Peter
Bennie
Christie
Born in Stripside, Denny, Stirlingshire, Scotland
Ancestors 
Son of Archibald Christie
and Betsy Brown (Baillie) Christie
Brother of
John Christie, William Baillie Christie, Elizabeth Melville Christie, Sarah (Christie) Robb, James Paton Christie and Betsy Baillie Brown (Christie) Adams
[spouse(s) unknown]
[children unknown]
Died
at age 22
in France
Profile last modified
| Created 5 Mar 2018
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Peter Christie was born in Scotland.
Pvt Peter Christie was Killed in Action in France on 23 July 1918 during World War I.
Biography
Peter was born on 29 May 1896 in Denny, Stirlingshire. He is the son of Archibald Christie and Bessie Baillie. [1]
Peter enlisted as Private 303307 in the 1st/8th Battalion the Princess Louise's (Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders) Regiment in Clydebank, Dumbartonshire.[2]
Peter arrived in France on 18 April 1915 and, after the war, was posthumously awarded the 1915 Star, British War Medal and Victory Medal.[3]
Peter was killed in action on 23 July 1918 and is buried in Buzany Military Cemetry. Buzany is a village in the Department Aisne 7km south of Soiessons and 50km west of Rems, Northern France.[4][5]
Sources
- ↑ Scotlands People Statutory Births 476/19
- ↑ Military-Genealogy.com, comp. UK, Soldiers Died in the Great War, 1914-1919 [database on-line]. Ancestry.com; (£) https://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?_phsrc=LRx414&_phstart=successSource&usePUBJs=true&indiv=1&dbid=1543&gsfn=peter&gsln=Christie&gsfn_x=NP_NN&cp=11&msbdy=1896&msbpn__ftp=stirlingshire,%20scotland&msbpn=5354&new=1&rank=1&redir=false&gss=angs-d&pcat=39&fh=2&h=41209&recoff=7%208&ml_rpos=3
- ↑ Army Medal Office. WWI Medal Index Cards. In the care of The Western Front Association website.; Ancestry.com. British Army WWI Medal Rolls Index Cards, 1914-1920 [database on-line].; (£) https://www.ancestry.co.uk/interactive/1262/30850_A000321-00193?pid=3204858
- ↑ Commonwealth War Graves Commission; https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/274795/christie,-/
- ↑ National Army Museum; Chelsea, London, England; Soldiers' Effects Records, 1901-60; NAM Accession Number: 1991-02-333; Record Number Ranges: 766001-767500; Reference: 462; Ancestry.com. UK, Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects, 1901-1929 [database on-line].; (£) https://www.ancestry.co.uk/interactive/60506/42511_6117462_0168-00010?pid=228903
- Scotlands People Statutory Birth Register 476/1 49
- Genes Reunited 1901 Census, Denny Stirlingshire RG13
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