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Birkenhead News 28 April 1915CAPTAIN MACIVER KILLED
Dies From Wounds at the Front.
A TERRITORIAL ENTHUSIAST AND PROMINENT SHIPOWNER.
Everybody in Birkenhead and Wirral will learn with deep regret that Captain Andrew T. S. MacIver, the Cheshire Field Company Royal Engineers, of Gale How, Prenton, died of wounds on Saturday 24th April, at the front in Northern France or Belgium. He was 37 years of age, and leaves a widow and one little boy. He was the son of the late Mr. David MacIver, M.P. for Kirkdale, and he married Miss Florence Crosthwaite, daughter of Alderman Crosthwaite, of Liverpool. Not long ago he lost a little son, leaving one surviving.
Captain Andrew MacIver had been at the front since December. About six weeks ago he had a few days leave and was in Birkenhead. He was a shipowner and was a partner in the firm of David MacIver and Co., and managing director of David MacIver, Sons and Co., Ltd. He was Lieutenant-Colonel of the City of Liverpool Cadet Battalion the King’s (Liverpool) Regiment. And had occupied that position since the battalion’s inception in 1911 up to the time of his death. Before the inauguration of the Territorial Force he was with the Cheshire Volunteer Engineers, and when the present system came into operation he went on to the reserve of officers. On the outbreak of war he rejoined his old company in its new form, and volunteered for active service. He was a member of the Birkenhead Constitutional Club, but never took any active part in politics, all his time apart from his business being taken up with the Territorial and Cadet work.
Captain Macliver’s cousin is also serving his country - Mr. C. R. MacIver, son of Mr. Charles MacIver, J.P., of Heswall. The captain was a brother of Miss Edith MacIver, member of the Birkenhead Board of Guardians, and of Mr. David MacIver of the Birkenhead Town Council. His widow has from the commencement of the war taken a very prominent part in the work of the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Families’ Association; she is at present, we understand, at Windermere.
The flag was half-mast at the Constitution Club yesterday.
The unit war diaries record that at the time of Andrew MacIver’s death the company were based around the Belgian village of La Clytte. It describes that the men were undergoing various tasks in the area and on the 24th April reports that Captain MacIver was wounded and died that same day.
Information by Chris