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PostPosted: Sun Jan 17, 2010 12:33 pm    Post subject: Laing Alexander Reply with quote

Laing Alexander L/cpl 5 Bailey's Sharpshooters (South Africa) b Wallfield 15/06/1885 e Salisbury Age 32 Killed in Action F & F 16-Aug-16 Son of William & Elizabeth Cook Laing, Wallfield, Urquhart. Morayshire Roll of Honour: Page 201 : Occ Bank Accountant. Thiepval Memorial M. R. 21 Addenda Panel
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 17, 2010 12:39 pm    Post subject: McEwen S Reply with quote

Name: McEWEN
Initials: S J
Nationality: South African
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: South African Infantry
Unit Text: 4th Regt.
Date of Death: 24/10/1918
Service No: 20776
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: L. 2049.
Cemetery: CATHCART CEMETERY
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 06, 2013 4:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

ASHCROFT, WILLIAM GILMOUR
Rank: Major
Service No: 93607
Date of Death: 28/06/1944
Age: 38
Regiment/Service: Seaforth Highlanders
7th Bn.
Grave ReferenceVI. D. 9.
Cemetery ST. MANVIEU WAR CEMETERY, CHEUX
Additional Information:
Son of Thomas and Janet Reid Ashcroft; husband of Margaret Spalding Ashcroft, of Elchies, Morayshire. B.Sc. (Glasgow).

A report in the Galloway News on 15 July 1944 reads:
"Major W G Ashcroft, Seaforth Highlanders, head master of Urquhart Public School, has been killed in Normandy. A native of Newton Stewart and a graduate of Glasgow University, he was appointed to Urquhart in 1932, after one year as head master at Clackmarras, Morayshire. He was called up as a Territorial, and leaves a wife and two sons."

Interestingly the Glasgow University RoH has:
"Major William Gilmour Ashcroft was born in Mearns, Renfrewshire in 1904. He graduated Bachelor of Science from the University in 1929."
(scotlandspeople has 1905 - Renfrewshire, but not Mearns)

I don't see him on any Galloway Memorials.
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 06, 2013 5:02 pm    Post subject: WILLIAM GILMOUR ASHCROFT Libindx has info... Reply with quote

Occupation : SCHOOL TEACHER & MAJOR IN 7TH SEAFORTH HIGHLANDERS
Date of Birth : c. 1905
Place of Birth : NEWTON MEARNS
Spouse's Name : MARGARET ANDERSON SCHOOLHOUSE URQUHART
Headstone Ref : U205
Date of Death : JUN 1944
Place of Death : NORMANDY FRANCE
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PostPosted: Sat Nov 02, 2013 11:15 am    Post subject: Urquhart Reply with quote

I have recently found information suggesting that this memorial is to a design commissioned from Sir Robert Lorimer. The Tennant family were regular clients and the memorial bears a strong Lorimer look.
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 17, 2022 4:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Two brothers named here - one in each war.

MARK and JOHN E. TENNANT - INNES HOUSE

The first is also named on the North Berwick War Memorial in East Lothian as:

M. TENNANT, 2ND LT
Mark Tennant – age 24 – Captain, Scots Guards.
Mark was educated at Eton and was commissioned in the Seaforth Highlanders in September 1914. He was promoted to Lieutenant and landed with the 1/4th Seaforths at Le Havre in November 1914. He transferred to the Scots Guards in November 1915.
Born 1892 in North Berwick. Son of Francis John Tennant and of Annie Geraldine (Redmayne) Tennant of Hyndeford House, Fidra Terrace, North Berwick and of Innes House, Urquhart, Elgin, Morayshire.
Killed in Action on 16 September 1916 and buried in Guards' Cemetery, Lesboeufs, France.
Also named on the St. Andrews Blackadder Church memorial in North Berwick.

His brother:

John Edward Tennant, Distinguished Service Order, Military Cross – age 51 – Group Captain, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.
John was onboard an Anson of 20 Operational Training Unit from RAF Lossiemouth when the aircraft crashed on high ground about 6 miles southwest of Tomintoul, believed to be following failure of one engine.
Born 1890 in North Berwick. Husband of Veronica (Duff) Tennant of Urquhart who he married in 1926 in London..
Died on Active service on 7 August 1941 and buried in Innes House Private Burial Ground.(CWG)

MC citation LG 28/3/1916 Captain John Edward Tennant, Scots Guards and Royal Flying Corps.
For conspicuous gallantry and skill. During the night he bombed the sheds of an enemy aerodrome, descending to 30 feet to do so. He shut off his engine in order to avoid giving warning, although there was risk of not being able to start it again. His machine was much damaged by the explosion
of his own bombs at so low a height. On his return he requested permission to take another machine and repeat the operation.

Legion d'Houneur; Croix de Chevalier LG 31/8/1917 Brevet Major (temporary Lieu tenant-Colonel) John Edward Tennant, M.C., Scots Guards and Royal Flying Corps.

LG 2/8/1918
Awarded the Distinguished Service Order for gallantry and distinguished service in operations in Mesopotamia: Maj. & T./Lt.-Col. John Edward Tennant, M.C. (formerly Bt. Maj., Scots Guards).
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 18, 2022 8:20 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Wasn't there something about Tenant on last Sunday's Antiques Roadshow? One of his descendants appeared with the prop of a WW1 plane and of the plane that he died on.
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