The Scottish Military Research Group - Commemorations Project

[Regulus1]

Ran into this clip about a discovered memorial to this soldier.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=1CPbuhnrxFk

Or you can watch it on my site :

http://flower-of-scotland.skynetblogs.be/

[spoons]

Thanks for posting this.

I could just make out the date of death on the video, it is this man.

Name: REID, JAMES
Initials: J
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Royal Scots Fusiliers
Unit Text: 1st/5th Bn.
Date of Death: 12/07/1915
Service No: 7547
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 72 to 75.
Memorial: HELLES MEMORIAL

It seems like he died in Gallipoli on the 'inglorious' 12th.

I have seen these certificates before and normally I would say that they are not war memorials. But in this case it was framed and placed in his former place of work thus it was intended to be a memorial. I would be interested to hear others views and I would also like to get a decent photo of it and record where it ends up.

[DerekR]

Fascinating.
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[KevinStoke]

Derek, that is very similar to the one Dan found for me to my great uncle, unfortunatley though mine is not quite in that condition. Reids scroll is a brilliant piece of history, I wonder where it will end up.

[stuartn]

In my view, this is clearly a memorial, under the National Definitions. Unfortunately there is not enough information to raise a record for it, from this film.