The Scottish Military Research Group - Commemorations Project

anne park · Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2015 2:03 pm Post subject: George Ramsay

George Ramsay Private S/19286 1/14th Bn Gordon Highlanders posted to London Regiment (London Scottish) b Biggar, Lanark. e London Age 27 Died of Wounds West-Vlaanderen, Belgium 25/09/1918 Son of George Ramsay, of Kirkstyle, Biggar, Lanarkshire. Formerly 37066 Royal Engineers. Westoutre British Cemetery B 192 Row N Grave 17 Hamilton Advertiser 12-10-18 Page 1 Biggar High School & Biggar Parish
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Researching WWI info from Aberdeenshire, Banffshire, Kincardineshire & Morayshire.

Kenneth Morrison · Posted: Sun Jun 19, 2016 7:01 am Post subject:

The name JAMES SYRIA caught my eye Confused

Born 1895 in Biggar, he enlisted on 24 September 1915 and served as Private (22396) in the Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) and as Private (12319) in the Machine Gun Corps. He was discharged on 24 July 1918 and awarded a Silver War Badge (488961)
James died, aged 32, in 1928 at Shotts, Lanarkshire and so is not on the CWGC Register.
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Kenneth Morrison · Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2018 4:45 pm Post subject:

List of names is at:
http://www.lostancestors.eu/memwar/B/Biggar.htm
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Kenneth Morrison · Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2018 4:49 pm Post subject:

DAVID ARMSTRONG.

Named on the Annan War Memorial as:

ARMSTRONG, D. R.A.
David Armstrong – age 32 – Gunner (95219) 248th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery.
David served his apprenticeship at Buittle in Kirkcudbrightshire and was a gardener to William Watson MP at Edmonston in Biggar, Lanarkshire when he enlisted in December 1915. He was mobilised in May 1916, was trained in Signalling & Telephony at Hipswell Camp, Catterick in Yorkshire in October and landed with his battery in France on 16 February 1917. He was killed four months later.
Born 1885 in Annan, Dumfriesshire. Son of Margaret Johnstone of 6 Johnstone Street, Annan. Husband of Elizabeth Robertson (Moffat) Armstrong of Candy Mill Cottage, Biggar, Lanarkshire who he married in 1906 in Portobello, Edinburgh.
Killed in Action on 3 June 1917 and buried in La Clytte Military Cemetery, Belgium.
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Mike Morley · Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2018 7:07 pm Post subject:

Name: LIND, WILLIAM
Initials: W
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Service Number: 33679
Regiment/Service: Royal Berkshire Regiment, 5th Bn
Cate of Death: 28/4/1917
Age: 30
Additional Information: Son of the late Mr. and Mrs. James Lind; husband of Eliza Lind, of Spittal Cottages, Biggar, Lanarkshire.
Panel Reference: Bay 7
Memorial: Arras Memorial

Also named on Skirling and Peebles War Memorials.

Mike Morley · Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2019 8:37 pm Post subject:

Name: MACKAY, DAVID JOHN
Initials: DJ
Rank: Private
Service No: B/201527
Regiment/Service: Rifle Brigade posted to 1st/28th Bn London Regiment (Artists' Rifles)
Date of Death: 30/10/1917
Age: 26
Additional Information: Son of Donald and Catherine MacKay, of Balwastie, Biggarshields, Biggar, Lanarkshire.
Panel Reference: Panel 145 to 147.
Memorial: TYNE COT MEMORIAL

Also named on Newlands War Memorial and Peebles War Memorial.

Mike Morley · Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2019 11:50 am Post subject:

Name: MCMORRAN, JOHN
Initials: J
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Service Number: 24774
Regiment/Service: Royal Scots, 17th Bn
Awards: MSM
Date of Death: 19/10/1917
Age: 31
Additional Information: Son of the late Mr. and Mrs. John McMorran, of Lintons Buildings, Biggar, Lanarkshire; husband of Susanna Morrison Towle (formerly McMorran), of Smallburn, Muirkirk, Ayrshire.
Panel Reference: Panel 11 to 14 and 162
Memorial: Tyne Cot Memorial

Also named on Peebles War Memorial, Broughton War Memorial and Biggar School Memorial.

Mike Morley · Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2019 9:24 pm Post subject:

Name: PORTEOUS, J
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Sapper
Service Number: 48796
Regiment/Service: Royal Engineers, "G" Depot Coy
Date of Death: 28/1/1919
Age: 37
Additional Information: Son of Mrs. Helen Porteous, of Kirk Style, Biggar.
Grave Reference: 238
Cemetery: Biggar Cemetery

Also named on Peebles War Memorial and Biggar High School memorial.

Mike Morley · Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2019 9:27 pm Post subject:

Name: SEMPLE, G
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Corporal
Service Number: 584
Regiment/Service Number: Lanarkshire Yeomanry
Date of Death: 24/12/1915
Age: 23
Additional Information: Son of James Semple, of St. Helen's, Biggar, Lanarkshire. Of Pyatknowe, Peebles.
Grave Reference: III D 17
Cemetery: Pink Farm Cemetery, Helles.

Also named on Broughton and Peebles War Memorials and Biggar High School Memorial.

Mike Morley · Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2019 11:28 am Post subject:

Name: TELFER, DOUGLAS LESLIE ALEXANDER
Initials: DLA
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Service Number: 51157
Regiment/Service: Royal Scots Fusiliers, 2nd Bn
Date of Death: 28/4/1918
Age: 19
Additional Information: Son of Alexander and Jane Telfer, of Hartree, Biggar, Lanarkshire.
Grave Reference: III B 30
Cemetery: Lille Southern Cemetery

Also named on Peebles and Broughton War Memorials.

Mike Morley · Posted: Sat Oct 12, 2019 7:06 pm Post subject:

Name: ALCOCK, WILLIAM
Initials: W
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Service Number: 19174
Regiment/Service: Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders, 1st/8th Bn
Date of Death: 18/8/1917
Age: 31
Additional Information: Son of Capt. and Mrs. William Alcock, of West End, Biggar, Lanarkshire.
Grave Reference: XXII P 1
Cemetery: Etaples Military Cemetery.

Also named on Biggar High School memorial.

Mike Morley · Posted: Sat Oct 12, 2019 7:16 pm Post subject:

Name: ANDERSON, FRANK
Initials: F
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Service Number: 59208
Regiment/Service: Royal Army Medical Corps, 30th (Malta Garrison) Coy
Date of Death: 11/3/1917
Grave Reference: D XVIII 3
Cemetery: Pieta Military Cemetery

SNWM states born at Biggar.

Also named on Biggar Parish Church War Memorial and Biggar High School War Memorial.

Mike Morley · Posted: Sat Oct 12, 2019 7:32 pm Post subject:

Name: BONNAR, THOMAS NEWTON
Initials: TN
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: 2nd Corporal
Service Number: 50282
Regiment/Service: Royal Engineers, 85th Field Coy
Date of Death: 18/9/1915
Age: 24
Additional Information: Son of the late Alexander and Elizabeth Bonnar, of Biggar, Lanarkshire.
Grave Reference: B XIII 6
Cemetery: Pieta Military Cemetery.

Also named on Biggar Parish Church War Memorial and Biggar High School War Memorial.

Mike Morley · Posted: Mon Oct 14, 2019 6:20 pm Post subject:

Name: BOYD, KENNETH
Initials: K
Nationality: Canada
Rank: Private
Service NUmber: 2022792
Regiment/Service: Canadian Railway Troops
Date of Death: 12/11/1918
Age: 23
Additional Information: Son of Drusilla Boyd, of 512, 26th Avenue, Calgary, Alberta, and the late John Boyd.
Grave Reference: Sec 17. 3057
Cemetery: Toronto (Prospect) Cemetery

Note: Canadian military records state born Biggar.

Also named on Biggar School War Memorial.

Mike Morley · Posted: Sat May 16, 2020 6:39 pm Post subject:

Name: GIBSON, R
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Service Number: 35791
Regiment/Service: Royal Scots Fusiliers, 1st Bn
Date of Death: 26/9/1917
Age: 34
Additional Information: Son of William and Jane Gibson, of Wellparkhead, Biggar, Lanarkshire.
Grave Reference: III C 9
Cemetery: Dochy Farm New British Cemetery.

Also named on Biggar Parish Church Memorial, Biggar School Memorial and Symington War Memorial.