The Scottish Military Research Group - Commemorations Project

[Adam Brown]

East Linton & Prestonkirk Parish War Memorial
Location: Memorial Park
OS Ref: NT 589 772

The memorial park in East Linton is tucked away down a side street. Look out for a small arrow saying 'Memorial Park' at the entrance of School Road off the High Street.

[Adam Brown]

A small plaque at the rear of the obelisk.



The park is signposted as the Memorial Park but there is nothing at the memorial or the park entrance to indicate whether it is a war memorial park.

If it is here's a photograph of it from beside the memorial

[DelBoy]

WW1
John Fraser

(Glasgow Herald 24th April 1915)
"News has been received by his sister, who resides in Galashiels, of the death of Private John Fraser, of the 8th Royal Scots. A native of Prestonkirk, he was among the first Territorials sent to France, and along with others he exchanged greetings with the German soldiers in the trenches at Christmas time."

CWGC
FRASER, J
Rank: Private
Service No: 1117
Date of Death: 09/04/1915
Regiment/Service: Royal Scots 8th Bn.
Grave Reference: II. D. 28.
Cemetery: RUE-DU-BOIS MILITARY CEMETERY, FLEURBAIX

SNWM
Surname: FRASER
Firstname: John
Service Number: 1117
Date Death: 09/04/1915
Place of birth: East Linton
Other: 8th Bn.
SNWM roll: THE ROYAL SCOTS (LOTHIAN REGIMENT)
Rank: Pte
Theatre of death: F.& F.

[Kenneth Morrison]

I wonder when Andrew Combe's name was added and why it was "missed" ?

COMBE, ANDREW.
Rank:Lance Corporal
Service No:3051830
Date of Death:Between 26/05/1940 and 27/05/1940
Age:36
Regiment/Service:Royal Scots
1st Bn.
Grave Reference1. A. 5.
CemeteryLE PARADIS WAR CEMETERY, LESTREM
Additional Information:
Son of Andrew and Mary Jane Combe; husband of Maria Walker Riding Flockhart Combe, of East Linton, East Lothian.

This cemetery contains the remains of men from the 2nd Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment murdered by members of the 2nd SS Regiment in May 1940. See CWGC notes.
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Ken

[DelBoy]

IN HONOURED MEMORY OF THE MEN OF
EAST LINTON & PARISH OF PRESTONKIRK
WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE GREAT WAR

Adam Johnston
Alex. C, Greig
Alex. Lawrence
Alex. Lockhart
Alex. Pennycook
Alex. K. Walker
George Greirson
George Laing
George White
Gideon Watt
James Beveridge
James Campbell
James Docherty
James Fraser
James C. Sandie
James A. Tait
James Walker
J.C. Blackhall
John Craig
John Fraser
John Hume
John Logan
John C. McPhail
John Reid
John Morie
John A. Tait
John Wilson
Kenneth Mills
Robert G.E. Stewart
Thomas Aitken
Thomas Greig
Thomas Murdoch
William Aitken
William Currie
William Hood
William S. Logan
William Thomson
William H. White

IN HONOURED MEMORY OF THE MEN OF
EAST LINTON & PARISH OF PRESTONKIRK
WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE SECOND
WORLD WAR

Alexander W. Mason
David A. Polson
Duncan B. Stewart
George A. McLennan
George M. Munro
John H. Logan
Kenneth L. McLennan
Peter MacFarlane
Robert Taylor
Robert S. Faichen
Taylor Scambler
Thomas W. Briggs
Thomas A. Brown
William Craig
Andrew Combe

"THEY DIED THAT WE MIGHT LIVE"
1939 1945

[Kenneth Morrison]

MACFARLANE, PETER.
Rank:Lance Corporal
Service No:3194351
Date of Death:18/09/1944
Age:28
Regiment/Service:King's Own Scottish Borderers 7th (Airborne) Bn.
Grave Reference23. A. 2.
Cemetery ARNHEM OOSTERBEEK WAR CEMETERY
Additional Information:
Son of Donald and Jeannie Macfarlane, of East Linton, East Lothian.

Killed on the 2nd day of the Battle of Arnhem.
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Ken

[DerekR]

LAWRENCE, A S

Rank: Private
Service No: 325767
Date of Death: 12/10/1917
Age: 36
Regiment/Service: Royal Scots, 9th Bn.
Grave Reference: I. B. 47.
Cemetery: WANCOURT BRITISH CEMETERY
Additional Information: Son of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence, of Hawick; husband of Jessie Forrest Lawrence, of 26, Trinity St., Hawick, Roxburghshire.
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Time but th' impression stronger makes, As streams their channels deeper wear.