World War 1
Search the known records to date of those lost from the wider Alnwick area in World War 1
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Robert Deuchar
Forename(s):
Robert
Surname:
Deuchar
Initial(s):
R
Service Number:
Officer
Rank:
2nd Lieutenant
Regiment:
Yeomanry, 3/2nd Scottish Horse
Died:
27/05/1916
Aged:
19
Buried:
St. Mary & St. James Churchyard, Morpeth, Northumberland
Service History:
Died at the County Hospital, Ayr, Scotland as a result of a motor accident.
Background:
Born on 3 September 1896, at Whalton, Morpeth, the son of Farquhar Deuchar of Shortridge Hall, Warkworth, Northumberland, by his late wife, Sarah Anne (née Marshall; d. 19 February 1912, age 49) who he married at London in 1894.
Brother to Farquhar Jnr., Stella Louise Farquhar, Jessie Elaine, & Iris Mary (who married Charles Webb). Grandson of Robert Deuchar who founded the family brewing interests.
Deuchar was a Commercial Clerk in the family brewing company.
Farquhar Deuchar Snr. donated a large area of parkland in Morpeth for the use of the public in his son's memory.
The Robert Deuchar brewing empire was sold by Farqhar Deuchar to Scottish & Newcastle Brewery in 1953. Many of the streets in the Sandyford area of Newcastle upon Tyne were built & named after the Deuchar family.
(Source: 'Portraits of War...'; Edited & compiled by June Watson; Wildgoose Press; 2016; pp. 62-63)
Local Memorial:
Warkworth War Memorial, by St Lawrence's Church
