| 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, 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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