Captain Lachlan Gordon Duff

Regiment: Gordon Highlanders
Date published: 04/12/1914
Killed in action: Yes
Date of death: 24/10/1914
Age at death: 34
Cemetery: Rue Du Bois Military Cemetery, Fleurbaix, Pas de Calais, France
Plot: II. K. 1.
Information: Captain Lachlan Gordon Duff, Gordon Highlanders, He was the eldest son of Mr. T. Gordon Duff, of Drummuir, and Park House. He was born in January, 1880, and entered the Military College at Sandhurst 1898. A year later he was gazetted to the Gordon Highlanders, joining the 1st Battalion as 2nd Lieutenant. In January, 1900, he was promoted Lieutenant and had attained Captain's rank when he retired. On the outbreak of hostilities he at once rejoined his regiment and was killed in an engagement in the North of France on the 24th October. In April, 1908, he married Miss Lydia Dorothy Muriel Pike, daughter of Mr. Joseph Pike, D.L., of Dunsland, Co. Cork, where he was well known in the Southern hunting fields, and was a member of the United Hunt Club. During the South African War he saw a good deal of service and had both medals with clasps.