The Scottish Military Research Group - Commemorations Project

Kenneth Morrison · Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2022 2:04 pm Post subject:

CHARLES KERSE
Charles Kerse – age 31 – Driver (30155) 1st Division Train Company, Canadian Army Service Corps.
Charles served his apprenticeship with his father in Dunbar and was a tailor when he enlisted at Valcartier Camp in Quebec in September 1914. He sailed from Canada in October and landed in France in February 1915.
Born 1883 in Edinburgh. Son of Gavin Havery Kerse and of Janet Blyth (Fleming) Kerse of 3 Friar Bank, Dunbar and of Huntspool, Earlston, Berwickshire.
Missing in Action on 9 May 1915 and named on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium.

REV. JAMES KIRK
The Rev. James Kirk, Military Cross – age 44 – Chaplain 4th Class, Army Chaplains' Department attached to the 2nd Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders.
James was educated at Dunfermline High School and at the University of St. Andrews from where he graduated M.A. He was a Student of Divinity at Edinburgh University from 1898 to 1901 and became Minister of Forteviot parish in Perthshire. He moved to Dunbar Parish from Old Macher, Aberdeen in April 1913. He was commissioned in April 1915 and went to France. He was awarded the M.C. in June 1917 “for showing at all times conspicuous devotion to duty ad a total disregard to personal safety in carrying out his work,” James was wounded at Fampoux on the Scarpe in March 1918 and died in the 14th General Hospital at Wimereux.
Born 1873 at Kirkford, Beath. Fife. Son of the late James Kirk (died 1905) and of the late Janet (Reekie) Kirk (died 1917) of Kirkford, near Cowdenbeath, Fife. Husband of Elizabeth Mary (Mackay) Kirk of 8 Woodhall Terrace, Juniper Green, Midlothian who he married in 1904 in Edinburgh.
Died of Wounds on 1 April 1918 and buried in Wimereux Communal Cemetery, France.
Also named on the University of St. Andrews Memorial and Roll of Honour, on the Edinburgh University Old College Memorial and Roll of the Fallen, on the Church of Scotland Chaplains memorial in St. Giles Cathedral, Edinburgh and on an individual memorial in Forteviot Parish Church.

Kenneth Morrison · Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2022 2:06 pm Post subject:

JAMES KNOX
James Robertson Knox – age 44 – Sergeant (280330) 22nd Company, Royal Garrison Artillery.
James was a plasterer when he enlisted in December 1914. He had previously served in the 1st Midlothian Volunteer Artillery until March 1908. James was posted to the 22nd Company at Lower Twydall Redoubt, Sheerness. Eastern Coast Defences in June 1915 but at the end of the war he contracted influenza and died of pneumonia in the Sheerness Military Hospital, Sheppey, Kent.
Born 1874 in Dunbar. Son of the late Robert Knox (died 1881) and Margaret Hunter Knox (died 1906) of Dunbar. Husband of Jessie Russell (Miller) Knox of 86 High Street, Dunbar who he married in 1897 in Dunbar.
Died on Service on 25 November 1918 and buried in Dunbar Cemetery. (CWG)

WILLIAM LOUGH
William Lough – age 42 – Private (305395) Royal Army Medical Corps.
William was a labourer living at 32 Victoria Street, Dunbar when he enlisted. He died in the Station Road Auxiliary Hospital in Blackpool, Fylde, Lancashire.
Born 1876 in Eyemouth, Berwickshire. Son of the late Thomas Lough (died 1881) and of Betsy or Elizabeth (Combe) Lough (died 1907) Husband of Janet (Marr) Lough who he married in 1913 in Dunbar.
Died on Service on 24 November 1918 and buried in Dunbar Cemetery. (CWG)

DAVID T. MARR
David Thomson Marr – age 20 – Private (16694) 2nd Battalion, Royal Scots.
David was a labourer in Dunbar when he enlisted in December 1914. He joined his battalion in May 1915 but due to illness he was evacuated to the 1st South General Hospital at Stourbridge in December 1915. He rejoined his battalion in February 1916 but he was killed six months later. David was reported as missing but his remains were recovered from the battlefield and re-interred in July 1919.
Born 1896 in Dunbar. Son of the late Andrew Marr (died 1916) and Elizabeth Collins (Clements) Marr of 4 Lamer Street, Dunbar.
Killed in Action on 18 August 1916 and buried in Flatiron Copse Cemetery, Mametz, France.

and his brother

HUGH MARR
Hugh Marr – age 19 – Private (57952) 2nd Battalion, Highland Light Infantry.
Born 1899 in Dunbar. Son of the late Andrew Marr (died 1916) and Elizabeth Collins (Clements) Marr of 4 Lamer Street, Dunbar.
Missing in Action on 25 August 1918 and named on the Vis-en-Artois Memorial, France.

Kenneth Morrison · Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2022 9:33 am Post subject:

ROBERT MARR
Robert Marr – age 28 – Sergeant (10465) 1st Battalion, Royal Scots Fusiliers.
Robert had been a ploughman at Little Spott Farm when he enlisted and he was a Private when he joined his battalion in France in November 1914.
Born 1889 in Glasgow. Son of the late William Marr (died 1897) and of Rebecca Hamilton (Ross) Marr, and step-son of Thomas Punton of Victoria Street, Dunbar who married Rebecca in 1898 in Dunbar. Husband of Jessie (Duncan) Marr who he married in 1913 in Dunbar.
Missing in Action on 26 September 1917 and named on the Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium.

EDWARD A. MARROW
Edward Armfield Marrow – age 31 – Captain, 1st Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers.
Edward was educated at Harrow School before attending the Royal Military College at Sandhurst. He was commissioned from there in the KOSB in January 1902 and served with the 2nd KOSB in India until 1906. He was promoted to Lieutenant and then to Captain in April 1910, serving at Berwick-on-Tweed until 1912. He then joined the 1st KOSB in India and was appointed Adjutant in May 1914. At the outbreak of war the battalion were at Lucknow and they returned to the UK, via Egypt, in December 1914 but in March 1915 they sailed again, landing at Gallipoli on 25 April when Edward was killed.
Born 1883 in Blantyre, Lanarkshire. Son of the late Major Peter Marrow, King's Dragoon Guards (died 1903) and of Mary (Stewart) Marrow of Belhaven Hill, Dunbar. Husband of Constance Marion (Gough) Marrow of Belchester, Leitholm, Berwickshire who he married in 1911 in Norham, Northumberland.
Killed in Action on 25 April 1915 and buried in Twelve Tree Copse Cemetery, Gallipoli, Turkey.
Also named on the Harrow School memorial and Roll of Honour, on the Leithholm Parish War Memorial and on an individual memorial in St. Anne's Episcopal Church in Dunbar.

Kenneth Morrison · Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2022 9:39 am Post subject:

Three sons of the late William Mason (died 1914) and of Catherine (Main) Mason (died 1915) of Dunbar.

JOHN P. MASON
John Porteous Mason – age 28 – Sapper (24709) "G" Depot Company, Royal Engineers.
John landed with the 7th Field Company, as part of the 4th Division, on 23 August 1914 but he became ill with enteric fever and he was evacuated to the Queen Alexandra Hospital at Cosham, Fareham, Hampshire where he died.
Born 1886 in Dunbar.
Died on Service on 21 February 1915 and buried in Dunbar Cemetery. (CWG)

ROBERT MASON
Robert Mason – age 24 – Corporal (922) 8th/10th Battalion, Gordon Highlanders.
At the outbreak of war Robert was serving with the 2nd Gordon Highlanders in Cairo, Egypt. They returned to England before landing at Zeebrugge in Belgium in October 1914. Robert was wounded and evacuated to Portessie Auxiliary Hospital in Buckie, Moray in November 1915. He later was posted to the combined 8th/10th Battalion.
Born 1893 in Belhaven, Dunbar.
Missing in Action on 22 August 1917 and named on the Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium.

THOMAS MASON
Thomas Porteous Mason – age 18 – Able Seaman (J/21548) H.M.S. Indefatigable, Royal Navy.
Thomas was a farm labourer when he joined the navy as a Boy in May 1914. He joined the battlecruiser “Indefatigable” in September 1913 and was rated Ordinary Seaman in December 1913, and AB in October 1914. During the Battle of Jutland the “Indefatigable” was hit by shells from the German battlecruiser “Von der Tann” causing her to explode and sink.
Born 1896 in Dunbar.
Killed in Action/Lost at Sea on 31 May 1916 and named on the Plymouth Naval Memorial, Devon.

Kenneth Morrison · Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2022 9:47 am Post subject:

GEORGE MERCER
George Mercer age 40 – Lance Corporal (M2/227230) 728th Mechanical Transport Company, Army Service Corps.
In 1911 George was a motor car driver living with his wife and family at Holly Hill Stables, Sarisbury Green in Hampshire. The 728th Company was formed in June 1916 and it operated solely in Hitchin, Hertfordshire. George died in the Union Hospital in Hitchin.
Born 1879 in Whittingehame, Haddingtonshire/East Lothian. Son of the late Catherine (Wight) Mercer (died 1895) and of Peter Mercer of Pinkerton Farm, Dunbar. Husband of Mary Stephen (Webster) Mercer of 12 Monearn Terrace, Raemoir Road, Banchory, Kincardineshire who he married in 1910 in Aboyne, Aberdeenshire.
Died on Service on 14 November 1918 and buried in Fareham (St. Paul's, Sarisbury) Burial Ground, Hampshire. (CWG)
Also named on the Sarisbury War Memorial.

and his brother

RICHARD MERCER
Richard Wight Mercer – age 36 – Air Mechanic 1st Class (48620) 4th Aircraft Park, Royal Air Force.
In 1911 Richard was a stud groom living with his wife and family in Stratton, Cirencester, Gloucestershire. He died in Quetta on the north-west frontier of India (now in Pakistan) and is buried in the Government Cemetery there.
Born 1881 in Stenton, Haddingtonshire/East Lothian. Son of the late Catherine (Wight) Mercer (died 1895) and of Peter Mercer of Pinkerton Farm, Dunbar. Husband of Rose Minnie (Broad) Mercer of Meadow Cottage, Stratton, Cirencester, who he married in 1907 in Havant, Hampshire.
Died on Active Service on 27 June 1918 and named on the Delhi Memorial (India Gate) India.
Also named on the Stratton War Memorial.

ALEXANDER MILLAR
Alexander Smith Millar – age 25 – Private (46137) Royal Scots Fusiliers, transferred as Private (6286) to the 465th Agricultural Company of the Labour Corps.
Alexander's father had become a market gardener in Dunbar in about 1910. Alexander was on leave and had been visiting friends in Dunbar when he was found drowned at the entrance to the Old Harbour, Dunbar.
Born 1893 in Balerno, Currie, Midlothian. Son of Sholto George Douglas Miller and of Janet Henry (Smith) Millar of Ashfield Gardens, Dunbar.
Died on Service on 24 October 1918 and buried in Dunbar Cemetery. (CWG)

Kenneth Morrison · Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2022 9:53 am Post subject:

ALEXANDER MILLER
Alexander Miller – age 19 – Private (2564) 2nd Battalion, Royal Scots.
Alexander was a labourer in Dunbar when he enlisted in the Royal Scots Reserve in December 1912 He was mobilised at the outbreak of war and posted to his battalion in September 1914.
Born December 1892 in Dunbar. Son of Margaret Miller of 32 Victoria Street and of 123 High Street, Dunbar.
Missing in Action on 21 February 1915 and named on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium.

JAMES MONCRIEFF
James Moncrieff – age 26 – Corporal (12633) 5th Battalion, Cameron Highlanders.
James was employed in the office of the Scottish Insurance Corporation in Edinburgh and was a well known golfer in the Insurance and Banking Club of Duddingston. He landed with his battalion at Boulogne in May 1915 but he was wounded four months later during the battle of Loos and he died in the 1st Canadian General Hospital in Etaples.
Born 1889 in Prestonkirk, Haddingtonshire/East Lothian. Son of John and Jemima (Andison) Moncrieff of Hedderwick Hill, Dunbar, of 7 Eastfield. Joppa, Portobello and of 12 Letham Place, Dunbar.
Died of Wounds on 7 October 1915 and buried in Etaples Military Cemetery, France.
Also named on the St. Philip's Church memorial in Joppa.

and his brother

JOHN MONCRIEFF
John Moncrieff – age 30 – Private (6046) 7th Battalion, Australian Infantry.
John was a groom at Benjeroop, Victoria when he enlisted in April 1916. He sailed from Melbourne in July, landing at Plymouth in September, and he joined his battalion in France in November 1916.
Born 1886 in Prestonkirk, Haddingtonshire/East Lothian. Son of John and Jemima (Andison) Moncrieff of Hedderwick Hill, Dunbar, of 7 Eastfield. Joppa, Portobello and of 12 Letham Place, Dunbar.
Missing in Action on 27 April 1917 and named on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, France.

Kenneth Morrison · Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2022 9:58 am Post subject:

ANDREW MOODY
Andrew Moody – age 24 – Gunner (125548) “X” 25th Trench Mortar Battery, Royal Field Artillery.
By March 1916, most Divisions had three Medium Trench Mortar Batteries, designated X, Y and Z. For example, in the 25th Division they would be X.25,Y.25 and Z.25.
Born 1893 in Dunbar. Son of Andrew and Elizabeth (Frame) Moody of 58 High Street., Dunbar.
Missing in Action on 21 March 1918 and named on the Arras Memorial, France.

and his brother

JAMES T. MOODY
James Thomas Moody – age 31 – Sergeant (712) 1st Brigade, Australian Field Artillery.
James was a weighbridge mechanic when he enlisted in Sydney, New South Wales in September 1914. He sailed from Melbourne, Victoria in December 1914 and joined the 1st Brigade AFA at Alexandria in Egypt in April 1915. He transferred to the 4th Division Artillery in January 1916 and was posted to the 101st Battery. In April this battery moved to France and joined the 1st AFA.
Born 1886 in Dunbar. Son of Andrew and Elizabeth (Frame) Moody of 58 High Street., Dunbar.
Killed in Action on 14 April 1917 and buried in Noreuil Australian Cemetery, France.

WILLIAM J. MUSTARDE
William James Mustarde – age 35 – Private (6/1347) Canterbury Regiment, New Zealand Infantry.
William was an engineer with the Paparoa Coal Company at Blackball on the South Island of New Zealand when he enlisted at Greymouth in October 1914. He landed at Gallipoli in April 1915 but was wounded in August and evacuated to Cairo where he died of pneumonia in the New Zealand General Hospital.
Born 1879 in Dysart, Fife. Son of James Mustarde (former Coast Guard) and of Catherine (Clark) Mustarde of 1 Stanley Place, Dunbar.
Died on Active Service on 14 September 1915 and buried in Cairo War Memorial Cemetery, Egypt.

Kenneth Morrison · Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2022 10:06 am Post subject:

JOHN E. MYLES
John Edward Myles – age 19 – Private (S/20337) 1st Battalion, Cameron Highlanders.
John served his apprenticeship as a gardener at Broxmouth Park near Dunbar and was employed at Drumlanrig Castle in Dumfriesshire when he enlisted.
Born 1897 in Dunbar. Son of William and Jessie (Harris) Myles of East Barns, Dunbar and of 1 Silver Street, Dunbar.
Died of Wounds on 26 September 1916 and buried in Dernancourt Communal Cemetery Extension, Somme, France.
Also named on the Penpont Parish War Memorial in Dumfriesshire and possibly on the Innerwick Parish War Memorial in Berwickshire.

GEORGE MACDONALD
Though to be:
George Alexander McDonald – age 24 – Private (1024) 1/8th Battalion, Royal Scots.
George had worked as a joiner in Melrose, Roxburghshire before he moved to Haddington, East Lothian. He enlisted in Dunbar and landed with his battalion at La Havre in November 1914 but he was killed six months later near Festubert.
Born 1890 in North Berwick, East Lothian. Son of Robert and Jane (Durie) McDonald of Smith Street and of Albert Place, Darnick, Melrose.
Missing in Action on 16 May 1915 and named on the Le Touret Memorial, France.
Also named on the Darnick Village War Memorial and on the Melrose War Memorial.

JOHN M. MACDONALD – name added to the memorial in October 2019.
John Mellis Macdonald – age 24 – Captain, 1st Battalion, Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)
John was educated at Fettes College in Edinburgh before becoming a Student of the Arts at Edinburgh University in 1911 where he continued to be a member of the Officer Training Corps. He was commissioned from there in August 1914 and went to France in October 1914, was promoted to Lieutenant in November and later to Captain. John was killed at High Wood on the Somme.
Born 1892 in Dunbar. Son of the late William Burns Macdonald (died 1903) and of Laura Alexandra (Mellis) Macdonald.
Missing in Action on 20 July 1916 and named on the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme, France.

Kenneth Morrison · Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2022 10:15 am Post subject:

DAVID J. MACLEOD
David John Macleod – age 29 – Private (11329) 2nd Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders.
David arrived at Liverpool from Paraguay in November 1914 and enlisted in 2nd Dragoons (Royal Scots Greys) in December 1914. He transferred to A&SH in July 1915 and joined his battalion in France in October. David was killed near Nieuport in Belgium.
Born 1888 in Australia. Son of Allan Mann Macleod and Margaret Lilian (Logan) Macleod of Colonia Cosme, the so called New Australia Colony, in Paraguay, South America. Husband of Rhoda (Sinclair) Macleod of Abbey Manse, Dunbar who he married in May 1916 in Dunbar.
Killed in Action on 27 August 1917 and buried in Coxyde Military Cemetery, Belgium.

ROBERT MACLEOD
Robert Kirkwood McLeod – age 29 – Lance Corporal (139153) 3rd Battalion, Canadian Infantry.
In 1911 Robert, aged 20, was a joiner lodging with the Nisbet family at 123 High Street, Dunbar. He was a carpenter and a member of the local militia, the 9th Mississauga Horse, when he enlisted in Toronto, Ontario in July 1915. He sailed from Halifax, Nova Scotia with 75th Battalion (Mississauga) in March 1916 and was transferred to the 3rd Battalion in France in June. He was wounded September but after treatment in the 7th Canadian General Hospital he was able to rejoin his battalion a month later.
Born 1891 in Edinburgh. Son of the late Margaret Little (Kirkwood) McLeod (died 1906 in Edinburgh) and of John McLeod and of 41 Arundel Avenue, Toronto and of 323 Leith Walk, Leith, Edinburgh.
Missing in Action on 3 May 1917 and named on the Vimy Memorial, France.

JOHN C. MCINTOSH
John Clark McIntosh – age 32 – Private (40842) 12th Battalion, Royal Scots Fusiliers.
John had served his apprenticeship in Dunbar and was a draper, living with his sister Louisa Elizabeth at 15 Comely Bank Place in Edinburgh, when he enlisted as Private (4599) in the 9th Royal Scots in December 1915. He was mobilised in March 1916 and posted to the 1st RSF in France in October but due to illness he was evacuated home in February 1917. He was then posted to the 12th RSF in Egypt in July 1917 and moved back to France with them in May 1918. John died from gas poisoning in the 14th General Hospital at Wimereaux.
Born 1885 in Dunbar. Son of the late Colin McIntosh (died 1886) and of Fanny or Frances (Clark) McIntosh (died 1901) of Dunbar.
Died of Wounds on 31 August 1918 and buried in Terlincthun British Cemetery, Wimille, France.

Kenneth Morrison · Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2022 10:21 am Post subject:

HUGH McKIE – name added to the memorial in October 2019.
Hugh Mckie – age 27 – Sergeant (205535) 1st Battalion, Royal Scots Fusiliers.
Hugh was a motor mechanic and a Corporal in the 2/1st Ayrshire Yeomanry, living at 18 Church Street, Dunbar, when he married in March 1918. The 2/1st was absorbed into the 1st RSF which was selected to advance into Germany as part of the Occupation Force. Hugh died in the 17th Casualty Clearing Station which in December 1918 had moved to Düren to the west of Cologne.
Born 1891 in Ayr. Son of William and Mary (Carson) McKie of Ayr. Husband of Catherine Polwarth (Stewart) McKie of Bridge Cottage, West Barns, Dunbar who he married in 1918 in Dunbar.
Died on Service on 8 February 1919 and buried in Cologne Southern Cemetery, Germany.

ALEXANDER NISBET
Alexander Nisbet – age 26 – Lance Corporal (8865) 1st (Royal) Dragoons.
In 1911 Alexander was working as a groom at Morris Hall Mains, Norham-on-Tweed, Northumberland. He enlisted soon after the outbreak of war and was stationed at York for some time before going to France. Alexander was fatally wounded during a raid on a German trench.
Born 1890 in Dunbar. Son of Robert and Esther (Crichton) Nisbet of 4 Friarsbank Terrace, Dunbar.
Killed in Action on 25 June 1917 and buried in Villers-Faucon Communal Cemetery, France.

Kenneth Morrison · Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2022 10:48 am Post subject:

JAMES O'BRIEN
Possibly - but I cannot trace his death:
James O'Brien – age ?? – Stoker (305551) Royal Navy
James was a labourer when he joined the navy in December 1903. He was discharged in August 1919.
Born 1884 in Dunbar. Son of the late Patrick O'Brien (died 1916) and Bridget (Gilhooley) O'Brien (died 1914) of Dunbar.
Died??

and his brother

JOHN O'BRIEN
John O'Brien – age 25 – Private (3951) 8th Battalion, The Buffs (East Kent Regiment)
John landed with his battalion in France in August 1915 but he was wounded with a bullet in his lungs during the battle of Loos in September 1915 and he was made a prisoner of war. John died of pneumonia following influenza and was re-interred in Berlin after the war.
Born 1893 in Dunbar. Son of the late Patrick O'Brien (died 1916) and Bridget (Gilhooley) O'Brien (died 1914) of Dunbar.
Died on Service on 5 November 1918 and buried in Berlin South-Western Cemetery, Germany.

WILLIAM PAXTON
William Paxton – age 22 – Private (10459) 1st Battalion, Royal Scots Fusiliers.
By 1911 the family were living in Dunbar and William enlisted from there before the war. He landed with his battalion at Le Havre on 14 August 1914, one of the first British formations to move to France as part of the original British Expeditionary Force.
Born 1893 in Grantshouse, Coldingham, Berwickshire. Son of the late Alice (Purves) Paxton (died 1910) and of William Paxton, and step-son of Margaret (Murray) Paxton who married in 1910 in Dunbar.
Missing in Action on 16 June 1915 and named on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium.

Kenneth Morrison · Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2022 10:55 am Post subject:

ROBERT PENNEY
Note: some military records use Penny.
Robert Penny – age 36 – Corporal (18516) 10th/11th Battalion, Highland Light Infantry.
Robert had lived in Motherwell in Lanarkshire for eight years when he enlisted in February 1915. He joined the 11th HLI Signal Section and landed at Boulogne with his battalion in May 1915.
Born 1880 in Rothbury, Northumberland. Son of the late Margaret Elliot (Forster) Penney (died 1881) and of Robert Penney of 91 High Street, Dunbar.
Missing in Action on 3 September 1916 and named on the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme, France.

MARTIN POTT
Martin Pott – age 24 – Corporal (19338) 1/4th Battalion (Queen's Edinburgh Rifles) Royal Scots.
Martin was assisting his parents in the management of the Black Bull Hotel in Dunbar when he enlisted in the 16th Royal Scots (2nd Edinburgh) in December 1914. He landed with the battalion at Le Havre in January 1916 and was wounded in August but he was able to rejoin his battalion. He was wounded again a year later and he was evacuated to the Queen Mary's Military Hospital in Whalley, Lancashire in September 1917. After he had recovered he was posted to 1/4th Royal Scots who had just arrived in France from Egypt in May 1918.
Born 1893 in Spittal, Berwick, Northumberland. Son of the late John Pott (died 1911) formerly of Hawick and of the Black Bull Hotel in Dunbar and of Jessie Douglas (Peacock) Pott, of 74 High Street, Dunbar.
Died of Wounds on 23 August 1918 and buried in Bac-du-Sud British Cemetery, Bailleulval, France.

ROBERT POW
Robert Richardson Pow – age 31 – Private (273) 2nd Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders.
At the outbreak of war Robert was serving with the 1st Seaforths in Agra, India. They moved to France, landing at Marseilles in October 1914. At some point he was transferred to the 2nd Battalion. Robert was buried in Blangy Military Cemetery but was re-interred at Souchez in April 1924.
Born 1886 in Dunbar. Son of the late George Pow (died 1911) and of the late Jane (Richardson) Pow (died 1910) formerly of 57 High Street, Dunbar.
His brother William and his sister Mary R were named as his legatees.
Killed in Action on 3 May 1917 and buried in Cabaret-Rouge British Cemetery, Souchez, France.

Kenneth Morrison · Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2022 11:01 am Post subject:

Three sons of the late William Bowen Webb Prescott of Rathmines, Dublin (died 1905 in Dublin) and of Emily Jane (Smith) Prescott of Cairnbank, Bayswell Park, Dunbar.

G.C. PRESCOTT
George Crooke Prescott – age 20 – Corporal (990) 1/2nd Home Counties Field Company, Royal Engineers.
George was educated at Wellingborough School in Northamptonshire. He enlisted at the outbreak of war at Bexhill-on-Sea, Sussex and he landed with his company in France in December 1914. He was buried in the Asylum British Cemetery at Ypres in Belgium and was re-interred in 1920.
Born 1894 in Dublin.
Killed in Action on 20 April 1915 and buried in Bedford House Cemetery, Belgium.

ROBERT S. PRESCOTT
Robert Stewart Prescott – age 21 – Second Lieutenant, 10th Battalion, East Lancashire Regiment.
Robert was educated at Wellingborough School in Northamptonshire where he was a member of the Officer Training Corps. He was commissioned in April 1915 and landed in Egypt with the 11th East Lancs in December 1915. The battalion moved to France in March 1916.
Born 1895 in Dublin.
Killed in Action – 1 July 1916.
Commonwealth War Grave – Beaumont-Hamel British Cemetery, France
Note: The 10th Battalion of the East Lancs was a Reserve battalion and there is a record which indicates that Robert might have been attached to the 1st Battalion of the Lancashire Fusiliers when he was killed.

W.B.W. PRESCOTT
William Prescott – age 23 – Lance Sergeant (12743) 5th Battalion, Canadian Infantry.
Robert was educated at Wellingborough School in Northamptonshire and emigrated to Quebec in Canada in 1913. He was a clerk when he enlisted in the 12th Manitoba Dragoons in Minnedosa in August 1914. He volunteered for overseas service with the 5th Battalion at Valcartier Camp in Quebec in September and sailed from Canada in October. The Battalion landed in France in February 1915.
Born 1892 in Dublin as William Bowen Webb Prescott.
Missing in Action on 24 May 1915 and named on the Vimy Memorial, France.

All three brothers are also named on the Wellingborough School memorial.

Kenneth Morrison · Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2022 11:29 am Post subject:

ROBERT PRESTON
Possibly:
Robert Preston – age 21 – Private (14990) 12th Battalion attached to the 1/9th Battalion, Royal Scots.
In 1911 the family were at Caddonfoot, Selkirkshire. Robert enlisted in Haddington and landed with the 12th Battalion in France in May 1915.
Born 1895 in Lasswade, Midlothian. Son of the late Marion (Peden) Preston (died 1907 in Caddonfoot) and of James Preston of Clickmalloch, Bargrennan, Newton Stewart, Kirkcudbrightshire.
Killed in Action on 7 June 1916 and buried in Louez Military Cemetery, Duisans, France.

JOHN PUNTON
John Punton – age 26 – Private (6685) 1st (Royal) Dragoons.
John had been a railway porter in Glasgow before he joined the army five years earlier. He landed with his regiment at Ostende in Belgium in October 1914 after they had returned from South Africa. He was badly wounded in early September 1916 and died in the 3rd Canadian General Hospital in Le Treport.
Born 1890 in Ormiston, Haddingtonshire/East Lothian. Son of George and Isabella (Wyllie) Punton of Meikle Pinkerton, Dunbar.
Died of Wounds on 20 September 1916 and buried in Boulogne Eastern Cemetery, France.

WILLIAM PUNTON
William Punton – age 38 – Private (R/258993) Remount Depot, Army Service Corps.
William was an agricultural contractor living at 3 Vennel, Dunbar when he married in November 1915. He enlisted initially as Private (4682) in the 3/6th Highland Light Infantry before transferring to the ASC. William died in the Hursley Camp Military Hospital near Winchester, Hampshire.
Born 1881 in Dunbar. Son of Annie Punton and step-son of Robert Brunton who married in 1885 in Dunbar. Husband of Rebecca Punton (Ross) Punton who he married in 1915 in Dunbar; later Mrs Thomas Moore of 15 Richard Street, Anderston, Glasgow.
Died on Service on 3 February 1918 and buried in Glasgow (Craigton) Cemetery. (CWG)

Kenneth Morrison · Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2022 2:33 pm Post subject:

JOHN PRITCHARD
John Pritchard – age 19 – Private (12896) 6th Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers.
John was living in Dunbar when he enlisted and he landed with his battalion at Boulogne in May 1915 but he was killed four months later during the battle of Loos.
Born 1896 Belfast. Son of George and Sarah Campbell (Hamill) Pritchard of Pottinger, Belfast.
Missing in Action on 25 September 1915 and named on the Loos Memorial, France.

ANGUS RAMAGE
Angus Robertson Ramage – age 26 – Private (7637) 2nd Battalion, Scots Guards.
Angus joined the Scots Guards in 1910 and in 1911 he was serving with the 1st Scots Guards in Egypt. He joined the West Lothian Constabulary in May 1913 and as a reservist he joined the 2nd Battalion at the front in October 1914 but he was killed three weeks later at Ypres.
Born 1888 in Dunbar. Son of Andrew Ramage (died 1917 at Dalmeny, West Lothian) and of Isabella (Robertson) Ramage.
Missing in Action on 26 October 1914 and named on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium.
Also named on the Dalmeny Parish War Memorial and on the West Lothian Constabulary memorial in Linlithgow.

FREDERICK C. REED – name added to the memorial in October 2019.
Frederick Cecil Reed – age 60 – Captain and Adjutant , 3/7th Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders.
In 1901 Frederick was Quartermaster with the honorary rank of Lieutenant in the Royal Artillery living at Oliver Villa, Bayswell, Dunbar. He was appointed in March 1915 as “7th Battalion, Princess Louise's (Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders) Frederick Reed (late Quartermaster and Honorary Captain Royal Artillery) to be Captain (temporary) and Adjutant.” He died suddenly in the officers' quarters in the Royal Oak Hotel in Alloa, Clackmannanshire
Born 1855 in Buxted, Uckfield, Sussex as Frederick Moon. Son of William and Thomasina (Brown) Moon.
He changed his name to Reed when he enlisted in the Royal Artillery in 1876.
Husband of the late Sarah Ann (Atkins) Reed (died 1904 in Dunbar) and of Frances Maud (Swift) Reed of 6 Marine Drive, Dunbar and of 171 Dalkeith Road, Edinburgh who he married in 1905 in Edinburgh.
Died on Service on 28 April 1915 and buried in Dunbar Cemetery. (CWG)