The Scottish Military Research Group - Commemorations Project

Mike Morley · Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2016 7:24 pm Post subject:

Name: ROBINSON, JOSEPH
Initails: J
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Service Number: 11976
Regiment/Service: Scots Guards, 1st Bn
Date of Death: 27/9/1915
Age: 23
Additional Information: Brother of Charles Robinson, of 37, Lochryan St., Stranraer, Wigtownshire.
Panel Reference: Panel 8 and 9
Memorial: Loos Memorial

Wigtownshire Free Press (5/10/1916):

Also named on Stranraer Parish Church War Memorial

Mike Morley · Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2016 7:40 pm Post subject:

Name: NISH, ROBERT
Initials: R
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Royal Scots Fusiliers, 6th/7th Bn
Age: 21
Date of Death: 23rd August 1917
Service Number: 14090
Additional information: Son of John and Sarah Nish, of Hanover Square, Stranraer, Wigtownshire.
Grave Reference: XVIII. B. 11
Cemetery: Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery

Wigtownshire Free Press (13 September 1917) carried a photograph of Private Nish and reported: Mrs Nish, Hanover Square, has received official intimation that her youngest son, Priate Robert Nish, RSF, died of wounds received in action on August 25th. Private Nish enlisted when the war broke out, and was drafted to Salonica, where he contracted dysentry, and was invalided home. After recovering, he was sent to France. Prior to enlisting he was employed as a grocer with Mr H McDowall, Stranraer.

Also named on Stranraer Parish Church War Memorial and on the family gravestone in Sheuchan Cemetery

Mike Morley · Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2016 7:44 pm Post subject:

Name: ORMISTON, URI
Initials: UJB
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders, 1st/8th Bn
Date of Death: 23rd November 1917
Service Number: 302957
Panel Reference: Addenda Panel
Memorial: Cambrai Memorial, Louverval

Name: ORMISTON, ROBERT WILLIAM
Initials: RW
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Second Lieutenant
Regiment/Service: King’s Shropshire Light Infantry, 6th Bn
Age: 22
Date of Death: 25th March 1918
Additional information: Son of Mr. J. B. Ormiston, of Waverley House, Stranraer, Wigtownshire.
Grave Reference: Sp. Mem. B. 5
Cemetery: Roye New British Cemetery

Also named on Stranraer Parish Church War Memorial and on the family gravestone in Sheuchan Cemetery.

Mike Morley · Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2016 7:47 pm Post subject:

Name: PATERSON, WILLIAM
Initials: W
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Royal Scots, 12th Bn
Date of Death: 23 March 1918
Service Number: 270334
Panel Reference: Panel 13 and 14
Memorial: Pozieres Memorial

Also named on Stranraer Parish Church War Memorial and on the family gravestone in Sheuchan Cemetery.

Mike Morley · Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2016 7:57 pm Post subject:

Name: WALLACE, TOM
Initils: T
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Royal Scots Fusiliers, 5th Bn
Age: 24
Date of Death: 1st January 1916
Service Number: 7398
Additional Information: Son of Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Wallace, of 36, High St., Stranraer, Wigtownshire.
Grave Reference: J. 89
Cemetery: Lancashire Landing Cemetery

Also named on Sheuchan Church War Memorial and on the family gravestone in Sheuchan Cemetery.

Mike Morley · Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2016 8:07 pm Post subject:

Note: The following servicemen are identified from the details posted by Spoons in his research into Stranraer's Glebe Cemetery.

Name: AULD, ROBERT
Initials: R
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Sapper
Regiment/Service: Royal Engineers
Unit Text: Training Centre (Newark)
Age: 33
Date of Death: 24/01/1918
Service No: 177744
Additional information: Son of Robert Auld; husband of Mrs. Auld.
Grave/Memorial Reference: P. 3. 49.
Cemetery: STRANRAER (GLEBE) CEMETERY

Also named on Sheuchan Church War Memorial.

Mike Morley · Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2016 8:11 pm Post subject:

Name: CAMPBELL, WILLIAM
Initials: W
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Lance Serjeant
Regiment/Service: Royal Artillery
Unit Text: 104 Bty., 18 Lt. A.A. Regt.
Age: 45
Date of Death: 18/01/1940
Service No: 1486587
Additional information: Husband of Sarah Caldwell Campbell, of Stranraer.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Sec. G. Class 1. Grave 101.
Cemetery: STRANRAER (GLEBE) CEMETERY

Mike Morley · Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2016 8:13 pm Post subject:

Name: CASEY, ROBERT SMITH
Initials: R S
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: King's Own Scottish Borderers
Unit Text: 5th Bn.
Age: 20
Date of Death: 21/04/1941
Service No: 3188902
Additional information: Son of David McDowall Casey and Jeannie McCaig Casey, of Stranraer.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Sec. V. Class 4. Grave 45.
Cemetery: STRANRAER (GLEBE) CEMETERY

The death of Robert Smith Casey was reported on in the 24/4/1941 edition of the Wigtownshire Free Press. "Mr and Mrs David Casey, 11 St John Street, Stranraer, have received news of the death, as the result of an accident of their eldest son, Private RS Casey. Before the war, Casey was employed with the Co-operative Society at Sheuchan Parks. He had been on service since the outbreak of hostilities. He is to be buried at Stranraer on Friday.

Mike Morley · Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2016 8:15 pm Post subject:

Name: DOUGAN, JAMES
Initials: J
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Serjeant
Regiment/Service: Seaforth Highlanders
Unit Text: 6th Bn.
Age: 31
Date of Death: 06/06/1940
Service No: 2817580
Additional information: Son of William and Elizabeth Dougan, of Stranraer; husband of Jessie Dougan, of Stranraer.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Sec. J. Class 2. Grave 39.
Cemetery: STRANRAER (GLEBE) CEMETERY

Mike Morley · Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2016 8:23 pm Post subject:

Name: MARSHALL, ROBERT BATES ALEXANDER
Initials: R B A
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Aircraftman 1st Class
Regiment/Service: Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Age: 19
Date of Death: 31/05/1944
Service No: 1821279
Additional information: Son of Robert Marshall, and of Mary Marshall, of Stranraer.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Sec. I. Class 2. Grave 9.
Cemetery: STRANRAER (GLEBE) CEMETERY

Mike Morley · Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2016 8:27 pm Post subject:

Name: McCAMON, WILLIAM
Initials: W
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: King's Own Scottish Borderers
Unit Text: 5th Bn.
Age: 26
Date of Death: 24/06/1944
Service No: 3189495
Additional information: Son of William and Elizabeth McCamon; husband of Martha Taylor McCamon, of Stranraer.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Sec. R. Class 2. Grave 18.
Cemetery: STRANRAER (GLEBE) CEMETERY

Mike Morley · Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2016 8:28 pm Post subject:

Name: MILLER, JOHN BOYD
Initials: J B
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Driver
Regiment/Service: Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers
Age: 26
Date of Death: 11/12/1946
Service No: 3190352
Additional information: Son of David and Agnes Miller, of Stranraer; husband of Doris May Miller, of Romford, Essex.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Sec. G. Class 1. Grave 9.
Cemetery: STRANRAER (GLEBE) CEMETERY

Mike Morley · Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2016 8:31 pm Post subject:

Name: THOMPSON, JAMES MCMORLAND
Initials: J M
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Driver
Regiment/Service: Royal Army Service Corps
Unit Text: 253 (Airborne) Comp. Coy.
Age: 18
Date of Death: 25/05/1945
Service No: T/14496757
Additional information: Son of Andrew and Margaret Thompson, of Stranraer.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Sec. U. Class 4. Grave 9.
Cemetery: STRANRAER (GLEBE) CEMETERY

Mike Morley · Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2016 8:33 pm Post subject:

Name: WILSON, THOMAS
Initials: T
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Greaser
Regiment/Service: Merchant Navy
Unit Text: S.S. Princess Maud (Stranraer)
Age: 42
Date of Death: 31/05/1940
Additional information: Son of Thomas and Agnes Wilson, of Stranraer; husband of Catherine Smith Wilson, of Stranraer.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Sec. D. Class 1. Grave 62.
Cemetery: STRANRAER (GLEBE) CEMETERY

In the 31/8/2017 edition of the Wigtownshire Free Press there is an article on the SS Princess Maud (a passenger steamer normally on the Stranraer-Larne route) and her exploits at Dunkirk and subsequently. It mentions the death of thomas Wilson: "Two miles from the shore a shell burst through the engine room, just six inches above the water; then another hit. With blankets and a mattress stuffed in the hole, they "very reluctantly" turned back to Dover, but the shrapnell had mortally wounded Greaser Thomas Wilson, who came from Stranraer's Murrayfield Avenue. [Captain] Iles recalls how the pantry boy Haveron, held the dying man's hand and tried to cheer him. Wilson and three others died shortly after the ship reached Dover."

Mike Morley · Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2016 8:36 pm Post subject:

Name: COOK, MATTHEW
Initials: M
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Lance Corporal
Regiment/Service: Royal Scots Fusiliers
Unit Text: 1st/5th Bn.
Date of Death: 12/07/1915
Service No: 7862
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 72 to 75.
Memorial: HELLES MEMORIAL

and his son

Name: COOK, LEONARD
Initials: L
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Rifleman
Regiment/Service: Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)
Unit Text: 1st Bn.
Age: 23
Date of Death: 25/05/1944
Service No: 3189174
Additional information: Son of Matthew and Catherine Cook.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Face 10.
Memorial: RANGOON MEMORIAL

Both men are named on the family gravestone in Stranraer's Glebe Cemetery.