George Begg

It was reported in the Ayr advertiser in 1916 that George Begg of Cumnock had recently returned from South Africa was to take up a post in the Royal Engineers.

He the son of George Begg and Margaret Tannahill of Greenbank and the brother of James McGee Begg.

In December 1917,  reported in the Scotsman, he was admitted as a member of the Institution of Civil Engineers.

He rose to the rank of Captain. 

After the war he appears to have returned to South Africa as there are records of his journeys in 1935 and 1938 accompanied by his wife Rabie!

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