William Thomas Kedie
Date of Birth: 26th August 1881
Place of Birth: Glasgow, Scotland
Education: Kelvinside Academy
Training: Royal Military College (Sandhurst)
Commission Type: Regular
The son of a Glasgow warehouse foreman (later Justice of the Peace), William Kedie commissioned into the Black Watch in 1901, and almost immediately saw action in the closing stages of the Second Anglo-Boer War. He was killed in action while serving as a staff officer in Gallipoli on 21st August 1915.