| Notes: | MMP. Awarded the 1915 Star, Victory and War Medals. First served abroad (2a) Balkans, 16/6/1915. Shown as buried at sea in CWGC Roll. Died of Malaria at sea.
Info from Pension Index Cards:- Case 29. Melville John Smith, P/1215, MMP, Cpl, 16/10/16, 30/9/16 DIEd from Malaria, and Nephritis contracted on active service, widow, Cecil, born 22/8/88, 26 Shouldham Street, Bayanston Square, London WI, grant paid list 28/7/18, sent to AP Branch 12/9/18, retd. from AP branch 19/9/18 widow not eligible, 9/4/17 widow awarded 13/9 per week pension, WFJ/41C. Also:- Elder, Mrs, Cecil, Canada, remarried widow of Smith Melville John, MMP, P/1215, copied from P10 OS Index 17/10/27.
Army Register of Soldiers' Effects, 1901-1929. He was born in Cults, Fife, enlisted in Tottenham and resided in Waltham Abbey.
John Smith Melville.
Extract from Broughty Ferry Guide and Advertiser 13 October 1916.
Tayport Casualties. Mr. A. A. Melville, commercial traveller, ogilvie Street, has received official intimation that his son, John Smith Melville, of the Military Mounted Police, has succumbed to an attack of fever in a hospital at Salonika on the 30th September. He3 served eight years in the R.H.A. and four years in the reserve. Before enlistment he was a lithographer in the employ of Messrs. Paul & Matthew, Dundee
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