The Scottish Military Research Group - Commemorations Project

Adam Brown · Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 12:50 am Post subject:

Note in this last image that Andrew Main's first name has been amended at some point.

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Adam Brown · Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2009 4:52 pm Post subject:

One of the Great War names

BINNING, Lord GEORGE BAILLIE HAMILTON
Rank: Brigadier General
Regiment/Service: Royal Horse Guards
Secondary Regiment: Lothians and Border Horse
Secondary Unit Text: Commanding
Age: 60
Date of Death: 12/01/1917
Awards: C B, M V O
Additional information: Son of George, 11th Earl of Haddington; husband of Lady Binning, of Tyninghame, Prestonkirk, East Lothian. Served in Egyptian Campaign (1882), and Black Mountain Expedition (1891).
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Cemetery: TYNNINGHAME BURIAL GROUND

Tyninghame House was one of the homes of the Earls of Haddington

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Adam Brown · Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2009 7:24 pm Post subject:

And some of the WW2 names.

GRAY, JOHN
Initials: J
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Lance Corporal
Regiment/Service: Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
Unit Text: 2nd Bn.
Age: 22
Date of Death: between 02/03/1942 and 03/03/1942
Service No: 3322704
Additional information: Son of Alexander and Jemima Gray, of Sea Cliff, East Lothian.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Column 81.
Memorial: SINGAPORE MEMORIAL

LAMBERT, JOHN
Rank: Sergeant (Pilot)
Regiment/Service: Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Unit Text: 145 Sqdn.
Age: 20
Date of Death: 07/10/1944
Service No: 1569643
Additional information: Son of Charles D. and Norah Lambert, of North Berwick, East Lothian.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: I. F. 20.
Cemetery: RAVENNA WAR CEMETERY

Matthew T Low could be...

LOW, MATTHEW THOMAS
Rank: Signalman
Regiment/Service: Royal Canadian Corps of Signals
Secondary Unit Text: attd. H.Q. 3rd Cdn. Inf. Bde.
Age: 21
Date of Death: 15/07/1945
Service No: W/2073
Additional information: Son of Carr James Low and Elizabeth Gillies Low, of Jedburgh, Roxburghshire, Scotland.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: V. F. 11.
Cemetery: HOLTEN CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY

John A MacNaughton could be...

MACNAUGHTON, JOHN ALLAN
Rank: Sergeant (Air Gnr.)
Regiment/Service: Royal Air Force
Unit Text: 42 Sqdn.
Age: 24
Date of Death: 28/09/1940
Service No: 522280
Additional information: Son of Malcolm Macnaughton and of Pace Macnaughton, of Edinburgh.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Grave 2.
Cemetery: TREGUNC COMMUNAL CEMETERY

PORTEOUS, CHARLES WOOD
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
Unit Text: 8th Bn.
Age: 24
Date of Death: 07/04/1943
Service No: 2985303
Additional information: Son of James and Helen Bruce Porteous, of North Berwick, East Lothian.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: 1. K. 9.
Cemetery: OUED ZARGA WAR CEMETERY
Also listed on the North Berwick War Memorial