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David McNay
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Name Reid, Arthur Cleland
Rank: Corporal
Service No: 2984743
Regiment: 1 Battalion The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
Theatre of Combat or Operation: Italy
Award: Military Medal
Date of Announcement in London Gazette: 24 May 1945
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David McNay
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Not many details about this one, other than it is the burial place of an Ann Barton, wife of a Lt-Col James Anderson.
Can anyone shed some light on this one?
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David McNay
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Name: HAMILTON
Initials: A
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Gunner
Regiment/Service: Royal Garrison Artillery
Unit Text: 195th Heavy Bty.
Age: 36
Date of Death: 24/01/1919
Service No: 301052
Additional information: Son of Alexander Hamilton (farmer), of Westtown, Kilncadzow, Carluke, Lanarkshire; husband of Jane Anderson-Hamilton, of "Croftbank," Glebe St., Hamilton, Lanarkshire.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: E. 286.
Cemetery: KANTARA WAR MEMORIAL CEMETERY
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David McNay
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Name: GIRDWOOD, JAMES
Initials: J
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Corporal
Regiment/Service: Cameron Highlanders
Unit Text: "C" Coy. 6th Bn.
Age: 28
Date of Death: 16/07/1917
Service No: S/14362
Additional information: Son of James and Isabella S. Girdwood, of Co-operative Buildings, Overtown, Wishaw. Native of Carslake, Lanarkshire.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: I. E. 17.
Cemetery: DOZINGHEM MILITARY CEMETERY
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A Beattie
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Location: Huntly, Aberdeenshire.
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| Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2017 2:49 pm Post subject: Sgt. Major T. C. Suffill, late HLI |
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| David McNay wrote: | "In Loving Memory of Sgt. Major T C Suffill, late HLI, died 13th April 1926, aged 61 years."
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Death registration: 1926 Carluke, 629/ 37. Thomas Chandler Suffill (61).
The Glasgow Herald, Wednesday, April 14th., 1926. Death notice:-
"SUFFILL.- Suddenly, at Cherat, Carluke, on Tuesday, 13th inst., Thomas Chandler Suffill, in his 61st year, beloved husband of Annie Smythe.- Public funeral to-morrow (Thursday), at 3 p.m., to Wilton Cemetery; friends kindly accept this (only) intimation and invitation."
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Kenneth Morrison
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Location: Rockcliffe Dalbeattie
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Thomas Chandler Suffill was a School Board Officer when he enlisted in the Territorial 8th HLI in Carluke in June 1909. He became the Regimental Quartermaster Sergeant of the 5th Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) until he was demobbed in 1919.
His son John Henry Victor Suffill, Military Medal – age 22 – Sergeant (11600) 2nd Battalion, Highland Light Infantry died in the VAD Hospital in Haddington, East Lothian on 14 February 1919 and he is named on the Haddington War Memorial, on the St Mary's Church memorial in Haddington, on the Biggar War Memorial, on the Biggar High School memorial.
He was the husband of Agnes Paterson Miller (Fairley) Suffill, of "Williamville," Sidegate, Haddington who he married in 1917 in Haddington.
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