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Kenneth Morrison
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 Posted: Mon Nov 16, 2009 5:44 pm Post subject: John McDougall - different services on different memorials. |
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John Joseph McDougall, born in New Abbey, is buried in a CWG in New Abbey Cemetery. The headstone is inscribed: 202513 Chief Mechanic Royal Air Force, 17 November 1918.
He enlisted in January 1915 and was posted, as a Petty Officer Mechanic, to the Royal Naval Air Service Airship Station at Howden,Yorkshire. Promoted to CPO in September 1917, he was transferred to the RAF on 1 April 1918. He died at Howden.
The unusual thing is that he is listed on the New Abbey Memorial as RAF but on the Dalton Memorial (near Annan) as CPO - RNAS (and I don't know why he is listed there  )
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kinnethmont
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| Posted: Mon Nov 16, 2009 7:36 pm Post subject: John McDougall - RNAS / RAF Howden |
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Assuming they are, in fact, the same man it may well be the Comittee at Annan were not aware of his transfer to RAF. They may only have known he was still at Howden Airship Station
RNAS Howden became RAF Howden with the 1918 change.
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