The Scottish Military Research Group - Commemorations Project

DerekR · Posted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 12:56 pm Post subject:

UKNIWM Ref No. not listed
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Merseman · Joined: 07 Aug 2013 Posts: 311 Location: Duns, Berwickshire

The Buildings of Scotland - Borders, p478

War Memorial, West of the church. Celtic cross, c1920.

anne park · Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2015 7:19 am Post subject: Robert Donald High GH

Robert Donald High Lt 4th Gordon Highlanders b Monymusk 20/10/1880 Age 38 Killed in Action F & F 22/03/1918 Son of James High, Monymusk. 1881 Census: West Auchravie. 1891 Census: Hill of Balvack: Ferniebank Croft. 1901 Census: 55 Orchard Street, Aberdeen: Art Student. City Roll of Honour : Ladykirk, Berwick. Educated Robert Gordons. Officers Book page 242. Roll of Service in the Great War : page 82 : photo. Aberdeen University Book of Remembrance. Monymusk MI Entry 58 Son of James High & Jessie Bain. Arras Memorial M. R. 20 Panel 8 Column 22 AJ 08-01-19 Page 1 Aberdeen Weekly Journal 27-06-19 Page 6 City & Ladykirk Parish Church
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Researching WWI info from Aberdeenshire, Banffshire, Kincardineshire & Morayshire.

anne park · Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2015 7:32 am Post subject: David Moody

David Moody Company Serjeant Major 12673 1st Garrison Bn. Gordon Highlanders b Mertown 13/04/1885 e Melrose 42 Died Pakistan 06/06/1918 Son of David Moody + Jane Douglas. Father's Occ: Gamekeeper & Fisherman. 1891 Census: Bemersyde, Mertoun. Rawalpindi War Cemetery 4. B. 27. Jedburgh & Ladykirk Parish Church
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Researching WWI info from Aberdeenshire, Banffshire, Kincardineshire & Morayshire.

stuartn · Joined: 13 Dec 2016 Posts: 2468

The Cross is WMR 81413
The Roll of Honour is WMR 81414

Kenneth Morrison · Posted: Mon Mar 18, 2019 5:07 pm Post subject:

PTE. GEORGE WHITLEE. A.S.H.

I think that this is the man named on the Ednam Parish War Memorial in Roxburghshire as:

PTE. GEORGE THOMAS WHITTLE.
George Thomas Whittle – age 19 – Private (201943) 1/6th Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders.
George was a gardener at Ladykirk Hall, Berwickshire when he enlisted as Private (4070) in October 1916. He was posted to his battalion in France in November 1917 but he died in the 54th Casualty Clearing Station at Aire.
(Source: Jedburgh Gazette 24/5/1918 p.4 and Service record)

Born 1898 at Eglingham, New Bewick, Glendale, Northumberland. Son of the late Thomas Whittle (died 1903) and of Mary (Thompson) Whittle, and step-son of Walter Young of Eden Hall, Ednam and of Hoselaw, Ednam who had married Mary in 1906 in Rothbury, Northumberland.
Died of Wounds on 9 May 1918 and buried in Aire Communal Cemetery, France.
Also named on the Kelso War Memorial.
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Ken

Kenneth Morrison · Posted: Tue Jun 11, 2019 4:42 pm Post subject:

HENRY JOHNSTON on the Roll of Honour is named on the Kelso War Memorial as:

PTE. HENRY E. JOHNSTON.
Henry Elliot Johnston – age 19 – Private (23515) 2nd Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers.
Henry had been at the front for just three weeks when he was killed.
Born 1897 in Ladykirk, Berwickshire. Son of John and Margaret (Smith) Johnston of 3 Havannah Court, Kelso, Roxburghshire.
Missing in Action on 3 September 1916 and named on the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme, France.
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Ken