Wednesday 28 April 2010

23723 Pte William Egan, 2nd Bn, HLI

23723 Private William Egan of the 2nd Battalion, Highland Light Infantry, was killed in action on the 28th April 1917. He was born in Dundee and enlisted in the city around August 1915. He is buried in the Cabaret-Rouge British Cemetery at Souchez in France.

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.

Sources:

Ancestry (MIC)
Soldiers Died in The Great War
Army Service Numbers
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission

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