Father : John McCorquodale
Mother : Catherine McGregor of Lismore
1896 born in Ardchattan
1901 Census the family were living at Kennecraig, Ardchattan
1915 the family were at 5 Combie street, Oban where Dugald was working as a clerk.
He enlisted on the 16th March to the 2/8th Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders at Dunoon. His attestation papers say he is 5 ft 4 and half and of fair physical development
He was training in Falkirk when he fell ill.
Regiment number 3217
21 August he was admitted to the 4th Scottish General Hospital at Stobhill with tuberculosis, and the later discharge from the army on the 27th Sept describes him as "obviously dying*
died 7 months later on the 1st October 1915 in Glasgow, he had already been discharged
Both parents had pre-deceased him but he had 6 brothers and sisters
Archie (28 in 1915) : John (26) : Hugh (19) : Mary (32) all living at 5 Combie Street
and Anne (McAlpine 38 in Callendar) : Catherine (Campbell 32 in Glencruitten Road, Oban) Alexander (Ardnaclach, Appin)
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/interactive/1219/30971_172978-00225/1231741 attestation papers to 2/8th Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/69315607 Pennyfuir cemetary
https://www.everyoneremembered.org/profiles/soldier/2752788/
https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2752788/mccorquodale,-/
https://livesofthefirstworldwar.iwm.org.uk/lifestory/7681411
https://astreetnearyou.org/person/2752788/Private---Mccorquodale
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