9482 Private Patrick Shegog of the 2nd Battalion, Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) was killed in action on the 24th October 1916. He had been in France since 5th November 1914 and was probably a career soldier who had originally joined the battalion in 1907 or 1908.
Patrick Shegog was born in Govan and enlisted at Glasgow. He was 28 years old at the time of his death and is buried in Sucrerie Military Cemetery at Colincamps on the Somme.
At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.
Sources:
Ancestry.co.uk (MIC, WO363)
Army Ancestry
Army Service Numbers 1881-1918
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
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