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Pte. Frederick James Tait

British Army 10th Btn. Scottish Rifles

from:Edinburgh

(d.25th April 1917)

My Grandfather, Fred Tait, the only son of Elizabeth Tait, was married to Mary and had two sons and a newborn daughter when he was killed during the Battle of Arras. A letter to his widow informed her that he had been killed by a shell and there was "no mark upon his body". "He was buried where he lay, near the front line". His body was not found and his name is inscribed upon the Arras Memorial. RIP.

Before he enlisted, he worked as a horse-van driver for McEwan's Brewery in Fountainbridge, Edinburgh. His name is upon the Arras Memorial and upon the Fountain Brewery plaque at Canongate Kirk, Edinburgh.



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