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PostPosted: Tue Oct 28, 2014 2:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

1939 - 1945

SERGT. (NAVIGATOR) DAVID R. HYSLOP, ROYAL AIR FORCE.
David Rae Hyslop, Sergeant/Navigator/Bomber (1568361) 37 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. Age 22.
David was educated at the Douglas Ewart High School in Newton Stewart.
Born 1923 in Kirkcowan, Wigtownshire. Son of Robert and Elizabeth (Rae) Hyslop of Garlieston.
Killed in action on 10 April 1945 and buried in Bari War Cemetery, Italy.
From late 1940 37 Squadron, flying Wellington bombers, was in the Western Desert, supporting the Eighth Army against Rommel and the Afrika Korps. In 1943 the squadron took part in the Allied advance, moving to Libya in February and to Tunisia in May. Finally in December 1943 the squadron moved to Italy, staying at Tortorella from 29 December 1943 until 2 October 1945.


SERGT. (AIR GUNNER) WM. McC. LATIMER, ROYAL AIR FORCE.
William McCreadie Latimer, Sergeant (1570743) 199 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. Age 19.
Born 1925 in Garlieston, Sorbie. Son of George McKeand Latimer and of Mary Helen (McCreadie) Latimer of Garlieston.
Missing in action on 17 June 1944 and named on the Runnymede Memorial, Surrey.
William's Short Stirling bomber (equipped with an airborne radar jamming system) took off from RAF North Creake in Norfolk to provide a “Mandrel Screen” to cover the main bomber raid on the synthetic oil plant at Sterkrade. The aircraft was lost without trace.


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SERGt. JOHN H. MALET-WARDEN, PILOT RAF. (see earlier post)
John Hamish Malet-Warden, Sergeant/Pilot (989146) 78 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. Age 19.
John Hamish had come to Wigtownshire in the 1930's with his mother and other siblings after the breakdown of his parents' marriage. They lived in a house on the Galloway House Estate in Garlieston - at that time owned by Lady Forteviot, a former school friend of John Hamish's mother.
John Hamish attended the Douglas Ewart High School and was a member of the local Air Cadets.
Born 1921 in Edinburgh. Son of Captain Edward Cecil Malet-Warden, Royal Navy, and of Agnes Helen (Pennicuick) Malet-Warden.
Killed in action on 17 August 1941 and buried in Jonkerbos War Cemetery, Netherlands. Also named on the Challoch All Saints Episcopal Church Memorial and on the Douglas Ewart High School Memorial in Newton Stewart.
John Hamish's Whitley bomber had taken off from RAF Middleton St. George near Darlington (now Teesside International Airport) The aircraft crashed at Buggenum (Limburg) near Roermond in the Netherlands and the crew are buried together in Jonkerbos.


STOKER ALEX NICHOLSON, ROYAL NAVY.
Alexander Nicholson, Stoker 2nd Class (D/KX 123645) HMS Bramble, Royal Navy. Age 20.
Born 1922 in Sorbie. Son of Jean Nicholson of Whithorn, Wigtownshire.
Killed in action/Lost at sea on 31 December 1942 and named on the Plymouth Naval Memorial, Devon.
The “Bramble” was designed as a Halcyon-class minesweeper but in 1941 she was refitted to carry out convoy escort duties in the Western Approaches. In October 1941 she sailed with other Halcyons for Archangel, taking part in eleven convoys and carrying out many other duties while in Russian waters. On 31st December 1942 while returning from a search for stragglers of Convoy JW51B she met the German battleship Hipper and was badly damaged, later being sunk by the German destroyer Eckholdt. Eight officers and 113 ratings were lost.


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PostPosted: Tue Oct 28, 2014 2:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

PRIVATE DOUGLAS WILLIAMS, K.O.S. BORDERERS.
SERVED AS DOUGLAS BOYS.
Douglas Boys, Private (3193639) 5th Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers. Age 22.
Douglas died while a prisoner of war in the Military Hospital at Hindenburgh (now Zabrze) in Poland. He was buried at Mikulczyce, Zabrze but was re-interred in Krakow in August 1948.
Born 1919 in Sorbie - as Douglas Boys. Son of Mrs. Jane Boys of Church Street, Garlieston, Sorbie.
Died as a Prisoner of War on 16 February 1941 and buried in Krakow Rakowicki Cemetery, Poland.
On 13 June 1940 the 4th and 5th (Territorial) Battalions of the KOSB landed at St. Malo in France with the 52nd (Lowland) Division, forming part of a second BEF. The original intention to establish a bridgehead with the French Army was frustrated by the fall of France, and on the 18th June most of the 2nd BEF was evacuated from Cherbourg.


KOREAN WAR 1950 - 1953.

CPL. J.R. CRON, 1st K.O.S. BORDERERS.
James Ritchie Cron, Corporal (14475537) 1st Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers. Age 29.
Born 1922 in Port William, Mochrum, Wigtownshire. Son of James and Marion (Ritchie) Cron. Husband of Edith Selena (McCracken) Cron who he married in 1946 in Whithorn, Wigtownshire.
Killed in action on 3 October 1951 and buried in the United Nations Memorial Cemetery, Pusan, Korea.
During the First Battle of Maryang San (3−8 October 1951), the 1st KOSB and other British and Australian troops of the 1st Commonwealth Division dislodged a numerically superior Chinese force from the tactically important Kowang-San - Hill 355.



Ken - with many thanks to Mike Morley for lots of help with research.


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PostPosted: Sun Feb 22, 2015 2:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I have only just noticed that in renewing the panels two KOSB men appear to have been missed off.
L/CPL. THOMAS ORR and PTE. SAM SCOTT

I will make some enquires.
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 22, 2015 7:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Would be interested in what you find out. Thomas Orr also included on the Memorial in Penninghame Church.
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 23, 2015 10:40 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

L/CPL. THOMAS ORR
Photos and text from "sidney"



The second picture shows Bessie Orr and the three children that Thomas left behind : L-R Betty, Gordon, Wilson. (An inscription on the reverse reads: With best love to Daddy from the Crowd – It is presumed that this was a postcard sent out to Thomas in France)

The 1911 census records Thomas and Bessie as living at Glenmalloch Lodge on the Galloway estate in Wigtownshire where Thomas was employed as a gardener (His son, Wilson was later to become head gardener to the estate). Thomas and Bessie had three children.

I have a copy of an extract from a church magazine (St Columba’s church), containing a memorial notice for Thomas Orr and which has been kept in our family. It reads:
“ Pte Thomas Orr. – We hear with much regret that Mr Thomas Orr, of the Cameron Highlanders, was killed in France on October 25th. Mr Orr had not long been connected with St Columba’s when he had to return to Scotland; but his and his wife’s names continued to be on our Communion Roll; and we unite in expressing our deepest sympathy in this great loss to herself and their three little children. Mr Orr’s captain writes that his death was due to shell shock. He was one of a party engaged in trench work when a shell exploded , and he was killed instantly.”
The notice confusingly refers to Private Thomas Orr of the Cameron highlanders and his date of death as Oct 25th but given that this notice was presumably sent on to Bessie from the church and given the reference to the wife and three children returning to Scotland, I’m presuming it does refer to Thomas.

From research notes above:

L.Cpl. THOMAS ORR, K.O. SCOTTISH BORDERERS.
Thomas Orr, Lance Corporal (27392) 7th/8th Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers. Age 29.
Born 1887 in Sorbie. Son of James and Elizabeth (McQueen) Orr of South Street, Garlieston. Husband of Bessie (Wilson) Orr of Penkiln Terrace, Minnigaff who he married in 1910 in Newton Stewart, Penninghame, Wigtownshire. Thomas was Head Gardener on an Oxfordshire estate having previously been with the Earl of Galloway at Cumloden, Minnigaff, Kirkcudbrightshire.
Missing in action 27 October 1916 and named on the Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France.
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 23, 2015 4:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Kenneth Morrison wrote:
The notice confusingly refers to Private Thomas Orr of the Cameron highlanders and his date of death as Oct 25th but given that this notice was presumably sent on to Bessie from the church and given the reference to the wife and three children returning to Scotland, I’m presuming it does refer to Thomas.

L.Cpl. THOMAS ORR, K.O. SCOTTISH BORDERERS.
Thomas Orr, Lance Corporal (27392) 7th/8th Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers. Age 29.Missing in action 27 October 1916 and named on the Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France.


Confusingly the soldier in the photograph does look like he is wearing a glengarry of the Cameron Highlanders rather than KOSB and there is no mention of him having previously served in the Cameron Highlanders in the SNWM entry for Thomas Orr. There is nothing other than KOSB on his medal index card either.

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PostPosted: Tue Mar 24, 2015 5:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Kenneth Morrison wrote:
I have only just noticed that in renewing the panels two KOSB men appear to have been missed off.
L/CPL. THOMAS ORR and PTE. SAM SCOTT

I will make some enquires.


Thanks to Mike Morley and Councillor Jim McColm, the Council are going to rectify these omissions.
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PostPosted: Wed May 20, 2015 8:47 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Kenneth Morrison wrote:
I have only just noticed that in renewing the panels two KOSB men appear to have been missed off.
L/CPL. THOMAS ORR and PTE. SAM SCOTT

I will make some enquires.


The two missing names have now been added to the panel.
It's a pity that the lettering is slightly different but ......


A big thank you to Lynn Morley for the photos.

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PostPosted: Thu May 21, 2015 7:22 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks to Lynn for the Pictures.
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