Captain Cesari of Woodburn, Burham, is officially reported killed by sniper in France. After graduating from Perth Academy he was house surgeon at Greenock Infirmary. Played for Greenock Wanderers.

"He has a different memorial as his fellow officers paid to have this one erected. The War Graves Commission did want to change it but my great aunt wouldn't allow it." 

Remembered at Perth Academy and Dunkeld

3rd October 1915
"Captain SFM Cesari RAMC SR killed in action at 6.15 pm at ADS at Vermelles."

4th October 1915
"The Body of Capt Cesari was buried at Bethune Cemetery grave No4 row EO 10." (nb the row reference is not clearly written).

Source > War diary No 6 Field Ambulance - TNA ref WO95/1338

M.B., ChB., M.D., Capt., Royal Army medical Corps (Spec. Res.), 2nd s. of the late Francis Felix Cesari, of Inverness and Birnam (a Roman who fought with distinction in Victor Emmanuel's Army, and received the Military Medal for valour), by his wife, Norah (Woodburn, Birnam, Perthshire), dau. Of Thomas Herbert, civil engineer; b. Inverness 2 Dec., 1889; educ. Perth Academy, and Edinburgh University, where he had a brilliant course, gaining medals in surgery and anatomy, and graduated M.B. and Ch.B. in July 1913, later passing through his chemical examination for M.D. He was gazetted 2nd Lieut, 8 April 1913; went to the front with the 1st Expeditionary Force in Aug. 1914, and was killed in action by a rifle bullet at 6.15 p.m., 3 Oct. 1915, while handing over dug-outs for wounded to another officer. Buried in Bethune Cemetery. 
Capt. P. Sampson, commanding officer of his unit wrote: "He was an officer whose courage and bravery were not only known in the Field Ambulance, but throughout the 2nd Division". 
W. McK. H. McCulloch, Field Ambulance, 1st Guards Division, B.E.F., also wrote that he became very intimate with him during their long periods of action around Givenchy, Cuinchy, and north of Festubert, and it was at Vermelles, when handing over his unit, that his death occurred. The shot came from the Hohenzollern Redoubt 1,000 yards away. He was carried on a stretcher into a trench and he died a few minutes later; unm. 

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