Alfred Thomas Logan was 22 years old in 1910 when he first attended the University of Glasgow to study medicine. He was son of Thomas Logan, a bookkeeper, and Mary Bisset Logan, of 10, Regent Park Terrace, Strathbungo, Glasgow.
Alfred graduated in MBChB in 1915 and in the same year entered the Royal Army Medical Corps and served as Lieutenant then Captain in the Special Reserve - 3rd Battalion Grenadier Guards. He was killed in action on 16 September 1916 during the Battle of the Somme and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial in Somme, France. The Thiepval Memorial, the Memorial to the Missing of the Somme, bears the names of more than 72,000 officers and men of the United Kingdom and South African forces who died in the Somme sector before 20 March 1918 and have no known grave. Over 90% of those commemorated died between July and November 1916.
From the guide to the Papers of Alfred Thomas Logan, medical graduate, University of Glasgow, Scotland, 1915, (Glasgow University Archive Services)
