Alex McCurdie

Alexander McCurdie was a Scottish professional footballer who played as a centre forward in the Scottish League for Kilmarnock.

Personal life

McCurdie attended Glasgow University. In May 1915, 9 months after Britain's entry into the First World War, McCurdie enlisted in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. He arrived on the Western Front in June 1916 and saw action at the Battle of the Ancre five months later. By April 1917, he had been promoted to acting lance-sergeant and had been recommended for the DCM. McCurdie was killed while on patrol in Beaucamps, Nord on 24 April 1917 and he was buried in Fifteen Ravine British Cemetery, Villers-Plouich.