The Scottish Military Research Group - Commemorations Project

Mike Morley · Posted: Mon May 04, 2020 3:36 pm Post subject:

Name: WARDROP, ROBERT
Initials: R
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Sergeant (Air Gunner)
Service Number: 1366325
Regiment/Service: Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, 9 Sqdn
Date of Death: 8/1/1943
Grave Reference: Grave 9
Cemetery: Vorden General Cemetery.

Mike Morley · Posted: Thu May 07, 2020 12:27 pm Post subject:

Name: WATSON, WILLIAM
Initials: W
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Lance Corporal
Service Number: T/192611
Regiment/Service: Royal Army Service Corps
Date of Death: 9/12/1942
Additional Information: Son of James and Isabella Brownlie Watson; husband of Margaret Watson, of Hamilton, Lanarkshire.
Grave Reference: 4 G 1
Cemetery: Knightsbridge War Cemetery, Acroma.

Also named on Avon Street Church (Hamilton) Memorial and Hamilton West Parish Church Memorial.

Mike Morley · Posted: Thu May 07, 2020 12:34 pm Post subject:

Name: WATT, WILLIAM
Intials: W
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Warrant Officer Class II (C.S.M.)
Service Number: 3246740
Regiment/Service: The Glider Pilot Regiment, A.A.C., 1st Wing
Date of Death: 5/12/1944
Age: 25
Additional Information: Son of William Watt and of Annie Watt (nee Scoular), of Hamilton, Lanarkshire; husband of Elizabeth Black Blair Watt, of Burnbank, Hamilton.
Grave Reference: Plot 3. Row E. Grave 51
Cemetery: Mazargues War Cemetery, Marseilles.

Also named on St John's Parish Church (Hamilton) Memorial.

Mike Morley · Posted: Thu May 07, 2020 12:37 pm Post subject:

Name: WELCH, FREDERICK WILLIAM JAMES
Initials: FWJ
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Lieutenant
Service Number: 251453
Regiment/Service: Cameronians (Scottish Rifles), 9th Bn
Date of Death: 1/7/1944
Panel Reference: Panel 14, Column 3
Memorial: Bayeux Memorial.

Mike Morley · Posted: Thu May 07, 2020 12:39 pm Post subject:

Name: WHEATLEY, DANIEL MANN
Initials: DM
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Lance Serjeant
Service Number: 1983851
Regiment/Service: Royal Engineers, 275 Field Coy
Awards: MM
Date of Death: 18/8/1944
Age: 35
Additional Information: Son of Samuel and Isabella Gilbert Wheatley; husband of Isabella Lindsay Wheatley, of Hamilton, Lanarkshire.
Grave Reference: IX E 33
Cemetery: Ranville War Cemetery.

Mike Morley · Posted: Thu May 07, 2020 12:43 pm Post subject:

Name: WHITE, WILLIAM MELVIN
Initials: WM
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Lieutenant
Service Number: 288332
Regiment/Service: Seaforth Highlanders, 6th Bn
Date of Death: 19/3/1944
Age: 22
Additional Information: Son of Robert Thomson White and Adeline Melvin White, of Hamilton, Lanarkshire.
Grave Reference: XIX B 7
Cemetery: Beach Head War Cemetery, Anzio.

Also named on Hamilton Grammar School Memorial.

Mike Morley · Posted: Thu May 07, 2020 12:46 pm Post subject:

Name: WILLIAMS, GEORGE
Initials: G
Nationalit: United Kingdom
Rank: Rifleman
Service Number: 3246979
Regiment/Service: Cameronians (Scottish Rifles), 1st Bn
Date of Death: 25/5/1944
Age: 26
Panel Reference: Face 10
Memorial: Rangoon Memorial.

Mike Morley · Posted: Thu May 07, 2020 12:48 pm Post subject:

Name: WILSON, ALEXANDER
Initials: A
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Warrant Officer Class II (Assistant Q.M.S.)
Service Number: 7592780
Regiment/Service: Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers
Date of Death: 18/6/1947
Age: 38
Additional Information: Son of Alexander and Sarah Wilson; husband of Bridget Wilson, of Burnbank, Hamilton.
Grave Reference: Sec. F. Grave 495
Cemetery: Hamilton West Cemetery.

Mike Morley · Posted: Thu May 07, 2020 12:51 pm Post subject:

Name: WILSON, JOHN
Initials: J
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Service Number: 3314316
Regiment/Service: Highland Light Infantry (City of Glasgow Regiment), 1st Bn
Date of Death: Between 29/05/1940 and 05/01/1941
Age: 21
Grave Reference: Grave 1
Cemetery: Oost-Cappel Churchyard.

Mike Morley · Posted: Thu May 07, 2020 12:54 pm Post subject:

Name: WILSON, WILLIAM MARSHALL
Initials: WM
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Sergeant
Service Number: 1560313
Regiment/Service: Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, 7 Sqdn
Date of Death: 6/1/1944
Age: 20
Additional Information: Son of John and Annie Wilson, of Burnbank, Lanarkshire.
Panel Reference: Panel 240
Memorial: Runnymede Memorial.

Mike Morley · Posted: Thu May 07, 2020 4:27 pm Post subject:

Robert Porteous Wylie is likely to be:

Name: WYLLIE, ROBERT
Initials: R
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Lance Corporal
Service Number: 18798
Regiment/Service: Highland Light Infantry, 12th Bn
Date of Death: 8/11/1915
Panel Reference: Panel 108 to 112
Memorial: Loos Memorial.

Soldiers Who Died in the Great War states that he was resident at Burnbank, Hamilton and enlisted at Hamilton.

Mike Morley · Posted: Thu May 07, 2020 7:13 pm Post subject:

Name: FORREST, JAMES
Initials: J
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Service Number: 10314
Regiment/Service: Seaforth Highlanders, 2nd Bn
Date of Death: 20/10/1914
Age: 28
Additional Information: Son of Thomas Baillie Forrest; husband of Elizabeth Forrest, of 98, Cambridge St., Glasgow.
Panel Reference: Panel 9
Memorial: Ploegsteert Memorial.

Mike Morley · Posted: Thu May 07, 2020 7:18 pm Post subject:

Name: FORREST, N
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Service Number: 34211
Regiment/Service: Cameronians (Scottish Rifles), 5th/6th Bn
Date of Death: 22/9/1918
Grave Reference: II B 23
Cemetery: Villers Hill British Cemetery, Villers-Guislain.

Mike Morley · Posted: Thu May 07, 2020 7:24 pm Post subject:

Name: BROWN, J
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Driver
Service Number: 217720
Regiment/Service: Royal Field Artillery, 5th Bde, 73rd Bty
Date of Death: 21/9/1918
Grave Reference: III F 11
Cemetery: La Chapelette British and Indian Cemetery, Peronne.

Mike Morley · Posted: Fri May 08, 2020 11:18 am Post subject:

Name: BROWN, THOMAS
Initials: T
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Lance Sergeant
Service Number: PO/811(S)
Regiment/Service: Royal Marine Light Infantry, 2nd R.M. Bn. R.N. Div.
Date of Death: 15/5/1917
Grave Reference: V D 16
Cemetery: Tournai Communal Cemetery Allied Extension.