The Scottish Military Research Group - Commemorations Project

IanA · Joined: 19 Dec 2006 Posts: 950

Located on the B 6460 leading from the village to Paxton House.

IanA · Joined: 19 Dec 2006 Posts: 950

IanA · Joined: 19 Dec 2006 Posts: 950

IanA · Joined: 19 Dec 2006 Posts: 950

Transcription:

Lt Col David William Milne Home RGA
Cpl Francis Joseph Rand BR
Gunner Peter Geddes Hendry RGA
Pte George Murray Allan RSF
Pte John Cowe Seaforth Highlanders
Pte Thomas Fergie KOSB
Pte John Hendry KOSB
Pte William H Schooler KOSB
Pte William A Spiden Seaforth Highlanders

1939-45

Baird D Pte KOSB
Lowrie J Craftsman REME
Mabon JB Pte RNF
Moffat WB Sgt Pilot RAF
Wooley WA Sgt Pilot RAF

DerekR · Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 8:38 pm Post subject:

UKNIWM Ref No. not listed
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Time but th' impression stronger makes, As streams their channels deeper wear.

DerekR · Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2009 9:40 pm Post subject:

My thanks to Skwirrel for this postcard:

Name: HENDRY, JOHN
Initials: J
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: King's Own Scottish Borderers
Unit Text: 1st/4th Bn.
Age: 20
Date of Death: 12/07/1915
Service No: 7438
Additional information: Son of the Rev. P. G. Hendry, M.A. and Margaret Hendry, of Paxton Manse, Berwick-on-Tweed. Law Apprentice.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 84 to 92 or 220 to 222.
Memorial: HELLES MEMORIAL
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Time but th' impression stronger makes, As streams their channels deeper wear.

DerekR · Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2009 9:42 pm Post subject:

Name: HENDRY, PETER GEDDES
Initials: P G
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Gunner
Regiment/Service: Royal Garrison Artillery
Unit Text: 326th Siege Bty.
Age: 19
Date of Death: 06/02/1918
Service No: 152252
Additional information: Son of the Rev. P. G. Hendry, M.A., and Margaret Hendry, of Paxton Manse, Berwick-on-Tweed. Student of Medicine, Edinburgh University. Native of Mordington, Berwickshire.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: XI. B. 5.
Cemetery: VILLERS STATION CEMETERY, VILLERS-AU-BOIS
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Time but th' impression stronger makes, As streams their channels deeper wear.

Merseman · Joined: 07 Aug 2013 Posts: 307 Location: Duns, Berwickshire

The Scotsman, 27th April 1920

BERWICK - Special dedication services were held at Hutton and Paxton parishes, Berwick, when three war memorials were unveiled by the Very Rev Jas Cooper DD, Professor of Church History, Glasgow University. In the old church at Hutton an oak chancel set, pulpit and lectern was dedicated to the memory of the late Colonel David Milne Home, laird of Billie and Paxton, who died while holding the command of the RGA at Leith Fort in 1918. In the churchyard at Hutton a Celtic cross, bearing the names of those who had fallen in the war, was unveiled; and at a service held later at Paxton a similar cross was unveiled by Dr Cooper.

The Buildings of Scotland - Borders, p606

War Memorial. Celtic cross in pink sandstone, c1920.

stuartn · Joined: 13 Dec 2016 Posts: 2461

WMR 81135

Kenneth Morrison · Posted: Tue Oct 08, 2019 11:17 am Post subject:

A WW2 name.

Named on the Jedburgh War Memorial in Roxburghshire as:

LOWRIE, JOSEPH CRAFTSMAN. R. E. M. E.
Joseph Lowrie – age 37 – Craftsman (14210891) Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers.
Joseph had been a gardener at Clifton Park. Linton Roxburghshire before becoming a chauffeur to Colonel Home of Bassendean House, Berwickshire. Joseph was attached to the 2nd Lothians and Border Horse Yeomanry in the 6th Armoured Division when he was killed.
Born 1906 in Mordington, Berwickshire. Son of the late Andrew Lowrie, formerly a shepherd at Hundalee, Jedburgh (died 1942) and of Mary Farmer (Waddell) Lowrie of 18 Thornfield Avenue, Selkirk. Husband of Agnes (Fergie) Lowrie of Clairvale, Paxton, Berwickshire and of Berwick-on-Tweed who he married in 1933 in Hutton, Berwickshire.
Killed in Action on 20 July 1944 and buried in Assisi War Cemetery, Italy.
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Ken