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Adam Brown
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 Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2007 2:20 pm Post subject: Coldingham, Berwickshire |
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Coldingham, Berwickshire
Location: In centre of village, beside junction for road to St Abbs.
OS Ref: NT 902 659
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Adam Brown
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There is also an informative panel behind this memorial:
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jamiemcginlay
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Adam I thought I might add another picture of the WWI panel, the letters don't seem to have been so weathered when I took it in the mid 90's.
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apanderson
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This photo shows where the panel is situated in relation to the memorial.
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Merseman
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Location: Duns, Berwickshire
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The Scotsman, 28th August 1923
COLDINGHAM - Major Waring, MP for East Lothian and Berwickshire, who was accompanied by the Dowager-Marchioness of Tweeddale, unveiled a war memorial at Coldingham on Sunday afternoon. There was a united open-air service, in which the ministers of Coldingham and St Abbs took part. Mr RB Bell, chairman of the Parish Council, accepted on behalf of that body the custody of the memorial, which bears the names of 39 men of the village and district who fell in the war.
The Buildings of Scotland - Borders, p182
War Memorial, corner of High Street and School Road, in a small garden. 1923, signed J Wood & Sons of Coldingham. Classically detailed with an inscribed face and carved wreath above. On top is a square sundial. |
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anne park
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Christopher Cowan Thorburn Lt 1st Gordon Highlanders b Partick 11/06/1894 Age 20 Killed in Action F & F 14/06/1917 Son of Richard Thorburn, Marine Engineer & Margaret Hume Cowan. Husband of Susan Purves Allan. 1901 Census: 17 Wood Street, Govan. 1911 Census: Edinburgh. Officers Book page 167. Arras Memorial M. R. 20 Panel 8 & 9
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stuartn
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Kenneth Morrison
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MABON, ALEXANDER 6th S.R.
Named on the Roxburgh Parish War Memorial as:
PTE. ALEXANDER MABON,
SCOTTISH RIFLES, FEBRUARY 24, 1919.
Alexander Mabon – age 39 – Private (41659) 5th/6th Battalion, Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)
In 1915 Alexander was a farm servant at Ladyrig, Roxburgh. He was wounded on 3 October 1918 and evacuated to the Special Military Surgical Hospital, Northfield, Birmingham where he died four months later.
Born 1879 in Edrom, Berwickshire. Son of the late Thomas Mabon (died 1892) and of Margaret (Clark) Mabon of Temple Hall Coldingham, Berwickshire.
Died of Wounds on 24 February 1919 and buried in COLDINGHAM PRIORY CHURCHYARD.
Also named on the Kelso War Memorial
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