The Scottish Military Research Group - Commemorations Project

Adam Brown · Last edited by Adam Brown on Wed Feb 25, 2009 11:16 am; edited 1 time in total

St Andrew's Church, Great War Memorial
Location: St Andrew's & St George's Church, George Street, Edinburgh
OS Ref: NT 254 741

St Andrew's merged with Queen Street Church between the wars and the St George's in 1964. These are the St Andrew's Church Great War plaques

Adam

Adam Brown · Posted: Sun Feb 22, 2009 6:32 am Post subject:

Here is the first 'man' on the list

MUIR, GEORGE WATSON
Initials: G W
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Midshipman
Regiment/Service: Royal Navy
Unit Text: H.M.S "Monmouth."
Age: 15
Date of Death: 01/11/1914
Additional information: Son of Andrew Gray Muir (Writer to the Signet) and Mary Elizabeth Henderson or Muir, of 17, Grosvenor Crescent, Edinburgh.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: 1.
Memorial: PLYMOUTH NAVAL MEMORIAL

H.M.S "Monmouth" was cruiser lost with all 628 hands at the Battle of Coronel.

This was the first man from the church to die

RILEY, ALEXANDER
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Cameron Highlanders
Unit Text: 1st Bn.
Date of Death: 14/09/1914
Service No: 6795
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Memorial: LA FERTE-SOUS-JOUARRE MEMORIAL

Adam

DelBoy · Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2011 4:07 am Post subject: Mid. George Watson Muir

Mid. George Watson Muir

(Glasgow Herald 14th of November 1914)
"In the naval action off the coat of Chile, on 1st November, George Watson Muir, naval cadet, H.M.S. Monmouth, aged 15, elder son of Andrew Gray Muir, Writer to the Signet, and Mrs Gray Muir, 17 Grosvenor Crescent, Edinburgh."

Derek.