The Scottish Military Research Group - Commemorations Project

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UKNIWM Ref: 44321

Location in Kirkbean Parish Church at OS Map Ref: NX 980 591

This is a memorial to a military family and the entry for Capt Blackett counts as a war memorial. The memorial consists of the plaque and a church organ, UKNIWM reports that the organ was absent in 1998. Certainly there is a fairly new and modest organ in place now (May 2007). If anyone has a photo of the original organ, could they post it please?

Surprisingly Capt Blackett does not seem to be listed on SNWM.

Name: BLACKETT, WILLIAM STEWART BURDETT
Initials: W S B
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Captain
Regiment/Service: Leicestershire Yeomanry
Age: 41
Date of Death: 24/11/1914
Additional information: Son of Capt. Blackett (R.N.); husband of Mrs. Blackett Swiny, of Arbigland, Dumfries. Served in the South African Campaign with Grenadier Guards.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: I. B. 1.
Cemetery: POPERINGE COMMUNAL CEMETERY