The Scottish Military Research Group - Commemorations Project

Keptie

This CLEPINGTON PARISH CHURCH, Dundee (now merged but still in use by the two congregations I think) has a MARBLE PLAQUE to the Casualties of the Great War :

Two sons of the minister The Rev Dr David Robertson are listed on the name Marble Plaque:

They are :

2nd Lieutenant James Whittinghame Robertson , 7th Bn Black Watch kia 23 April 1917 . He had attended St Andrews University and was a member of the St Andrews Uni OTC and was in 1914 on the outbreak of the war a Probationer Minister under his Uncle at Whittinghame in the Lothians . He served in the ranks of the Argylls before being commissioned in the 7th Black Watch . He was a twin and the family til around 1917 lived at the Manse in Broughty Ferry .

Lieutenant William Stewart Robertson , MC ; 10 Bn Black Watch att 4/5 Bn Black Watch kia 3 Sept 1916 . He was in 1914 a university student at St Andrews Uni and a cadet in their OTC . He was commissined 2nd Lieutenant into the 8 Bn Black Watch in Sept 1914 .

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pat

patrick w anderson

dalblair · Joined: 26 Aug 2010 Posts: 564 Location: coupar angus

Pat.
Any further names from this memorial?I`m wondering if this is original to the Church or was relocated from Hilltown UF in the 1970s?
Any help appreciated
Hugh

Adam Brown · Posted: Fri Jan 28, 2011 6:49 pm Post subject:

See here

http://warmemscot.s4.bizhat.com/viewtopic.php?t=3555

for the Whittenghame War Memorial where the REv Robertson is also listed.

Thanks

Adam

Keptie

I know that I did some research on the two sons of The Rev Dr D R Robertson who was minister at Clepington Parish Church and he resided at the Manse at Elmslea , 2 Seafield Road Broughty Ferry Angus . I think that The Rev Dr D R Robertson was the first minister at that Clepington Parish church and I think was still there when two of his sons were killed in action in WW1 . The sons were of course Lt William Stewart Robertson MC ,10 Black Watch attached to 4/5 Bn Black Watch and 2nd Lt James Whittinghame Robertson , Black Watch . They had an elder brother The Rev Charles Robertson .

I see on the Dundee War Memorials / Roll of honour website a number of other casualties listed on the Clepington Parish Church war memorial but they are in alphabetical order on that index .

Really it needs someone to find a keyholder to get access to the kirk and photograph the war memorial in Dundee

pat w anderson

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Keptie · Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2011 6:50 pm Post subject: clepington parish church Dundee

I see on the website that CLEPINGTON Parish church and FAIRMUIR Church have joined in the recent years and they are now

CLEPINGTON & FAIRMUIR churches Dundee Presbytery . The church parish use each church on alternative Sundays for services .

I had two articles published in the ABERDEEN & NE Scotland family history society journal regarding the two soldier sons of The Rev D R Robertson :

Journal No 75 May 2000 : article pages 42-47 called My Uncle : Lt P W Anderson , Black Watch , RFC & RAF and to the undying memory of the MEN from the North east of Scotland who fell in the Great War . ( Lt William Stewart Robertson M C was in 1914 a student at St Andrews University and also a cadet in the St Andrews Uni OTC and was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant into the 8 Black Watch on the outbreak of the Great War . His elder brother , 2nd Lt James Whittinghame Robertson had just a year before completed his years at St Andrews University and had during his student years also been a Cadet in the St Andrews Uni OTC before taking up a career in the Ministry serving under his Uncle The Rev Robertson at Whittinghame in the lothians . On the outbreak of the Great War he volunteered and served in the ranks of the Argylls before later being commissioned into the Black Watch . )

Journal No 77 : November 2000 : articles pages 37- 40 : Brave Men of the North East of Scotland : William Stewart Robertson MC, Black Watch and brave Men of the North East of Scotland in the Great War .

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dalblair · Joined: 26 Aug 2010 Posts: 564 Location: coupar angus

Blairgowrie Advertiser 8th November 1919

Two memorial windows in memory of the ninety members of the congregation who fell in the War were dedicated on Sunday by Rev C Robertson,Little Dunkeld,son of the first minister of Clepington Parish,,Rev Dr Robertson,two of whose sons were included in the Roll of Honour.