The Scottish Military Research Group - Commemorations Project

spoons · Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 10:48 pm Post subject: 2LT J Maxwell, Buittle church

I could have sworn that I posted this and the other 2 Maxwell memorials from Buittle several weeks ago. Either the system 'ate' them or senility is setting in Laughing

UKNIWM Ref: 44358

Location - inside Buittle church at OS Map Ref: NX 808 598

spoons · Posted: Sun Dec 13, 2009 8:40 pm Post subject:

Name: MAXWELL, JOHN
Initials: J
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Second Lieutenant
Regiment/Service: Royal Scots Fusiliers
Unit Text: 5th Bn.
Age: 26
Date of Death: 12/07/1915
Additional information: Son of William Jardine Herries Maxwell and Dorothea Fitzgerald Herries Maxwell, of Munches, Dalbeattie, Stewartry of Kirkcudbright.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 72 to 75.
Memorial: HELLES MEMORIAL

this is a better photo

Kenneth Morrison · Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2017 7:45 pm Post subject:

John Maxwell – age 26 – Second Lieutenant: 1/5th Battalion, Royal Scots Fusiliers.
John was educated at Ardvreck School in Crieff, at Cheltenham College and studied law at Edinburgh University (1910 - 1912) while he was an apprentice accountant in Edinburgh. He held a commission in the 4th Royal Scots (Queen's Edinburgh Rifles) and was promoted to Lieutenant in the 5th Battalion in September 1914. However on 28 January 1915 he resigned this commission to take a 2nd Lt. post with the 5th RSF.
Born 1889 at Terraughtie House, Troqueer, Kirkcudbrightshire. Son of William Jardine Herries-Maxwell and Dorothea Fitzgerald (Maitland-Kirwan)
Herries-Maxwell of Munches, Buittle.
Missing in Action on 12 July 1915 andnamed on the Helles Memorial, Gallipoli, Turkey.
Also named on the Ardvreck School Memorial and on the Edinburgh University Roll of the Fallen, and, together with his brother William, on the Dalbeattie War Memorial.
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Ken