Personal Details

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Nationality British
Date of Birth 1882
Place of Birth Edinburgh, Midlothian , Scotland
Veterinary College and Date of Graduation Edinburgh - May 1909

Military Service

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Last Rank Captain
Regiment/Service Army Veterinary Corps
Secondary Regiment Royal Horse Artillery
Secondary Unit 7th Brigade
First Theatre of War France September 1914

Casualty Details

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Date of Death 19 January 1918
Age at Death 36
Place of Death Rouen, France
Cause of Death Self Inflicted wounds

Cemetery

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Cemetery St.Sever Cemetery
Location Rounen, France
Grave Reference Officers B.5.14
Commonwealth War Grave Yes - CWGC Headstone
Emblem or Badge on Headstone Army Veterinary Corps

Honours and Memorials

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Name on RCVS Honour Board Yes
Name In Officers who died in Great War Yes
Medals and Awards
  • British War Medal 1914-1918
  • Victory Medal

Biography

Captain David Hannay MRCVS was the son of William and Isabelle Hannay of Portobello, Edinburgh.

He entered the Royal (Dick) Veterinary College in October 1904 and qualified MRCVS in May 1909. After qualifying he worked as an assistant to John Hutton MRCVS at Pringlebank in Kelso, Roxburghshire, and bought the practice in February 1910 on the latter’s death.

He was commissioned as a temporary Lieutenant in the Army Veterinary Corps in September 1914 and embarked for France in the same month. He served with 7th Brigade, Royal Horse Artillery, through the early war campaigns and was awarded the 1914 Star with Bar. He was promoted to temporary Captain in September 1915.

He died, aged 36, at No. 2 Red Cross Hospital, Rouen, on 17th January 1918. His entry in the Army Register of Effects gives the cause of his death as “Self-inflicted wounds”.

He is buried in St Sever Cemetery, Rouen, France.

Captain Hannay’s death was reported in the Veterinary Record on 9 February 1918.

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