56814 Gunner Peter Rankin of the Royal Garrison Artillery, died of dysentery on the 9th February 1917.
Peter Rankin was a Glaswegian; 32 years old and living with his mother at 636 Duke Street, Glasgow when he volunteered at Leith on the 19th December 1914. He was also a time-expired regular soldier having served eight years with the Royal Engineers and four years on the reserve.
Gunner Rankin arrived overseas in France on the 12th October 1915 and later sailed for East Africa. At the time of his death in what is now Tanzania, Peter Rankin was attached to the 7th Battery, East African Details. He is buried in Morogoro Cemetery.
At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.
Sources:
Ancestry.co.uk (MIC, WO 363)
Army Service Numbers 1881-1918
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Soldiers Died in The Great War
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