SECOND LIEUTENANT WILLIAM FYVIE
ROYAL SCOTS
26TH AUGUST 1917 AGE 32
BURIED: HARGICOURT BRITISH CEMETERY, FRANCE
William Fyvie was born in Fraserburgh, Scotland in 1885. In 1901, at the age of 15, he was still in Fraserburgh working as an apprentice draper. When the war broke out he was in Fiji, part of a small European community of fewer than 4,000 men, women and children. He returned to England in November 1915. By this time his parents had emigrated to South Africa. It was they who chose his inscription, ensuring that his connection to Fiji was recorded on his headstone and that of his birth in Fraserburgh in the cemetery register.