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

Kenneth Morrison · Posted: Sun Jan 31, 2021 11:41 am Post subject:

WILLIAM HALL.

Named on the Greenlaw Parish War Memorial in Berwickshire as:

WILLIAM HALL, S.R.
William Hall – age 27 – Private (1913) 5th Battalion, Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)
William was an underkeeper with the Earl of Haddington at Tyninghame, Prestonkirk when he enlisted at East Linton as Private (4256) in the Royal Scots in February 1916. He was posted to the 5th Scottish Rifles in France and had been at the front for only a few weeks when he was killed.
Born 1889 at Yester, Garvald, Haddington, East Lothian. Son of Andrew and Jane (Rankin) Hall of High Street, Greenlaw.
Missing in Action on 29 October 1916 and named on the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme, France.
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Ken