Lt Robert Merlin Graham Aytoun, A & S Highlanders

Lieutenant Robert Merlin Graham Aytoun of the 2nd Battalion, Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders, died of wounds on the 27th August 1914. He was 24 years old and the son of Lieutenant Colonel Andrew Aytoun. He is buried in Le Cateau Communal Cemetery.

The Bond of Sacrifice carried the following small biography of him:

"... previously reported unofficially as killed in action, died, as has since been ascertained, in Le Cateau Town Hospital (French Red Cross), on the 27th August, 1914, of wounds received the previous day while leading his platoon. He was the only child of Lieutenant-Colonel and Mrs. Andrew Aytoun, and was born on the 19th January, 1890. He was gazetted to the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders in May 1910 and was promoted Lieutenant in July 1911."


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

Sources:

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