Ronald Andrew Colquhoun Aitchison
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Ronald Andrew Colquhoun Aitchison (1895 - 1914)

Ronald Andrew Colquhoun Aitchison was born around 1895. He died on December 14, 1914 at 19 years old. He was buried in Strand Military Cemetery X. J. 9., Belgium.

Military service:
Rank: Lieutenant Regiment: King's Own (royal Lancaster Regiment) Unit/ship/squadron: 1st Bn. .
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Strand Military Cemetery X. J. 9.,
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Ronald Andrew Colquhoun Aitchison lived 46 years shorter than the average Aitchison family member when he died at the age of 19.

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Rank: Lieutenant
Regiment: King's Own (royal Lancaster Regiment)
Unit/ship/squadron: 1st Bn.

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Andrew Colquhoun

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1895 - In the year that Ronald Andrew Colquhoun Aitchison was born, on March 15th, in County Tipperary, Ireland, Michael Cleary killed his wife of 8 years, Bridget, and burned her body. His defense was that his "wife" was a changeling that was left in his real wife's place when she was abducted by fairies. He was nonetheless convicted and imprisoned for manslaughter. He spent 15 years in prison.

1904 - At the age of only 9 years old, Ronald was alive when the "Teddy's Bear" was first produced. After seeing a political cartoon of President Teddy Roosevelt refusing to kill a clubbed and tied up bear, Jewish Russian immigrant Morris Michtom - who owned a candy shop and sold stuffed animals that he and his wife made at night at the store - made a "Teddy's Bear" and put it in his shop's window. The stuffed bears were an immediate success and Michtom and his wife went on to found the Ideal Novelty and Toy Co.

1907 - Ronald was merely 12 years old when the second Hague peace conference was called by Russia in the Netherlands. While nothing was settled regarding the matter of peace among nations, many resolutions were passed (and accepted by many nations) about the conventions of war - especially the protection of noncombatants.

1911 - At the age of 16 years old, Ronald was alive when the first Indianapolis 500 was run in May. Ray Harroun was the winner - he was an engineer and had retired from racing but he came back for this race. After the race, he retired for good. The purse was $27,550 - the largest offered up to that time - and Harroun received $10,000 for first place. His average time was 74.602 mph.

1914 - In the year of Ronald Andrew Colquhoun Aitchison's passing, in August, the Panama Canal opened to traffic. Begun by the French in the 1880's and abandoned, the United States undertook further construction in 1904. After 10 years, and the elimination of malaria carrying mosquitoes (which caused immense delays for the French and the Americans), the 48 mile long artificial waterway - a series of locks - created a shortcut for ships traveling between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

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Ronald Andrew Colquhoun Aitchison passed away on December 14, 1914 at 19 years old. There is no known cause of death for Ronald. He was buried in Strand Military Cemetery X. J. 9., Belgium. He was born around 1895. There is no information about Ronald's surviving family.

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