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IanA
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 Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2007 6:39 pm Post subject: Foulden, Berwickshire |
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The cross is inscribed: "Ye are Bought with a Price".
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IanA
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IanA
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IanA
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Adam Brown
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A transcription of the names:
1914-1919
DUNN , G F , Private , 1/5th Bn King's Own Scottish Borderers
GILCHRIST , Peter A , Private , King's Own Scottish Borderers
GILCHRIST , William , Private , 1st Bn Northumberland Fusiliers
HUNTER , David , Major , Special List
KEIR , T D , Private , 12th Bn Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
OVENS , John , Private , New Zealand Pioneer Battalion
PURVES , Thomas J , Private , 1/4th Bn King's Own Scottish Borderers
REID , W L , Captain , 2nd Bn The Dorsetshire Regiment
REID , John S G , Lietenant DSC , Royal Naval Reserve (Submarines)
SPENCE , P , Private , 2nd Bn King's Own Scottish Borderers
THOMSON , P , Lance Corporal , 7/8th Bn Bn King's Own Scottish Borderers
Adam
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Adam Brown
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Here is Lt Reid RN DSCs CWGC details:
Name: REID, JOHN STEWART GILCHRIST
Initials: J S G
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Lieutenant
Regiment/Service: Royal Naval Reserve
Unit Text: H.M. Submarine L.55.
Age: 33
Date of Death: 09/06/1919
Awards: DSC
Additional information: Husband of Irene Helen Reid, of 50, Morpeth Mansions, London.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Screen Wall. "L.55" grave.
Cemetery: HASLAR ROYAL NAVAL CEMETERY
The location of his burial gives no clues to Lt Reid's death. At first glance you would assume he died of natural causes after the war. In fact he died on a patrol near Kronstadt in the baltic. The bodies of the crew of L55 were recovered by the Soviets in 1928 and returned for burial in the UK.
For more information, and another new memorial that Lt Reid is listed on go here:
[url]
http://www.memorials.inportsmouth.co.uk/churches/cathedral/baltic.htm[/url]
I believe L55 entered Soviet service but was lost again with it's Russian crew.
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IanA
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Hi Adam,
I believe your transcription contains an error re William Leonard Reid of the Dorsets. You have him as 'A.L. Reid'.
He was the son of the Rev. John Reid of Foulden Manse.
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Adam Brown
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Ian
You are right. I will correct it. It was raining and blowing a gale when I transcribed it so I rushed it a bit.
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DerekR
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UKNIWM Ref: 13315
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DelBoy
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| Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2013 1:55 am Post subject: Capt. William Leonard Reid |
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| IanA wrote: | Hi Adam,
I believe your transcription contains an error re William Leonard Reid of the Dorsets. You have him as 'A.L. Reid'.
He was the son of the Rev. John Reid of Foulden Manse.
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| Adam Brown wrote: | Ian
You are right. I will correct it. It was raining and blowing a gale when I transcribed it so I rushed it a bit.
Regards
Adam |
(Glasgow Herald 21st April 1915)
"A telegram from the War Office has been received by the Rev. John Reid, minister of Foulden, Berwickshire, informing him of the death of his second son, Captain W.L. Reid, 2nd Dorsetshire Regiment. He was wounded at the battle of Shaiba, Persian Gulf, on the 14th inst. Captain Reid joined the 2nd Dorsets from Sandhurst in 1909 , and went to India in January 1910, became Lieutenant in January 1912, and was gazetted Captain in March last. He went with the Indian Expedition to Basra, where he acted as German interpreter to the Expeditionary Force. Recently his Colonel specially requested that he might be allowed to join his regiment again. Captain Reid was in his 25th year and has three brothers in the services."
CWGC
REID, WILLIAM LEONARD
Rank: Captain
Date of Death: 15/04/1915
Age: 24
Regiment/Service: Dorsetshire Regiment 2nd Bn.
Grave Reference: III. E. 21.
Cemetery: BASRA WAR CEMETERY
Additional Information: Son of the Rev. John Reid and Mrs. Martha Craig Gilchrist Reid, of Foulden Manse, Berwick-on-Tweed.
SNWM
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Elsie
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| Posted: Fri Apr 12, 2013 1:22 pm Post subject: Foulden |
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The UKNIWM number given for Foulden is incorrect. This number brings up Chapel Carmel in Wales.
There does not seem to be a number listed for Foulden.
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Elsie
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| Posted: Fri Apr 12, 2013 1:51 pm Post subject: Foulden |
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 In the centre of the Foulden page the UKNIWM number is given correctly. It is wrong on the List of Memorials
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Merseman
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The Scotsman, 24th August 1920
FOULDEN WAR MEMORIAL - Captain Balfour of Newton Don, Lord-Lieutenant of Berwickshire, unveiled on the village green on Sunday afternoon a memorial of handsome design to the men of Foulden who had fallen in the war. The cross, which is octagonal in shape, rises from three plinths, and on the topmost plinth the names of the eleven men from the village who have fallen are embossed in gilt on bronze plates.
The Scotsman, 31st August 1920
FOULDEN - A handsome war memorial cross has been erected on the green in front of Foulden village, Berwickshire. The monument is octagonal, and bearing in front of the shaft a raised Crusader's sword. Its total heigh with base and plinth is 15 feet. On the third base plinth is carved, "Ye are bought with a price", and on the plinth from which the shaft rises are three bronze plaques with gilt lettering, bearing as a central inscription "Who won immortal honour", and on the flanking plaques the names of the fallen parishioners, eleven of all, two of whom are sons of the parish minister. The cross was unveiled by Captain CB Balfour of Newton Don, Lord-Lieutenant of Berwickshire, and dedicated by the Ref Alfred McKeachie, minister of Chirnside.
The Buildings of Scotland - Borders, p291
War Memorial. A cross with coped octagonal shafts and an embossed sword, c1920. Pedestal inscribed with "Ye are Bought with a Price". |
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Adam Brown
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| Merseman wrote: | The Scotsman, 24th August 1920
FOULDEN WAR MEMORIAL..., and on the topmost plinth the names... are embossed in gilt on bronze plates. |
Not any more I see.
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