The Scottish War Memorials Project

DelBoy · Posted: Sun May 24, 2009 10:53 am Post subject: Arbroath Ladyloan WW1

This memorial remembers those of the congregation of Ladyloan church who died in WW1.
The Ladyloan church is demolished and the memorial is now in The West Kirk.

UKNIWM No: unlisted

ERECTED WITH THE
LECTERN IN THE CHURCH
TO THE GLORY OF GOD
AND IN LOVING MEMORY
OF OUR GALLANT DEAD

Edwin Thomson died 12th March 1915
Norman J.A. Smith died 11th April 1915
Edward MacLure died 21st Jan 1916
John B. Fairweather died 14th April 1917
James Fairweather died 23rd April 1917
William Bennett died 3rd August 1917
John S. Boath died 4th Feb 1919
Alexander M. Wallace died 5th June 1919

DelBoy · Posted: Sun May 24, 2009 11:14 am Post subject:

Name: THOMSON, EDWIN
Initials: E
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Corporal
Regiment/Service: Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)
Unit Text: 1st/5th Bn.
Age: 30
Date of Death: 12/03/1915
Service No: 2265
Additional information: Son of David and Mary Ann Jack Thomson, of 100, High St., Arbroath.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: II. D. 2.
Cemetery: ESTAIRES COMMUNAL CEMETERY AND EXTENSION

DelBoy · Posted: Sun May 24, 2009 11:15 am Post subject:

Name: SMITH, NORMAN JAMES ADAM
Initials: N J A
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)
Unit Text: 5th Bn.
Age: 20
Date of Death: 11/04/1915
Service No: 2370
Additional information: Son of Alexander Sorley Smith and Kathrine Farquhar Smith, of "Lyndhurst." I, Dalhousie Place, Arbroath.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: II. A. 1.
Cemetery: SAILLY-SUR-LA-LYS CANADIAN CEMETERY

DelBoy · Posted: Sun May 24, 2009 11:17 am Post subject:

Name: MACLURE, EDWARD
Initials: E
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)
Unit Text: 2nd Bn.
Age: 21
Date of Death: 21/01/1916
Service No: S/6958
Additional information: Son of Mr. and Mrs. John M. Maclure, of 3, Fergus Square, Arbroath, Forfarshire.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 25 and 63.
Memorial: BASRA MEMORIAL

DelBoy · Posted: Sun May 24, 2009 2:37 pm Post subject:

Name: FAIRWEATHER, JOHN B
Initials: J
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Serjeant
Regiment/Service: Royal Scots
Unit Text: 11th Bn.
Date of Death: 14/04/1917
Service No: 9951
Awards: M M (Military Medal)
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: II. E. 36.
Cemetery: AUBIGNY COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION

DelBoy · Posted: Sun May 24, 2009 2:39 pm Post subject:

Name: FAIRWEATHER, JAMES
Initials: J
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)
Unit Text: 1st/7th Bn.
Age: 25
Date of Death: 25/04/1917
Service No: 292404
Additional information: Son of the late John Fairweather and of Mary Dalrymple Fairweather, of 13, Guthrie Port, Arbroath, Forfarshire; husband of Jean Bremner Cargill (formerly Fairweather).
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: III. B. 45.
Cemetery: BROWN'S COPSE CEMETERY, ROEUX

DelBoy · Posted: Sun May 24, 2009 2:46 pm Post subject:

Name: BENNETT, WILLIAM
Initials: W
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)
Unit Text: 4th/5th Bn.
Date of Death: 31/07/1917
Service No: 200676
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 37.
Memorial: YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL

a few days d.o.d. diffeence, but it's the only William Bennet in B.W.

DelBoy · Posted: Sun May 24, 2009 2:49 pm Post subject:

Name: BOATH, JOHN SCOTT
Initials: J S
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)
Unit Text: 3rd/5th Bn.
Secondary Regiment: Labour Corps
Secondary Unit Text: transf. to (262469) 450th Home Service Employment Coy.
Age: 42
Date of Death: 04/02/1919
Service No: 3850
Additional information: Son of the late William and Helen Mill Boath; husband of Elizabeth Whytock Boath, of 28, Bank St., Arbroath.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: P. 109.
Cemetery: ARBROATH WESTERN CEMETERY

DelBoy · Posted: Sun May 24, 2009 2:50 pm Post subject:

Name: WALLACE, ALEXANDER M
Initials: A M
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Fitter Corporal
Regiment/Service: Royal Field Artillery
Unit Text: 262nd Bde.
Age: 28
Date of Death: 05/06/1919
Service No: 660379
Additional information: Son of James Wallace, of 42, Elliot St., Arbroath, Forfarshire.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: P. 34.
Cemetery: CAIRO WAR MEMORIAL CEMETERY