| Regiment/Service: |
6th Battalion, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers (British Army) |
| Date Of Birth: |
13/12/1887
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| Died: |
09/10/1916 (Killed in Action) |
| Age: |
28 |
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Vincent Andrews Acheson was born on 13 December 1887. Vincent was the son of David and Sarah Acheson of Drumreany, Castlecaulfield. Vincent had an older brother Frank D Acheson, who was born around.1880. Vincent studied at Lurgan and then at St Andrews College, Dublin. He captained Dungannon Rugby Club. On the death of his father in 1912, he took charge of the Castlecaulfield factory, the linen manufacturing firm trading as Acheson & Smith Limited. He later married Agnes Swan, of Broughty Ferry (near Dundee) , Scotland. They had a son, David.
On the outbreak of the war, he had at once volunteered and had joined the 6th (Service) Battalion of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers as a private. He soon obtained a commission in January 1915, was appointed Captain, and in the succeeding autumn, gained his company. Captain Vincent A. Acheson died during the Salonika Campaign, on 10th September, 1916.
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Struma Military Cemetery is 65 kilometres north-east of Thessaloniki, before the village of Kalokastro and on the way to Serres town. Access is by a sign-posted track.
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