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David McNay
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WATTERS, HUGH
Rank:Gunner
Service No:94567
Date of Death:20/01/1918
Age:25
Regiment/Service:Royal Field Artillery "C" Bty. 78th Bde.
Grave Reference: I. F. 16.
Cemetery:HERMIES HILL BRITISH CEMETERY
Additional Information:Son of Hugh and Jane Watters, of 77, Glebe St., Bellshill, Lanarkshire.
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David McNay
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WEMYSS, WILLIAM
Rank:Private
Service No:43447
Date of Death:23/10/1916
Age:21
Regiment/Service:Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) 9th Bn.
Grave Reference: XVII. Y. 6.
Cemetery:OVILLERS MILITARY CEMETERY
Additional Information:Son of John and Helen Wemyss, of East Muir Cottage, Main St., Uddingston, Lanarkshire. Born in Dumfriesshire.
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stuartn
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| David McNay wrote: | Sergeant Gordon Mitchell, RAF. Died 6th August 1944 aged 20 years.
Unable to locate on CWGC, no matching results for 1944 on Scotlandspeople.
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The GRO records for England and Wales show that he died in the Pontypool area of Wales |
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Kenneth Morrison
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Location: Rockcliffe Dalbeattie
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| David McNay wrote: | Name: YOUNG, GEORGE GRIMSON
Initials: G G
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Ordinary Signalman
Regiment/Service: Royal Navy
Unit Text: H.M.S. Copra
Age: 21
Date of Death: 14/02/1945
Service No: D/JX421545
Additional information: Son of William Kay Young and Helen Grimson Young; husband of Annie Donald McLaughlan Young, of Fallside, Uddingston.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Sec. O. Grave 3190.
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George is named on the North Berwick War Memorial in East Lothian as:
GEORGE G. YOUNG
George Grimson Young – age 21 – Ordinary Signalman (D/JX421545) H.M.S. Copra, Royal Navy.
HMS Copra was a Royal Navy shore base at Largs in Ayrshire for RN personnel attached to Combined Operations. George died of kidney disease in the Law Hospital in Carluke, Lanarkshire.
Born 1925 in North Berwick. Son of the late William Kay Young (died 1928 in Montreal, Canada) and Helen (Grimson) Young. Husband of Annie Donald (McLaughlan) Young of 37 Sanderson Avenue, Fallside, Uddingston who he married in 1944 in Bellshill, Lanarkshire.
Died on 14 February 1945 and buried in Bothwell Park Cemetery, Bellshill.
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