Roll of Honour
Lieutenant
Andrew Stenhouse
Student
Lieutenant Andrew Stenhouse was born in 1892 in Dumbarton to James and Isabella Stenhouse. Stenhouse attended the University of Glasgow from 1910 to 1914 where he studied Medicine. Stenhouse was a very capable student and excelled in Physics. He was awarded a 2nd Class Certificate in the subject during the 1912 to 1913 academic year.
Sadly, Stenhouse did not return for the 1914 to 1915 academic year to complete his final year of Medicine since he was one of the first men that volunteered to serve in the army during the Great War. When Britain declared war on Germany on the 5th of August 1914 and appeals for volunteers to expand the army were issued a mere two days later, Stenhouse would have been amongst the first men to volunteer and at the age of 22, he would have been the prime soldier age as the army expressed demand for volunteers between the ages of 19 and 35. Stenhouse might have been led to believe like so many others that the war would only last till Christmas of 1914. This was the assumption made popular by the British government (Lord Kitchener not included) which was effectively used to encourage volunteers.
Despite the war lasting well past 1914, Stenhouse who served in the 10th Cameronians (Scottish Rifles), fought at the Battle of Loos. He died on the 27th of September 1915. He is one of the 20,000 soldiers with no grave who were commemorated by the Loos Memorial.