Surname:	Mackintosh
Forename(s):	David
Rank:	Sergeant
Service number:	53834
Regiment:	18th Canadian Infantry (Western Ontario Regiment)
Date of death:	15 September 1916 Aged 23
Place of death:	Courcelette, Somme
Buried Commemorated	Unknown Vimy Memorial to The Missing (Canadian)

Background

David was born on 2 June 1893 at the Queensferry Arms Hotel, Queensferry. He was the third son of Hugh Mackintosh, a Hotel Keeper from Inverness, and Janet (m.s. Fraser) who were married 29 October, 1886.

David was a prominent member of the Queensferry Rowing Club and won trophies as part of the Jolly boat crew at local regattas on the Forth.

David left Glasgow for Quebec around 1910 where he was subsequently employed as a machinist, it is thought, with the Grand Trunk Railway where he worked until 1914. When David died was described as son of Mrs. Jessie MacKintosh, of “Fortha,” Cramond, Edinburgh. David was one of nine children.

War Record

David served with the 18th Canadian Infantry Battalion which was raised in Western Ontario and left London, Ontario on 12th April 1915. They sailed on the S.S.Grampian from Halifax (see Halifax Memorial photograph below) on 17th April 1915 and arrived at West Sandling Camp, near Folkestone on 29 April 1915. 

David was killed in action on 15 September 1916, aged 23 at the Battle of Courcelette on the Somme. His body was not recovered.

He is also commemorated on the Kingussie War Memorial, Kingussie and Insh Memorial in Kingussie Parish Church and South Queensferry War Memorial and also also commemorated on the family gravestone at South Queensferry Cemetery.