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PostPosted: Fri Nov 16, 2012 5:47 pm    Post subject: Kelso - St Mary's RC Church Reply with quote

Thanks to Margaret McMenemy for the photos.



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PostPosted: Sat Nov 17, 2012 10:16 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Surname PIERONI.
Firstname Richard
Service Number 158772
Date Death 18/09/1918
Decoration
Place of birth Carlisle Cumb
Other formerly 49304 R. Scots.
SNWM roll MACHINE GUN CORPS
Rank Pte
Theatre of death F.& F.

PIERONI, R
Rank:Private
Service No:158772
Date of Death:18/09/1918
Regiment/Service:Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)
Grave ReferenceII. F. 3.
CemeteryEPEHY WOOD FARM CEMETERY, EPEHY
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Southern Reporter 10/10/1918 p.4
Kelso. Pte. R. Pieroni, Machine Gun Corps, who is reported in letter from the Church of England chaplain to have been instantaneously killed on September 18 by a machine gun, was the only son of Mr and Mrs Peter Pieroni, 10 Horse Market, Kelso. He was only 20 years of age. The letter states that his section went over the top twenty strong, and eleven of them, including one officer, were killed.
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PostPosted: Sat Nov 17, 2012 10:39 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

7482 Bombr. M TAIT, MM RFA (Kelso) - The award of a"Bar" to his Military Medal was announced in the
London Gazette, Issue No. 30540. 22/2/1918 page 2412
which notes that his M.M. was Gazetted 18/10/17.

TAIT, MARK.
Rank:Corporal
Service No:7482
Date of Death:21/03/1918
Regiment/Service:Royal Field Artillery
"Y" 18th T.M. Bty.
Awards:M M.
Panel ReferencePanel 7 to 10.
MemorialPOZIERES MEMORIAL
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Surname TAIT.
Firstname Mark
Service Number 7482
Date Death 21/03/1918
Decoration M.M.
Place of birth Jedburgh
Other
SNWM roll ROYAL HORSE AND ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY
Rank Cpl
Theatre of death F.& F.
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 17, 2018 7:27 pm    Post subject: WMR (ex UKNIWM) number Reply with quote

WMR 78832
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 14, 2019 6:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Southern Reporter 31 July 1924.

KELSO ROMAN CATHOLICS. UNVEILING OF WAR MEMORIAL.
To the memory of the thirteen men of the Roman Catholic community in Kelso and Jedburgh who lost their lives in the Great War, a memorial was unveiled and dedicated in St Mary's Roman Catholic Church, Kelso, on Sunday evening. There was very large congregation and the Rev. Father Couttenier officiated, assisted by the Rev. T. Agius, S. J. of the Sacred Heart Church, Edinburgh, and the Rev. Dr. Hart, Berwick.
The memorial is in the form of carved wood statuette of the Saviour with arms outspread. It stands upon a wooden dias, and is the work of an Italian carver. On a marble mural tablet, which has still to be placed in position, are the names of the men commemorated.
The inscription reads —" 1914-1918/ Pray for the souls of the men of this parish who laid down their lives in the Great War: Pte. J. Boyle, Pte. J. Brannan, Pte. H. Culbertson, Pte. J. Doherty, Pte. H. Ferguson, Pte. J. Kennedy, Lce.-Cpl. P. Lynch, Driver H. MacLeod, Pte. R. Pieroni, Lce.-Cpl. Queenan M.M., Pte. James Queenan, Pte. P. Shiel, Cpl. M. Tait. R.I.P. To whose memory is dedicated the Sacred Heart Memorial in this church." Sir George B. Douglas, Bart, of Springwood Park, performed the unveiling ceremony. He said that upon the souls and consciences of those who forced it upon the world the late war would remain for long an indelible stain: for long, but would not say for ever, as he believed in the goodness of Almighty God and in the human duty of forgiveness. The war was a great evil, but out of that great evil brave men had brought great good. Our soldiers they marched side by side and shoulder to shoulder forgot all minor differences of religion and made the war the occasion of the greatest display of patriotism, courage, and devotion that the world had ever seen. In unfading remembrance of those who gave their lives for and for their country, and with deepest reverence to their memory this memorial was now unveiled. While the congregation remained upstanding, Bugler Rigg, K. 0.5.8., Berwick, sounded the " Last Post." Father Agius pronounced the " Blessing of the Statue," and addressed the congregation. In the course of his address Father Agius said had. seen many war memorials but he thought there could be no more appropriate memorial than this, a statue of our Lord Jesus Christ, to commemorate those glorious ones who lived and died so well. This was especially appropriate because it was a statue of still Living Personality who was urged by two great principles—duty and love—to self-sacrifice. Our Divine Lord was full of zeal and was ever ready to pour out that zeal for His fellow men. "Greater love hath no man than this, that he should lay down his life for his friends." That statue there to show the love, honour, and sacrifice of those who had died and exhibited the principle of duty, typical of the true love shown Christ Jesus our Lord. For those of them who were Catholics there was another reason why this statue was suitable to their memorial. During the war had been his privilege to minister the sacraments of God's Church to the soldiers and it had amazed him to see the eagerness with which men of all nations came to the sacraments, indifferent to temperament and nationality. This statue represented our Lord He was described in St Matthew's Gospel, when He told His disciples not to boast the part given to them, but rather that their names were written in the Book of Life. " Come unto Me all ye that labour and are heavy burdened and I will refresh you." This memorial was not merely local in its significance. Our faith told that our prayers, longings, and desires went far beyond mere local conditions, but that they went all who made the sacrifice of their lives. It made realise the great Catholic doctrine of the Church that we were one large human family with Christ linking us one to another, members of the Christian faith. It made realise that life did not end with death, but with the fulfilment of life death.-opened up a truer and grander life. This statue of Christ showed love, the love that the great Catholic Church stood for—love of all men. This statue, erected by the generosity of the people or this parish, to the memory those who died m their glorious faith, showed us that life must consist of duty and self-sacrifice. These things we must consider made life worth living. In this love did our fellowmen with fearless self-sacrifice lay down their lives, and in respecting their memory we fulfilled a duty which brought closer and which in time would be realised when were privileged to join them in the presence of our Divine Lord. Numerous floral tributes were afterwards laid around the base of the memorial. Special music and anthems were rendered by the choir under Mr John organist of the church.
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