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morag sutherland
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 Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2016 8:18 pm Post subject: Donald Kinnear |
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| spoons wrote: | Sgt Kinnear's entry for the Gulf war is of particular interest to me because I am in the early stages of trying to identify all war graves and memorial entries for RAPC and it's antecedent corps.
I will have to do some research but Sgt Kinnear will be one of the last (if not THE last) RAPC to die in service because the RAPC ceased to exist on 1st April 1992 on formation of the Adjutant General's Corps. |
I am quite happy to update the information on Donald Kinnear - Adam?? |
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Adam Brown
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Thanks to Morag Sutherland who has sent this information about Sergeant Donald Kinnear after she spoke to Sgt Kinnear's mother Mrs Olive Kinnear.
Many thanks to both of them for the information
DONALD BRUCE KINNEAR
Rank: Sergeant
Regimental Number: 24630266
Unit: Royal Army Pay Corps
Died: 27th January 1991
Buried: Bent Cemetery, Hamilton, Scotland
Age: 24
Parents: Bruce and Olive Kinnear, nee Greenan
Born: Edinburgh
Home: West Calder, West Lothian Scotland from where he joined the Army in 1982
Spouse: Jacqueline Anne McGourty married in Hamilton, her maternal home.
Family: daughter Christina Margaret, born Germany
Listed on the following memorials:
Clyne War Memorial, Brora
Scottish National War Memorial, Edinburgh
St Paul’s Cathedral, London
St Mungo’s Cathedral, Glasgow
Winchester Cathedral
St Paul’s Church, Ahmadi, Kuwait
Hollywood Memorial Garden, Hollywood Barracks Northern Ireland
Highland Council Head Office, Inverness
National War Memorial Arboretum, Lichfield
A new memorial to the Gulf War was unveiled on Sunday 28th February 2016 to mark 25 years of the end of this conflict. Sergeant Kinnear's mother Olive Kinnear attended. |
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stuartn
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