The Scottish Military Research Group - Commemorations Project

Mike Morley · Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2021 6:32 pm Post subject:

Name: SAMSON, WILLIAM
Initials: W
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Service Number: 305301
Regiment/Service: Highland Light Infantry, 8th Bn, attd. 16th Bn. Royal Scots
Date of Death: 3/8/1916
Panel Reference: Pier and Face 15C
Memorial: Thiepval Memorial.

Also named on St Nicholas Church War Memorial.

Mike Morley · Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2021 6:36 pm Post subject:

Name: SCOTT, DAVID
Initials: D
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Second Lieutenant
Regiment/Service: Royal Scots Fusiliers, 7th Bn attd 1st Bn
Date of Death: 7/4/1917
Age: 29
Additional Information: Son of Philip and Maria Scott, of Station Hotel, Lanark. Native of Edinburgh.
Grave Reference: I C 8
Cemetery: Wanquetin Communal Cemetery Extension.

Also named on St Nicholas Church War Memorial.

Mike Morley · Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2021 6:39 pm Post subject:

Name: SCOTT, JJ
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Service Number: 235061
Regiment/Service: Cameronians (Scottish Rifles), 9th Bn
Date of Death: 27/4/1918
Grave Reference: I A 5
Cemetery: Esquelbecq Military Cemetery.

Mike Morley · Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2021 6:42 pm Post subject:

Name: SELKIRK, A
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Lance Corporal
Service Number: 17377
Regiment/Service: Cameron Highlanders, 2nd Bn
Date of Death: 16/3/1917
Additional Information: Son of Jessie Selkirk, of 23, Quarry Street, Hamilton.
Grave Reference: VI F 2
Cemetery: Struma Military Cemetery.

Mike Morley · Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2021 6:51 pm Post subject:

David Inglis is named on Lanark and Kirkfieldbank War Memorials.

His Pension Papers do exist and state that he lived at Kirkfieldbank, Service Number 27205, rank Private, regiment HLI. He was discharged on 10/3/1919 on grounds of disability and died 5/11/1921.

Death Record (Scotland's People) shows he was a House Painter (Army Pensioner) who died at Bellahouston Hospital (residence Kirkfieldbank, Lanark). Died 5/11/1921, aged 33. Cause of Death: Chronic Intestinal Nephritis and Uraemia.

Mike Morley · Posted: Thu Oct 07, 2021 11:00 am Post subject:

Name: SHAND, WILLIAM GARROW
Initials: WG
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Captain
Regiment/Service: Royal Army Medical Corps, attd. 20th Bn. Lancashire Fusiliers
Date of Death: 25/7/1916
Age: 34
Additional Information: Son of John and Grace Shand, of Lanark. M.B., Ch.B. late of Salford, England.
Grave Reference: Plot 1, Row F, Grave 31
Cemetery: Corbie Communal Cemetery Extension.

Also named on Salford War Memorial and in the University of Glasgow Memorial Chapel and on St Leonard's Church Memorial.

A short biographical note about Capt Shand can be seen on the University's Roll of Honour: https://universitystory.gla.ac.uk/ww1-biography/?id=2425

Mike Morley · Posted: Thu Oct 07, 2021 11:07 am Post subject:

Name: SHAW, WILLIAM
Initials: W
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Lance Corporal
Service Number: S/15379
Regiment/Service: Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, 11th Bn
Date of Death: 23/4/1917
Age: 25
Additional Information: Son of James Shaw, of 69, Castlegate, Lanark.
Panel Reference: Bay 9
Memorial: Arras Memorial.

Mike Morley · Posted: Thu Oct 07, 2021 11:12 am Post subject:

Name: SHEPARD, ROBERT
Initials: R
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Service Number: 332907
Regiment/Service: Highland Light Infantry, 14th Bn, formerly (1353) Lanarkshire Yeomanry
Date of Death: 23/3/1918
Age: 28
Additional Information: Husband of the late Agnes Anderson Wilson Shepard.
Panel Reference: Bay 8
Memorial: Arras Memorial.

Also named on St Nicholas Church War Memorial.

Mike Morley · Posted: Thu Oct 07, 2021 11:16 am Post subject:

Name: SKELLY, WILLIAM
Initials: W
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Service Number: 665
Regiment/Service: Highland Light Infantry, 11th Bn
Date of Death: 28/4/1916
Grave Reference: II D 141
Cemetery: Bailleul Communal Cemetery Extension, Nord.

Mike Morley · Posted: Thu Oct 07, 2021 11:21 am Post subject:

Name: SOMMERVILLE, ALLAN RUSSELL
Initials: AR
Nationality: Canadian
Rank: Private
Service Number: 422832
Regiment/Service: 2nd Canadian Mounted Rifles Battalion
Date of Death: 24/3/1917
Age: 33
Additional Information: Son of Thomas and Helen Sommerville, of New Lanark.
Grave Reference: St. Kentigern's Sec. Near South boundary.
Cemetery: Lanark Cemetery.

Also named on New Lanark War Memorial.

Mike Morley · Posted: Thu Oct 07, 2021 11:27 am Post subject:

Name: SOMMERVILLE, HUGH
Initials: H
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Service Number: 4436
Regiment/Service: Highland Light Infantry, 9th (Glasgow Hdrs) Bn
Date of Death: 1/11/1916
Age: 25
Panel Reference: Pier and Face 15C
Memorial: Thiepval Memorial.

Also named on St Leonard's Church, Lanark War Memorial.

Mike Morley · Posted: Thu Oct 07, 2021 1:20 pm Post subject:

Name: SOUTH, RICHARD
Initials: R
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Service Number: 24901
Regiment/Service: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, 11th Bn
Date of Death: 16/8/1917
Age: 20
Additional Information: Son of Mrs. Catherine South, of 13, Long Row, New Lanark, Lanark.
Panel Reference: Panel 70 to 72
Memorial: Tyne Cot Memorial.

Also named on New Lanark War Memorial.

Mike Morley · Posted: Thu Oct 07, 2021 1:23 pm Post subject:

Name: SPEIRS, C
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Service Number: 43072
Regiment/Service: Royal Scots, 12th Bn
Date of Death: 6/6/1917
Additional Information: Son of Mary Speirs, of 12, Wellgatehead, Lanark.
Grave Reference: IV F 37
Cemetery: Duisans British Cemetery, Etrun.

Mike Morley · Posted: Thu Oct 07, 2021 1:26 pm Post subject:

Name: STEELE, JOHN
Initials: J
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Service Number: 7006
Regiment/Service: Highland Light Infantry, 8th Bn
Date of Death: 28/6/1915
Panel Reference: Panel 174 to 178
Memorial: Helles Memorial.

Mike Morley · Posted: Thu Oct 07, 2021 1:29 pm Post subject:

Name: STEWART, H
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Service Number: 34060
Regiment/Service: Cameronians (Scottish Rifles), 1st/7th Bn
Date of Death: 23/11/1917
Grave Reference: K 76
Cemetery: Jerusalem War Cemetery.