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dhubthaigh · Posted: Thu Apr 22, 2010 8:25 pm Post subject: GORDON STEWART NESS

On the boundary wall at Ardoch Parish Church;

Name: NESS, GORDON STUART
Initials: G S
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Lieutenant
Regiment/Service: Royal Scots Fusiliers
Unit Text: 3rd Bn. attd. 1st Bn.
Date of Death: 10/11/1914
Additional information: Son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Ness, of Braco Castle, Perthshire; husband of Gladys Ness.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 19 and 33.
Memorial: YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL

THE STRATHEARN HERALD: 21.11.1914
LIEUTENANT GORDON S. NESS, BRACO CASTLE - KILLED

Information reached Braco this week of the death of Lieutenant Gordon S. Ness, Royal Scots Fusiliers. who was killed in action on November 10th. Lieutenant Ness was the youngest surviving son of the late Patrick Ness Esq., of Braco Castle, and was very well-known and highly respected by all in Braco district. Much sympathy is felt for his sorrowing relatives.

dhubthaigh · Posted: Thu Apr 22, 2010 8:26 pm Post subject:

IN LOVING MEMORY OF
GORDON STEWART NESS,
1ST ROYAL SCOTS FUSILIERS,
KILLED IN ACTION AT YPRES,
NOV. 11TH 1914, AGED 28 YEARS
"HE THAT BELIEVETH IN ME, THOUGH HE
WERE DEAD, YET SHALL HE LIVE. "

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