Lockie, Thomas

Engineer Lieutenant Thomas Corbett Lockie.

Royal Navy

l918 -  October 7.

THERE died in the Royal Naval Hospital, Chatham, on the 7th October 1918, from injuries received as the result of an internal explosion on board His Majesty's ship Glatton, Engineer-Lieutenant

THOMAS CORBETT LOCKIE, Royal Navy, aged 36 years, eldest son of John Lockie, Civil Engineer, 7 Hermitage Place, The Links, Leith, and husband of Jean U. F. Heriot, 8 Albany Street, Kelvinside,

Glasgow.

Lieutenant Lockie was educated at George Watson's College, Edinburgh, and on the conclusion of school days served his apprenticeship as an engineer with Messrs Hawthorn & Co., Leith.

He was one of the original members of the Highland Battalion of the Queen's Edinburgh Rifle Volunteer Brigade, and served in the Boer War, with distinction, in the 19th Imperial Yeomanry. On his return to civil life he entered the service of the White Star Line, and gained a chief engineer's certificate. He was on the staff of The Mirrlees Watson Co., Ltd., Glasgow, when war broke out. He joined the Navy in 1915, with the rank of Engineer-Lieutenant. He was a member of the Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland, and a member of the Institute of Marine Engineers, London.

Lieutenant Lockie left a widow (a daughter of the late John F. Heriot, Elibank Villa, Peebles), and one son.

Bold watchers of the deeps,

Guards of the greater ways,

How shall our swelling hearts express

Our heights and depths of thankfulness

For these safe-guarded days!

Grim is your vigil there,

Black day and blacker night,

Watching for life, while knavish Death

Lurks all around, above, beneath,

Waiting his chance to smite.

Source: The Book of Remembrance for Tweeddale – Peebles Book 2 - Pages 262 and 263

Name: LOCKIE, THOMAS CORBETT 

Initials: T C

Nationality: United Kingdom

Rank: Engineer Lieutenant

Regiment/Service: Royal Navy

Unit Text: H.M.S. "Glatton."

Age: 36

Date of Death: 07/10/1918

Additional information: Son of John Lockie and Jessie Morris Lockie; husband of Jean Mary Fernie

Herriot Lockie, of 8, Albany St., Glasgow. Born at Leith, Edinburgh.

Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead

Grave/Memorial Reference: 2058.

Cemetery: PEEBLES CEMETERY