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IanA
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IanA
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IanA
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Impossible to get rid of the shadow of the railings but I think everything can be understood. |
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DerekR
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UKNIWM Ref No. not listed
Intersting why a small village like this should have 2 memorials, the larger cross having fewer names than that for the members of the Recreation Hall.
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Adam Brown
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Derek
The Recreation Rooms WM has a couple of men from Duns listed, which is only a couple of miles away. I wonder if it was a club before the Great War rather than a local village hall.
Preston WM names
1914-1918
BURNS , John C , Private , 11th Bn Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
COLVINE , John , Private , 2nd Bn King's Own Scottish Borderers
FORTUNE , Robert , Private , 6th Bn King's Own Scottish Borderers
GIBSON , John , Private , 2nd Bn King's Own Scottish Borderers
JOHNSTON , Wellwood M , Sergeant , 4th Bn King's Own Scottish Borderers
JOHNSTON , William , Lance Sergeant , 3rd Bn Coldstream Guards
SWORD , James R B , Private , 1st Bn King's Own Scottish Borderers
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Merseman
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Location: Duns, Berwickshire
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The Scotsman, 24th November 1920
Bunkle & Preston - A Celtic cross erected at Preston in memory of the men from the united parish of Bunkle & Preston, Berwickshire, was unveiled by the Earl of Home. A brief service in the Village Hall was conducted by Rev L Mair, parish minister.
The Buildings of Scotland - Borders, p642
War Memorial. North side of road, a Celtic cross, c1920. |
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stuartn
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Kenneth Morrison
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PTE. JAMES ROBERT BAILLIE SWORD 1st K.O.S.B.
KILLED IN ACTION FRANCE 26th NOV. 1917 AGED 24.
Named on the Ettrick Parish War Memorial in Selkirkshire as:
PTE. JAMES SWORD K.O.S.B.
James Baillie Sword – age 28 – Private (18061) 1st Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers.
James was a shepherd at Potburn, Ettrick when he enlisted. He joined the 1st KOSB at Gallipoli in July 1915 and was evacuated home due to illness before he rejoined his battalion in France in July 1916.
Born 1889 in Whittingehame, Haddington, East Lothian as James Robert Baillie Sword. Son of Robert and Mary (Jeffrey) Sword of Drakemire, Bunkle and Preston, Berwickshire and of Kirkknowe, Hartshaughmill, Bonchester, Roxburghshire.
(Source:1901 census and Hawick News 7/7/1916 p.4)
Missing in Action on 26 November 1917 and named on the Cambrai Memorial, Louverval, France.
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