Private HUGH DOYLE DISHER
Last address in Lewis: 3 Stag Road, Stornoway
Grandson of James Disher
Service unit: 5th/ 6th Scottish Rifles
Service number: 41676
Date of death: 17 October 1917
Died of trench fever in hospital
Interred: Hazebrouck Communal Cemetery, III. F. 27
Local memorial: Lewis War Memorial; Nicolson WW1 memorial, left panel
Previously served with the Royal Scots, 2/1399.
Enlisted in Glasgow. A Hugh D Disher is shown in the Gorbals area on the 1891 census. A James Disher lives at 7 Stag Road, Stornoway in 1901 - he was an umbrella mender, born in Glasgow. Previous censuses show him as a hawker or pedler around Lewis and Harris.
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