The Scottish Military Research Group - Commemorations Project

[David McNay]

Name: WALKER, WILLIAM BERESFORD
Initials: W B
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
Unit Text: 1st Bn.
Age: 23
Date of Death: 08/10/1918
Service No: S/3102
Additional information: Son of Duncan Blair and Marion Archibald Walker (nee Beresford), of 32, Commonside St., Airdrie, Lanarkshire.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: A. XX. 2.
Cemetery: PIETA MILITARY CEMETERY

[David McNay]

Name: WALLACE, WILLIAM AUSTINE E.
Initials: W A E
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Lance Corporal
Regiment/Service: Highland Light Infantry
Unit Text: 9th (Glasgow Hds.) Bn.
Age: 23
Date of Death: 12/04/1918
Service No: 331165
Additional Information: Son of John and Lillias Wallace (nee Gardner)
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 9.
Memorial: PLOEGSTEERT MEMORIAL

[David McNay]

Name: WATSON, THOMAS
Initials: T
Nationality: Canadian
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Canadian Infantry (Alberta Regiment)
Unit Text: 31st Bn.
Age: 29
Date of Death: 28/09/1916
Service No: 425616
Additional information: Son of James and Mary S. Watson, of Arthur Avenue, Airdrie, Scotland.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: B. 19. 54.
Cemetery: ST. SEVER CEMETERY, ROUEN

And his brother

GAVIN WATSON, Royal Engineers died 5th February 1921 aged 34 years

Not commemorated by CWGC - died of diabetes. Death certificate does not make any mention of military service. No military service record found.

[David McNay]

Name: WATT, WILLIAM JOHN
Initials: W J
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Battery Serjeant Major
Regiment/Service: Royal Field Artillery
Unit Text: "C" Bty. 7th Bde.
Age: 35
Date of Death: 08/04/1918
Service No: 37470
Additional information: Husband of Joan Dale (formerly Watt, nee Miller), of 7, South Marshall St., Grangemouth, Stirlingshire.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: VI. E. 14.
Cemetery: FAUBOURG D'AMIENS CEMETERY, ARRAS

[David McNay]

Name: WEIR, ALEXANDER
Initials: A
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Highland Light Infantry
Unit Text: 10th/11th Bn.
Age: 34
Date of Death: 09/04/1918
Service No: 41984
Additional information: Son of William and Catherine Weir (nee Shanks), of Ballochnie Farm, Plains, Airdrie.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 9.
Memorial: PLOEGSTEERT MEMORIAL

[David McNay]

Name: WILSON, CHARLES
Initials: C
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Ordinary Seaman
Regiment/Service: Royal Navy
Unit Text: H.M.S. Queen of Kent.
Age: 19
Date of Death: 28/02/1945
Service No: C/JX 671792
Additional information: Son of John and Margaret Wilson, of Blackridge, West Lothian.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: V. B. 87.
Cemetery: SCHOONSELHOF CEMETERY

[David McNay]

Name: WILSON, NEIL KEIR WEBSTER
Initials: N K W
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Pioneer
Regiment/Service: Royal Engineers
Unit Text: "A" Special Coy.
Age: 22
Date of Death: 04/09/1917
Service No: 184621
Additional information: Son of Robert and Catherine T. Wilson, of Bruce Terrace, Bellshill, Lanarkshire. SNWM lists birthplace as Bothwell, Lanarkshire
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: C. 3.
Cemetery: SAILLY-LABOURSE COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION

[David McNay]

Name: WILSON, THOMAS
Initials: T
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Royal Scots
Unit Text: 13th Bn.
Age: 28
Date of Death: 28/03/1918
Service No: 47534
Additional information: Son of Thomas S. and Annie Wilson, of " Sunnyside, " Commonhead, Airdrie.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Bay 1 and 2.
Memorial: ARRAS MEMORIAL

And his brother

Name: WILSON, ALEXANDER
Initials: A
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Sapper
Regiment/Service: Royal Engineers
Unit Text: 409th Lowland Field Coy.
Age: 24
Date of Death: 18/09/1918
Service No: 412387
Additional information: Son of Thomas S. and Annie Wilson, of “Sunnyside”, Commonhead, Airdrie.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: F. 7.
Cemetery: HANCOURT BRITISH CEMETERY

[David McNay]

Name: WILSON, THOMAS DOUGLAS
Initials: T D
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Second Lieutenant
Regiment/Service: Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
Unit Text: 7th Bn.
Age: 26
Date of Death: 23/04/1917
Additional information: Only Son of Lady Wilson, of Airdrie House, Airdrie, Lanarkshire and Kippen House, Dunning, Perthshire, and third son of the late Sir John Wilson, Bt. Husband of Kathleen Elise Knowles (formerly Wilson, nee Gray), of Kippen House, Dunning, Perthshire.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: I. A. 8.
Cemetery: CRUMP TRENCH BRITISH CEMETERY, FAMPOUX

Thomas Douglas Wilson is listed on Dunning War Memorial, Airdrie War Memorial and Fettes College War Memorial

[David McNay]

Name: WOOD, DAVID FREW
Initials: D F
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Captain
Regiment/Service: Royal Army Medical Corps
Unit Text: 4 Field Ambulance
Age: 37
Date of Death: 18/12/1944
Service No: 115779
Additional information: Son of Robert and Margaret Russell Wood (nee Frew). Husband of Winifred Elizabeth Wood. M.B., Ch. B. Born in Lanarkshire
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: 2. B. 3.
Cemetery: KLAGENFURT WAR CEMETERY

[David McNay]

Private James Baird, No. 3450. 9th Battalion Highland Light Infantry, was discharged on 3rd October 1916 as medically unfit due to seborrheic dermatitis of the scalp. It was aggravated by, but not caused by, his war service.

He died on 15th October 1918 from Influenza. As the caue of death differs to his cause of discharge, he does not qualify for inclusion by the CWGC.

His death certificate lists his parents as Robert Baird and Agnes Hamilton Baird (nee Bannatyne) - not Mary Baird (nee Scott) as stated on the gravestone.

[David McNay]

JOHN BORLAND, R.N., died at Plymouth 23rd May 1980 aged 64 years
Son of Samuel and Agness Borland (nee Hill).

[David McNay]

JOHN CARMICHAEL, V.C.
Who, as Sergeant in the North Staffordshire Regiment
Was awarded the Victoria Cross on 8th September 1917
Died on 26th December 1977 aged 84 years
Husband of Margaret Lockhart Aitken.

[David McNay]

JAMES DALZIEL, D.C.M.
Died 14th August 1934 aged 64 years
Husband of Rachael McKennan.

[David McNay]

JOHN WADDELL DICKSON (A. & S. H.) died 3rd April 2001 age 80
Son of James and Agnes Dickson (nee Waddell).