The Scottish Military Research Group - Commemorations Project

jrah60 · Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2010 5:58 pm Post subject: Blaney Memorial, East Ham, London

Many thanks to Iain Lauchlan, nephew of John Lauchlan, for providing me with the following information.

Three of the casualties were Scottish

Name: LAUCHLAN, JOHN
Initials: J
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Driver
Regiment/Service: Royal Engineers
Unit Text: 5 Bomb Disposal Coy.
Age: 20
Date of Death: 13/12/1940
Service No: 2010665
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Sec. P. Grave 68.
Cemetery: KILMARNOCK CEMETERY, AYRSHIRE, SCOTLAND.

Name: ROBERTS, CHARLES
Initials: C
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Staff Serjeant
Regiment/Service: Royal Engineers
Unit Text: 1 Bomb Disposal Coy.
Age: 36
Date of Death: 13/12/1940
Service No: 2971038
Additional information: Son of George T. Roberts and Mary Roberts, of Kilsyth; husband of Janet Provan Roberts, of Kilsyth.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Extn. 3. Grave 879.
Cemetery: KILSYTH CEMETERY, SCOTLAND

Name: McLAREN, EDWARD
Initials: E
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Sapper
Regiment/Service: Royal Engineers
Unit Text: 5 Bomb Disposal Coy.
Age: 22
Date of Death: 13/12/1940
Service No: 2198847
Additional information: Son of Edward and Helen West McLaren; husband of Eileen MacInally McLaren, of Beechwood.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Sec. G.G. Grave 233.
Cemetery: DUNDEE (BALGAY) CEMETERY, SCOTLAND

John

stuartn · Joined: 13 Dec 2016 Posts: 2551

This memorial, WMR 43730 is lost. However there is a replacement memorial, which is WMR 43731