Donald McRae, Private Cameron Highlanders, aged 21
Donald was neither born nor brought up in Strathblane but, like John Colquhoun and Philip Binnie, his parents appear to have had a second home in the area, probably for use in the summer months. He was born in 1893 in Partick, the son of John McRae, a merchant, and Janet Ritchie Simpson who had married in Glasgow in 1885. Donald enlisted in the Cameron Highlanders and died in July 1915 of wounds received at the Battle of Festubert. He is buried at Hinges Military Cemetery in Northern France. The 1920 Valuation Roll records his father as the tenant of 4 New City Row. Donald is named on the family gravestone in Strathblane Cemetery.
His Commonwealth War Graves Commission memorial stone carries the inscription: “He died that we might live.”