Lieutenant John Rowe Dill

From the 1914-1918 InvizionZone Website:


11 June 1915 Announcement

News reached Alloway on Tuesday, that Lt J. R. Dill, 69th Punjabis Indian Army, had been killed in action in France on Sunday June the 6th.

John Rowe Dill (1889-1915)      

Lt. John Rowe Dill was the third son of the Very Rev Marcus Dill, D. D., Alloway, Ex Moderator of the Church of Scotland. He was born on the 3rd of December 1889. Having received his education at Marlborough College and the Royal Military College Sandhurst, he obtained his first commision in 1910, when he was attached to the 2nd Battalion North Staffordshire Regiment. In 1911 he joined the 69th Punjabis, in which he was recently appointed Adjutant.

When war was declared he accompanied his regiment to Egypt, and along with them, he arrived in the North of France, where a day or two afterwards he fell in the service of his country.

His brother Captain Robert Foster Dill, DSO, 129th Baluchis, was killed near the same place early in April, and both are buried in the same cemetery, near the trenches.

The Very Rev Dr. Dill has two other sons in the service, Captain Graham Dill of the R. A. M. C. and Mr. Alfred Dill in the Officers Training Corps, and Miss Dill is engaged on a Hospital Ship bringing the wounded from France. Captain Graham Dill met his brother, the late Lt. J. R. Dill, for the first time in 5 years only a day or two before he was killed.

As we can see, at least five of the Irish-Scots children of Samuel Marcus Dill and Catherine Haughton Rentoul had willingly signed up to service in the British army, following in the path of Lieutenants John and Seneca Hadzor almost exactly two hundred years before.