The Scottish Military Research Group - Commemorations Project

anne park · Posted: Sun May 08, 2016 7:59 am Post subject: John Adamson

John Adamson Private 310057 1st/7th Bn. Gordon Highlanders b Kinross e Cowdenbeath Killed in Action Pas de Calais, France 23/04/1917 Soldiers Effects: Mother: Ann. Soldiers Will 4 pages. Brown's Copse Cemetery, Roeux Fr 0604 Plot II Row G Grave 36 Fife Free Press, & Kirkcaldy Guardian 02-06-17 P1: Kelty The Scotsman 30-05-17 P8: Kelty
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anne park · Posted: Sat Jun 04, 2016 2:31 pm Post subject: Robert Wilson Black GH

Robert Wilson Black Pte S/41572 1st Gordon Highlanders Loanhead, M'lothian Perth Killed in Action F&F 08/05/1918 Father Robert. Soldiers Effects. Soldiers Will 4 pages. Sandpits British Cemetery, Fouquereuil Fr 0033 Plot I Row F Grave 12 The Scotsman 24-06-18 P7: Kelty
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Kenneth Morrison · Posted: Sat Jun 04, 2016 6:46 pm Post subject:

From the AIF Project https://www.aif.adfa.edu.au/showPerson?pid=305671
Thomas Terris TURBAYNE
Regimental number 482
Religion Presbyterian
Occupation Hardware man
Address Poowong, Victoria
Marital status Single
Age at embarkation 35
Next of kin Nellie Turbayne, Main Street, Kelty, Fifeshire, Scotland
Enlistment date 27 August 1914
Date of enlistment from Nominal Roll 28 August 1914
Rank on enlistment Private
Unit name 8th Battalion, D Company
AWM Embarkation Roll number 23/25/1
Embarkation details Unit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria, on board Transport A24 Benalla on 19 October 1914
Rank from Nominal Roll Lance Corporal
Unit from Nominal Roll 8th Battalion
Fate Killed in Action 8 May 1917
Place of burial No known grave
Commemoration details Australian National Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, France
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Ken

anne park · Posted: Sun Jun 12, 2016 6:05 am Post subject: John Whyte GH

John Whyte Private S/41593 1st Bn. Gordon Highlanders b Leslie, Fife. e Cowdenbeath Age 27 Killed in Action Pas de Calais, France 15/11/1917 Soldiers Effects: Mo : Mary Rintoul. Formerly 30433 Cameron Highlanders. Ecoust Military Cemetery, Ecoust-St Mein Fr 0690 Plot I Row B Grave 19 The Scotsman 14-12-17 P8: Kelty
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anne park · Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2016 3:20 am Post subject: Alexander F Mills GH

Alexander F Mills Lance Corporal S/21381 1st Bn. Gordon Highlanders b Beath e Perth Age 19 Died of Wounds Pas de Calais, France 30/05/1918 Son of Orr and Janet F. Mill, of 3, Clarion Cottages, Lower Oakfield, Fife. Native of Crossgates, Fife. Soldiers Will 3 Pages. Etaples Military Cemetery Fr 0040 Plot LXVI Row E Grave 34 The Scotsman 01-07-18 P3: Kelty
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anne park · Posted: Mon May 08, 2017 5:11 pm Post subject: Robert Black GH

Robert Wilson Black Pte S/41572 1st Gordon Highlanders b Loanhead, M'lothian e Perth Age 20 Killed in Action F&F 08/05/1918 Father Robert. Soldiers Effects. Service Returns: 117/AF 71. Soldiers Will 4 pages. Sandpits British Cemetery, Fouquereuil Fr 0033 Plot I Row F Grave 12 The Scotsman 24-06-18 P7: Kelty
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Mike Morley · Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2021 2:15 pm Post subject:

Name: SALMOND, CHARLES
Initials: C
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Service Number: 7882
Regiment/Service: Seaforth Highlanders, 2nd Bn
Date of Death: 26/10/1914
Age: 30
Additional Information: Son of John and Katherine Lethem Salmond.
Panel Reference: Panel 9
Memorial: Ploegsteert Memorial.

And his brother:

Name: SALMOND, WILLIAM
Initials: W
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Corporal
Service Number: 2147
Regiment/Service: Black Watch (Royal Highlanders), 7th Bn
Date of Death: 3/5/1917
Age: 24
Additional Information: Son of the late John and Catherine Salmond of Kilty, Fifeshire.
Panel Reference: Panel 10
Memorial: Brookwood 1914-1918 Memorial.

Note: The In From The Cold Project has been trying to locate the graves of those named on the Brookwood Memorial. I have approached Fife Council in the hope that William Salmond may have been interred in the Kelty area but they have no trace of his burial record.

Kenneth Morrison · Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2022 4:16 pm Post subject:

CHRIS ROBERTSON

Christopher's name was added to a new panel on the Dunbar War Memorial in East Lothian in October 2019 as:

CHRIS ROBERTSON
Christopher Robertson – age 30 – Gunner (47850) 35th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery.
Christopher had come to Kelty some years earlier and was a miner living with his family at Keltyhill Road, when he enlisted in November 1914. He landed with his battery in France in September 1915.
Born 1886 in Dunbar, Haddingtonshire/East Lothian. Son of the late Adam Robertson (died 1894) and of the late Margaret (Gullen) Robertson (died 1897) of Dunbar. Husband of Isabella (Beveridge) Robertson who he married in 1908 in Blantyre, Lanarkshire.
Died of Wounds on 21 May 1916 and buried in Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, Belgium.
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Ken