The Scottish Military Research Group - Commemorations Project

DerekR · Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 9:15 pm Post subject:

UKNIWM Ref No. not listed

A very attractive memorial, one of the very few stained glass windows that I've seen on the subject.
Also interesting to note that the casualties from both wars are equal in number - another rarity.
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Adam Brown · Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2007 7:56 pm Post subject:

Should this count as the civic memorial for Eccles covering the parish rather than the church congregation?

Adam

Adam Brown · Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2007 8:04 pm Post subject:

The names listed:

1914-1918

BRIGGS , James , Sergeant Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders
COCKBURN , William , Private King's Own Scottish Borderers
COULTER , R , Private King's Own Scottish Borderers
COWE , John , Private Seaforth Highlanders
CRAIG , James A , Private King's Own Scottish Borderers
ELLIOT , Robert , Signaller Royal Field Artillery
HALLIDAY , John , 2nd Lieutenant West Yorkshire Regiment
HARDIE , James , Private Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders
HARDIE , John , Private King's Own Scottish Borderers
KERSE , Charles , Lance Corporal Royal Army Veterinary Corps
NAIRN , Andrew , Private King's Own Scottish Borderers
NEIL , William W , Private King's Own Scottish Borderers
SOMERVILLE , William , Private Canadian Expeditionary Force
SOMERVILLE , George , Gunner Royal Navy
WILSON , Robert S , Corporal King's Own Scottish Borderers

1939-1945

BELL , John , Sergeant Royal Air Force
BELL , Robert M , Private King's Own Scottish Borderers
BUCHAN , Ian , Corporal Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)
CAMPBELL , Fred J , Trooper Northumberland Hussars
FORBES , Robert R , Private Australian Imperial Force
GALBRAITH , William , Private Lincolnshire Regiment
LEE , Reginald W , Wireless Operator Merchant Navy
LYLE , Ian , Sergeant Royal Air Force
LYLE , Alexander , Driver Royal Army Service Corps
PAXTON , Thomas , Flight Sergeant Royal Air Force
PURVES , Peter L , Lance Bombardier Royal Horse Artillery
ROSS , Leslie E , Piper King's Own Scottish Borderers
SMYTH , John S , Flying Officer Royal Air Force
TULLOCH , Ronald S , Lieutenant Royal Engineers
WOOD , Thomas , Flying Officer Royal Air Force

DerekR · Posted: Mon Mar 25, 2013 11:12 am Post subject:

My thanks to Alison Greenshields for the photographs. And to Ruth Holmes.

From the Buildings of Scotland (Borders) - the War Memorial window, 1948 by Douglas McLundie of the Abbey Studio.

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stuartn · Joined: 13 Dec 2016 Posts: 2468

WMR 78830 & 78831

Kenneth Morrison · Posted: Sun Apr 07, 2019 10:16 am Post subject:

WW1

ROBERT S WILSON.

Named on the Roxburgh Parish War Memorial as:

CORPL. ROBERT S. WILSON,
K.O.S.B., APRIL 9, 1917.
Robert John Spence Wilson – age 26 – Private (29855) 7th/8th Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers.
Robert had been a gardener at Sunlaws House, Roxburgh for 9 years when he enlisted in the KOSB Reserve in December 1914.
Born 1890 at Fairnington Farm, Roxburgh, indexed as Robert Spencer Wilson.
[Note: SNWM and D&G Standard 9/12/1914 p.9 have him as born in Ecclfechan, Hoddom, Dumfriesshire but I cannot trace]
Son of Robert and Elizabeth (Cunningham) Wilson of Springwells Farm, Eccles, Berwickshire.
Missing in Action on 9 April 1917 and named on the Arras Memorial, France.
Also named on the Kelso War Memorial in Roxburghshire
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Ken