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Mike Morley
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Location: Roberton, Lanarkshire
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Name: RUSSELL, WILLIAM WEIR
Initials: WW
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Sergeant (Wireless Op./Air Gunner)
Service Number: 1370146
Regiment/Service: Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Date of Death: 31/3/1943
Age: 22
Additional Information: Son of Robert and Helen Russell.
Grave Reference: Sec B, Class II, Grave 17
Cemetery: West Linton Cemetery
Also named on Peebles War Memorial
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Mike Morley
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Location: Roberton, Lanarkshire
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Name: WATT, STUART CAMERON
Initials: SC
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Second Lieutenant
Service Number: 220553
Regiment/Service: Royal Artillery, 100 (8th Bn The Gordon Highlanders) Anti-Tank Regt
Date of Death: 25/3/1942
Age: 20
Additional Information: Son of James and Emily Meikleham Watt, of Edinburgh.
Grave Reference: Sec A, Class I, Grave 23
Cemetery: West Linton Cemetery
Also named on Peebles War Memorial.
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Kenneth Morrison
Joined: 29 Sep 2008
Posts: 7750
Location: Rockcliffe Dalbeattie
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| DerekR wrote: | FRANK BELL
Rank:
Private
Service No:
13843
Date of Death:
03/11/1918
Age:
26
Regiment/Service:
Royal Scots
1st/9th Bn.
Grave Reference:
I. A. 17.
Cemetery:
DON COMMUNAL CEMETERY, ANNOEULLIN
Additional Information:
Son of Robert and Helen Bell, of The Club Rooms, Newcastleton, Roxburghshire. Native of Lazonby Carlisle. |
On the memorial as Pte. Francis Bell R.S.
Named on the Southdean Parish War Memorial in Roxburghshire as:
Cpl. FRANK BELL, R.S.
Frank Bell – age 26 – Private (13843) 1/9th (Highlanders) Battalion, Royal Scots.
Frank was a gamekeeper at Spittalhaugh, near West Linton, Peebleshire when he enlisted in September 1914. He joined the 2nd Royal Scots in December but was severely wounded in the left leg and thigh while in action near Ypres in May 1915 and was treated in the Liverpool Merchants' Mobile Hospital in Paris. Later he served with the 15th Royal Scots (1st Edinburgh Battalion) He was wounded again in April 1918 and evacuated to hospital in Sutton Veny, Wiltshire. After he had returned to France he suffered gas poisoning and died in the 15th Casualty Clearing Station at Don.
Born 1892 in Lazonby, Penrith, Cumberland as Frank. Son of Robert and Helen (Brown) Bell of The Club Rooms, Newcastleton, Roxburghshire.
Died of Wounds on 3 November 1918 and buried in Don Communal Cemetery, Annoeullin, France.
In 1901 Robert Bell, aged 42 and born in Canonbie, Dumfriesshire, was a Police Sergeant in Wigton, Cumberland and in 1911, aged 51, he was the caretaker of the Reading Room at Aspatria, Cumberland. He was a Constable in Penrith when he and his wife Helen (Brown) born in Oxnam, Roxburghshire, had married in 1883 in Bedrule, Roxburghshire, and in 1911 Frank, aged 19, lived with them, working as a Post Messenger. Robert joined the Hawick Burgh Police as a constable for the duration of the war.
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Kenneth Morrison
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| Mike Morley wrote: | Name: CHALMERS, WILLIAM DUNFORD
Initials: WD
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Service Number: 7306
Regiment/Service: King's Own Scottish Borderers, 1st/4th Bn
Date of Death: 12/7/1915
Age: 21
Additional Information: Son of Alexander and Mary Chalmers, of Garvald, Dolphinton, Edinburgh.
Panel Reference: Panel 85 to 93 or 220 to 222
Memorial: Helles Memorial
Also named on Peebles War Memorial. |
Named on the Ladykirk Parish War Memorial in Berwickshire as:
PTE. WILLIAM CHALMERS, K.O.S.B.
William Dunford Chalmers – age 21 – Private (7306) 1/4th (Border) Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers.
William had served his apprenticeship under his father, the head gardener at Haggerston Castle, Beal, Northumberland, and he was the foreman at The Gardens of Ladykirk when he enlisted. He landed with his battalion at Gallipoli in June but he was killed a month later during the battle at Achi Baba Nullah.
Born 1894 in Terregles, Kirkcudbrightshire. Son of Alexander and Mary (Moffat) Chalmers of Garvald House Gardens, West Linton, Peebles.
Missing in Action on 12 July 1915 and named on the Helles Memorial, Gallipoli, Turkey.
The family grave is in Biggar Churchyard in Lanarkshire.
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