The Scottish Military Research Group - Commemorations Project

apanderson · Posted: Tue Sep 07, 2010 11:16 am Post subject: Dollar Academy

A few men listed on this memorial I can't find. (All WW1)

They obviously have a connection to the Academy but that connection might (in some cases) be only because they were educated there.

WEARING?, George, Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders Found
BLACKWOOD, George, Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders
McGEACHEN, James, Cameronians, 2nd September 1916 (also listed on Dollar Parish Church & a stone in Dollar Cemetery)
BLACK, Alastair W. G., Cameronians (also listed on Dollar West Church)
HEWETT, Scott W. D., Gordon Highlanders
McGREGOR, John L. C., Driver, Army Service Corps (also listed on Dollar Parish Church)
CRAM, John M., Ltg., Canadian R.A.F.? Found
HEPBURN, Horace, Pte, Canadian Camerons? Found
SLOAN, W. M., Canadian Highlanders?
PAULIN, Charles R., 2nd Lt., Indan Reserve (Brother of Sculptor)
McCLELLAND, George S., 2nd Lt., K.O.S.B. Found
MURRAY, John, 2nd Lt., K.O.S.B. Found
GRANT, William, Pte., Black Watch (also listed on Dollar Parish Church)
STEWART, Alexander, Pte., Black Watch

This man is listed on Dollar Parish Church - can't find him either
Captain J. GRAY GIBSON, Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders

I've tried spelling variations etc., but sometimes there's simply too many men of the same name in the same regiment to identify which one's which.

Anne

P.S. Am working on this memorial along with Dollar's 'other' Civic and 2 existing Churches (3 memorials), so no doubt there will be more to come when I get to WW2! Laughing

kinnethmont · Joined: 19 Dec 2006 Posts: 1649 Location: Aberdeenshire

Horace Oswald Pringle Hepburn. NOK, mother, in Aberdeen Jan 1918.

Name: HEPBURN
Initials: H O P
Nationality: Canadian
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Canadian Infantry (Manitoba Regiment)
Unit Text: 43rd Bn.
Age: 30
Date of Death: 01/10/1918
Service No: 2379938
Additional information: Son of William Hepburn (Solicitor) and Elizabeth Margaret Hepburn, of 38, Mayfield Terrace, Dundee, Scotland.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: B. 7.
Cemetery: MILL SWITCH BRITISH CEMETERY, TILLOY-LES-CAMBRAI

Name: CRAM, JOHN MITCHELL
Initials: J M
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Second Lieutenant
Regiment/Service: Royal Air Force
Unit Text: 43rd Wing
Age: 24
Date of Death: 26/08/1918
Additional information: Son of John Mitchell Cram and Jessie Baillie Cram, of Glen Devon, Dollar, Scotland; husband of Mida Marguerite Cram, of 2064, Cameron St., Regina, Sask.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Sec. 19. Lot 104.
Cemetery: OTTAWA (BEECHWOOD) CEMETERY

Could this be 2 Lt. McClelland

Name: McCLELLAND, SAMUEL GEORGE
Initials: S G
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Second Lieutenant
Regiment/Service: King's Own Scottish Borderers
Unit Text: 8th Bn.
Date of Death: 25/09/1915
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 53 to 56.
Memorial: LOOS MEMORIAL

His NOK, father, at Epsom in 1922

George Wareing, Old Town, Dollar was embodied into the TF for the Duration in October 1914, landed France in December. He was an ex Argyll.
3045, 7th A & SH discharged medically unfit (KR 392) March 1916.
Died age 55 at Dollar in 1920. DC mentions gas poisioning 3 years but nothing to link to the surviving records which list simply - debility.

Can you check for anything in the papers, obit, etc?
_________________
Jim

If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

www.kinnethmont.co.uk

apanderson · Posted: Tue Sep 07, 2010 8:52 pm Post subject:

Thanks Jim!

2 down, 13 to go! Very Happy

Anne

spoons · Posted: Tue Sep 07, 2010 10:21 pm Post subject:

Probably this man

Name: MURRAY
Initials: J
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Second Lieutenant
Regiment/Service: King's Own Scottish Borderers
Unit Text: 5th Bn. attd. 1st Bn.
Age: 19
Date of Death: 16/08/1917
Additional information: Only son of the late Rev. George Murray, B.D., of Troquhain, and of Elizabeth Murray, of Meadowbank, New Galloway, Kirkcudbrightshire.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 66 to 68.
Memorial: TYNE COT MEMORIAL

I know he attended Fettes College and there are 2 significant local memorials to him in Balmaclellan and New Galloway

apanderson · Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2010 6:26 am Post subject:

Thanks Jim/Spoons!

Anne

Cruachan · Posted: Sat Nov 27, 2010 11:30 am Post subject: Capt. J Gray Gibson

Capt. J Gray Gibson

This man lived at Belmont, Dollar at the time of his death and was an ex army officer although on his death certificate he is entered as a Retired Woollen manufacturer. At the outbreak of war he had served as a Captain in the 2/7 Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders at Alloa and Norfolk but I presume due to ill health he retired. He was Captain of the Sauchie Company of the Clackmannanshire Volunteer Battallion . He died in his home at Belmont, Dollar of pneumonia on 25 Aug 1916. He was given a military funeral with three volleys being fired over his grave and the playing of the last post. He does not appear on the CWWGC because he was not a full time officer. He is mentioned on the war Memorial in Tillicoultry Parish Church which was how I came to investigate his non-appearance on the CWWGC site.
When the then St Serf's ( Tillicoultry) Parish Church was renovated in 1929 his widow and a brother gifted the handsome brass eagle lectern in the church. At that point they were living in Redmayes, Dollar Road, Tillicoultry

Mary McIntyre

Cruachan · Posted: Sun Nov 28, 2010 9:49 pm Post subject: Missing men on Memorial in Dollar

Name: McGREGOR, JOHN LAMB
Initials: J L
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Driver
Regiment/Service: Royal Army Service Corps
Unit Text: 1000th H.T. Coy.
Age: 21
Date of Death: 12/06/1919
Service No: T/365192
Additional information: Son of Mr.and Mrs. Donald McGregor, of Old Town, Dollar, Clackmannanshire.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: 360.
Cemetery: BEIRUT WAR CEMETERY