He was the second son of Col. William Mathwin Angus of Framlington House, commanding 1st Newcastle-on-Tyne Volunteer Artillery. He was twenty years of age and educated at Rugby. He joined the I.Y., in Feb. 1901 from the 1st Newcastle-on-Tyne Volunteer Artillery: and when killed was in charge of a flanking party which was suddenly attacked. Col. Pilcher wrote "deploring the loss" of Lieut. Angus.From 'The Last Post’, Mildred G. Dooner, published 1903.
Acknowledgments: Colin Boyd
William Gordon Angus is remembered at Gateshead on G39.017 in Newcastle on NUT017 and in Benwell on B86.20