He died on 26th November 1917 in Flanders and is remembered on the Tyne Cot Memorial.
CWGC
Ancestry has this
| Name: | David Niven |
|---|---|
| Birth Place: | Portobello, Midlothian |
| Death Date: | 26 Nov 1917 |
| Death Location: | France & Flanders |
| Enlistment Location: | Edinburgh |
| Rank: | Private |
| Regiment: | Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) |
| Battalion: | 1st Battalion |
| Number: | 202574 |
| Type of Casualty: | Killed in action |
| Theatre of War: | Western European Theatre |
He doesn't appear to have a local connection until the Cumnock Chronicle comes up with the link.
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| photo from Cumnock Chronicle by Kay, added March 2018 |
Update 25 Nov 2017
He was born David McArthur Niven in 1896 in Portobello
He was a railway clerk serving in the RSF when he married Jeanie Armstrong in Edinburgh in 1915.
She was the daughter of John Armstrong and Elizabeth Hall who married in Sorn on 31 Dec 1872.
So his young widow is the local connection. She married again in Cumnock in 1923 to Henry Trousdale Russell.
Cumnock Connections tree
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