| Notes: | CMP. 244 Pro Coy. Enlisted in the Kings Own Scottish Borderers, transferred to Black Watch, 1 Tyneside Scottish, transferred to CMP. 20/12/44 Killed in Action.
He was born and resided in Dundee. War Diary, 244 Pro Coy, WO 171/3389. 27/11/44 Antwerp CMP information post damaged by VI, 3 NCO's badly wounded. 3323384 Cpl MacQueen died as a result of enemy action. Mock auction held and £25 raised for his wife and 4 children.
Casualty List 1655, Western Europe, Died of Wounds, 20/12/1944. Inscription on gravestone: Till the dawn breaks and the shadows flee. forever remembered. Andrew MacQueen.
Extract from Dundee Evening Telegraph, 26/12/44. Dundee Corporal Injured.
Mrs MacQueen, 36 Cotton Road, Dundee has received official word that her husband Cpl. Andrew MacQueen (29), Corps of Military Police is dangerously ill in a hospital, British Liberation Army, suffering from head injury. Cpl MacQueen who has been in the Army five years, was formerly employed with Scott Bros. Butchers, 104 Victoria Road. A brother is serving with the Pathfinders (RAF). Cpl MacQueen has four of a family. |
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