The Scottish War Memorials Project

Adam Brown · Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 11:36 pm Post subject: NORTH QUEENSFERRY

North Queensferry
Location: Bottom of Ferryhill Road overlooking the Forth and Bridge.
OS Ref: NT 131 805
UKNIWM Ref No. 8514
Memorial Type: Obelisk

Adam

Adam Brown · Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2007 10:16 pm Post subject:

And the names alphabetically

1914-1918
AIKMAN , Wilfrid , Lieutenant
ANDERSON , Andrew , Corporal
ANDERSON , William , Private, 2nd Bn Bedfordshire Regiment
BALD , Robert , Lance Corporal, 2nd Bn King's Own Scottish Borderers
BEDELL-SIVRIGHT , David R , Sub-Lieutenant
CAMPBELL , John Mitchell
CARMICHAEL , David
CLARK , John , Private, 1st Bn Highland Light Infantry
COUTTS , Albert Julian , Private, 14th (F&FY) Bn Royal Highlanders
CRAM , William A , Private, Tyneside Scottish?
CUTHBERT , Henry K
DONALDSON , Thomas , Private, 16th Bn Highland Light Infantry
DOW , John Mitchell , Lance Corporal, 9th Bn Royal Highlanders
DOWIE , Robert , Private, 8th Bn Royal Highlanders
DOWIE , William , Private, 8th Bn Royal Highlanders
GILMOUR , James , Corporal, Royal Field Artillery?
KIRKHOPE , James Tait , Corporal, 13th Bn Royal Scots
LOCKHART , Archibald , Sapper, 12th Fd Coy Royal Engineers
McCULLOCH , George , Private, 1st Bn Royal Highlanders
MILL , William Guthrie , Private, 17th Bn Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders
MILLER , Robert
MONK , Fred
MORRIS , William
PEARCE , Herbert
RANKINE , John
RICHARDSON , James , Private, 5th Bn Royal Scots
ROBERTSON , Andrew , Private, 7th KOSB?
THOMSON , Robert

1939-1945
CRUICKSHANKS , Duncan F S , Petty Officer , Royal Navy
MITCHELL , George , Able Seaman, Royal Navy
DUFF , Ronald W J , Acting Leading Seaman?, Fleet Air Arm
MATHEWSON , William K , Captain, Fife and Forfar Yeomanry
CUNNINGHAM , Thomas , Private, Royal Scots
ROBINSON , Everet C , Private, Highland Light Infantry
McGREGOR , Francis , Flight Sergeant, Royal Air Force
McCALLUM , George K L , Sergeant, Royal Air Force
HARDY , David , Master Mariner, Merchant Navy
WATSON , James W , Fireman, Merchant Navy

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dhubthaigh · Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2007 11:53 am Post subject:

Name: BEDELL-SIVRIGHT, DAVID REVELL
Initials: D R
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Surgeon
Regiment/Service: Royal Navy
Unit Text: Medical Unit. R.N. Div.
Date of Death: 05/09/1915
Additional information: Former Scottish Rugby Football player.M.B., B.A.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: 7.
Memorial: PORTSMOUTH NAVAL MEMORIAL

dhubthaigh · Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2007 11:54 am Post subject:

Added to his reputation as the toughest rugby player of his day, David Bedell-Sivright also enjoyed the status of Scottish heavyweight boxing champion. And, outside the sporting arena, he saved lives as a doctor and naval surgeon during World War I, but inside it was more likely to add to the casualty toll than reduce it. "When I go on to that field I only see the ball," the Rugby Football Internationals' Roll of Honour quoted him as saying, "and should someone be in the road, that is his own lookout."

His boxing style was based on raw punching power rather than technique, and his reputation was such that no policeman felt like intervening when he blocked Princes Street for an hour while lying down on the tram rails to celebrate a famous victory. When he got up, he went to a cab rank and reportedly tackled a horse.

Bedell-Sivright's aggression always remained confined within the touchlines and ropes. He captained both Cambridge and Edinburgh Universities and made his Scotland debut aged just 19. By the time he captained the British touring team to Australia and New Zealand four years later, he had already won 12 caps and played in the Lions side that visited South Africa in 1903.

After his second tour, he spent a year stock-rearing in Australia before returning to medicine in the UK, having asked himself: "What was I, with an average amount of brains and rather more of money, doing? Simply prostituting the one in order to increase the other. It wasn't good enough."

Bedell-Sivright joined the Royal Navy in January 1915 and was posted to the Dardanelles two months later. He died at Gallipoli, of acute septicaemia, on Sept 5, aged 34.

Adam Brown · Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2009 10:17 am Post subject:

This man was a teacher in North Berwick and is listed on the North Berwick War Memorial, and the War Memorial of Abbey Church in North Berwick. He is also probably listed on the Edinburgh University Memorial.

DOW, JOHN MITCHELL
Initials: J M
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Lance Corporal
Regiment/Service: Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)
Unit Text: 9th Bn.
Age: 26
Date of Death: 29/04/1916
Service No: S/11185
Additional information: Son of Agnes Dow, of Battery Rd., North Queensferry, Fife, and William Dow (Stepfather). Teacher, North Berwick School, East Lothian. Graduate (M.A.), Edinburgh University.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: I. B. 7.
Cemetery: ST. MARY'S A.D.S. CEMETERY, HAISNES
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