David Bryce

David Bryce was born on 13 November  1883 at 248 Cronberry to David Bryce and Margaret Biggans. In the 1911 census  he was living with his brother Joseph and family at Highhouse in Auchinleck. He was a coal miner.

He enlisted in the Seaforth Highlanders in Cumnock but was transferred to the Royal Engineers. He was a sapper in the  179th Tunneling Company when he died on 4th July 1916 at the Somme. He was 33.

In the Register of Soldiers' effects,  14 shillings was left to a his niece Margaret.

He is remembered on Kilmarnock War Memorial and at Albert Communal Cemetery in the Somme, France.

Here is his entry on CWGC and on Cumnock Connections tree