The Scottish Military Research Group - Commemorations Project

john burnett · Joined: 29 Jan 2007 Posts: 790 Location: Fife

Thanks to Mrs Aase Goldsmith for passing me the cutting.
Does anyone know the answer to the query?

Kenneth Morrison · Posted: Fri Nov 04, 2011 5:12 pm Post subject:

Can't help with the memorial but
Francis Johnston, Farm Manager (Single) age 26, died 29 November 1919 of Meningitis at 6 Union Terrace, Dundee. Usual Res: Balgary Mains.
There is no mention of war wounds.
The death was registered by a brother J.W. Johnston.
His father - John (deceased) mother - Charlotte m.s. Kennedy

His older brother:
Name: JOHNSTON, WALTER ROBERTSON
Initials: W R
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Lieutenant
Regiment/Service: Royal Field Artillery
Unit Text: "A" Bty. 112th Bde.
Age: 29
Date of Death: 06/09/1918
Additional information: Son of Mrs. Johnston, of Balgray, Dundee.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: IV. B. 3.
Cemetery: PERONNE COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
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Ken

Kenneth Morrison · Posted: Fri Nov 04, 2011 5:29 pm Post subject:

See Lost Memorials http://warmemscot.s4.bizhat.com/warmemscot-ftopic5963.html
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Ken

john burnett · Joined: 29 Jan 2007 Posts: 790 Location: Fife

Thanks for information Ken.
Here is latest from Mrs Aase Goldsmith.

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

Francis may be Gnr. 159989 9th Reserve Battery, R F A. who was medically discharged on 4 Feb 1919. He enlisted 10 Dec 1915.
No records survive.
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Jim

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

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dhubthaigh · Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2011 4:21 pm Post subject:

If Ian McCraw has failed to establish the whereabouts of this memorial then I fear it has been consigned to the 'skip'.
As I have mentioned before, from initial enquiries Dundee and Arbroath seem to have been very profligate with their memorials over the years.