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spoons
Joined: 09 Jan 2007 Posts: 4991 Location: St John's Town of Dalry
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Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2011 5:01 pm Post subject: Lt E A Mackintosh, Seaforths |
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Anyone know where this man might be commemorated?
Name: MACKINTOSH, EWART ALAN
Initials: E A
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Lieutenant
Regiment/Service: Seaforth Highlanders
Unit Text: 5th Bn.
Age: 24
Date of Death: 21/11/1917
Awards: M C
Additional information: A noted war poet, his poems "A Highland Regiment" and "War, The Liberator" were published in 1917 and 1918 respectively.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: I. A. 26.
Cemetery: ORIVAL WOOD CEMETERY, FLESQUIERES |
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Adam Brown Curator
Joined: 14 Dec 2006 Posts: 7312 Location: Edinburgh (From Sutherland)
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Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2011 12:40 pm Post subject: |
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Paul
I've tried to find him myself. I think he had few if any direct Scottish connections and as far as I know he's not listed on any Scottish war memorials.
As a Seaforth he will be listed in their Roll in the SNWM.
Regards
Adam |
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DelBoy
Joined: 12 Jul 2007 Posts: 4858 Location: The County of Angus
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Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2011 11:26 pm Post subject: |
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Done a wee search on scotlands-people and he doesn't seem to have been born in Scotland. |
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Jim
Joined: 30 May 2008 Posts: 195
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DerekR Moderator
Joined: 19 Dec 2006 Posts: 3013 Location: Hawick, Scotland
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Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2011 9:54 am Post subject: |
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As an aside, his poem Cha Till Maccruimein is inscribed on a plaque at the base of the Piper Memorial at Longueval.
THE pipes in the streets were playing bravely,
The marching lads went by
With merry hearts and voices singing
My friends marched out to die;
But I was hearing a lonely pibroch
Out of an older war,
"Farewell, farewell, farewell, MacCrimmon,
MacCrimmon comes no more." _________________
Time but th' impression stronger makes, As streams their channels deeper wear. |
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spoons
Joined: 09 Jan 2007 Posts: 4991 Location: St John's Town of Dalry
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Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2011 1:13 pm Post subject: |
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The report of his death from the 5th Seaforths war diary.
On the second day of the battle fell dear old E. A.
Mackintosh, the author of A Highland Regiment and
War, the Liberator, familiarly known as "Tosh," poet,
litterateur, and hail-fellow-well-met to one and all.
His happy smile and cheery personality will long be
remembered by us, while his topical songs often cheered
us on our way. Of a truly poetic temperament, he
laughed away all troubles, and helped to cheer even the
most lugubrious members of the battalion by his
humour and fun. And yet beneath it all he had a
very sympathetic heart. I remember at the time of the
raid for which he won the M.C., after he had helped to
carry in the wounded, how he broke down and wept
bitterly because after carrying one of his wounded men
for over 100 yards through the Boche trenches, with the
Boche following close behind, he had to abandon him
at the enemy front line, the man dying of his wounds
when they had hoisted him out of the trench. Kind
and cheerful under all circumstances, his men loved
him and would do anything for him. Now he rests in
his last long sleep among his men in a little cemetery
in Orival Wood, and the Division, and even his
country, are the poorer by his being cut off in the
springtime of his youth. |
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Shirley Sutherland
Joined: 02 Apr 2007 Posts: 5 Location: Golspie, Sutherland, Scotland
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Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2011 3:55 pm Post subject: Lt. E.A. Mackintosh |
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He is commemorated on the Brighton College War Memorial, St. Peters Memorial Book under Lieutenants and also on St. Marks Kemp Town. _________________ Remembering Willie & Jack Munro and William G. Mackay |
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anne park Our first ever 2000 poster
Joined: 25 Sep 2007 Posts: 21200 Location: Aberdeen
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Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2011 5:26 pm Post subject: Birth info and Probate of Will on Ancestry |
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Both of these do mention Brighton. Birth info and Probate of Will on Ancestry |
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Kenneth Morrison
Joined: 29 Sep 2008 Posts: 7760 Location: Rockcliffe Dalbeattie
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Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2011 10:26 am Post subject: |
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Ewart Alan Mackintosh - birth registered Brighton June Q 1893. _________________ Ken |
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