Professor Alexander Craig Aitken^{[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]}

1895 - 1967  (72 years)

• Name	Professor Alexander Craig Aitken  [2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]
  Birth	1 Apr 1895	Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand   [5, 6, 8]
  Gender	Male
  Death	3 Nov 1967	Edinburgh Midlothian Scotland   [4, 5, 8, 9]
  Burial	7 Nov 1967	Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh, Scotland   [8, 9]
  Person ID	I172033368342	My Genealogy
  Last Modified	17 Feb 2025

  
  

  Father	William Aitken,   b. 1872, Maungatua, Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand d. 16 Jan 1947, Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand (Age 75 years)
  Mother	Elizabeth Towers,   b. Jul 1875, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England d. 31 Mar 1910, Dunedin, New Zealand (Age 34 years)
  Marriage	1894	New Zealand   [7]
  Family ID	F1886	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mary Winifred Betts,   b. April 1894, Nelson, New Zealand d. 29 Apr 1971, Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh, Scotland (Age 77 years)
  Marriage	1920	New Zealand   [7]
  Children	1. Margaret Aitken,   b. 10 Apr 1925, Scotland d. 2015 (Age 89 years)   2. George Craig Aitken,   b. 18 Apr 1927, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland d. 30 Apr 1997, Coldstream, Berwickshire, Scotland (Age 70 years)
  Family ID	F3781	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	17 Feb 2025

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 1 Apr 1895 - Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand Marriage - 1920 - New Zealand Death - 3 Nov 1967 - Edinburgh Midlothian Scotland Burial - 7 Nov 1967 - Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh, Scotland  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  Aitken's studies were interrupted by the outbreak of war. His experiences at Gallipoli and in northern France, where he was wounded in one of the futile engagements that made up the Battle of the Somme, are recounted in his memoir Gallipoli to the Somme. For the rest of his life , at five yearly intervals on "Somme anniversaries", Aitken fell into periods of insomnia and depression. Aitken was invalided home in 1917 and resumed his studies the following year

  
  

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