France on the Western Front, during the First World War. It was the biggest British attack of 1915, the first time that the British used poison gas and the first mass engagement of New Army units. The French and British tried to break through the German defences in Artois and Champagne and restore a war of movement. Despite improved methods, more ammunition and better equipment, the Franco-British attacks were contained by the German armies, except for local losses of ground. British casualties at Loos were about twice as high as German losses.

3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Loos
25th Septeber 1915 - In many places British artillery had failed to cut the German wire before the attack. Advancing over open fields, within range of German machine guns and artillery, the British suffered many casualties. The British were able to break through the weaker German defences and capture the village of Loos-en-Gohelle, mainly due to numerical superiority. Supply and communications problems, combined with the late arrival of reserves, meant that the breakthrough could not be exploited. Haig did not hear until 10:00 a.m. that the divisions were moving up to the front. French visited Haig from 11:00 to 11:30 a.m. and agreed that Haig could have the reserve but rather than using the telephone he drove to Haking's headquarters and gave the order at 12:10 p.m. Haig then heard from Haking at 1:20 p.m. that the reserves were moving forward.[5]

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