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PostPosted: Sat Mar 06, 2010 7:46 pm    Post subject: Douglas Ewart High School WW2 Reply with quote

Not listed on UKNIWM

Location in the present Douglas Ewart High School Building, Newton Stewart at OS Map Ref NX 407657.

This memorial is in 3 parts; an oak lectern (on the stage in the hall), a dedicated bible (in head teacher's office when I visited), and a framed list of names (currently in storage under the stage). The memorial was originally located in the previous premises of Douglas Ewart High School, Newton Stewart at OS Map Ref NX 409 657 (originally the Ewart High School). The Ewart was a boys school and after WW1 it merged with the Douglas (girls school) to become the Douglas Ewart High School. In June 1976 Douglas Ewart school moved up the road to its present premises and the memorial was moved at that time.

My thanks to Margaret Allan who arranged access and provided all the information. The framed list of names was produced by Jack Maltman, an art teacher at the school at the time.

Original location Douglas Ewart High School building (formerly Ewart High School)





Current location in Douglas Ewart High School




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PostPosted: Sat Mar 06, 2010 8:05 pm    Post subject: Re: Douglas Ewart High School WW2 Reply with quote

spoons wrote:
...and a framed list of names (currently in storage under the stage)


Paul

Well done on getting another school memorial. Are there any plans to display the framed Roll?

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PostPosted: Sat Mar 06, 2010 8:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I managed to speak to the Head Teacher and Deputy Head while I was there also Margaret Allan seems to have taken it upon herself to see if it can be put back on display. I think it was taken down when some building work was being done a couple of years ago and then never found its way back on the wall.

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JOHN FERRIES - NORTHUMBERLAND FUSILIERS.
John Ferries – age 20 – Fusilier (14864767) Royal Northumberland Fusiliers.
John died in a Military Hospital in Leicester.
Born 1925 in Bargrennan, Kirkcudbrightshire. Son of John and Mary (McKenna) Ferries of Barlunton, Kirkcowan.
Died on Service on 4 June 1946 and buried in Kirkcowan New Graveyard. (CWG)
Also named on the Kirkcowan Parish War Memorial.


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JOHN B. FINLAY - KING'S OWN SCOTTISH BORDERERS.
John Burns Finlay, Military Medal – age 24 – Private (3193651) 5th Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers.
John received his Military Medal from Field Marshall Montgomery. It was awarded for bravery at Flushing on Walcheren Island during the strongly contested assault landings on the island, at the mouth of the Scheldt, in November 1944. He was killed near the village of Voltage in Germany when a detachment from the 5th KOSB travelling in Kangaroo Armoured Personnel Carriers entered the village where they came under panzerfaust attack. John was buried there but was re-interred in Sage in August 1947.
Born 1919 in Bargrennan Parish, Kirkcudbrightshire. Son of Robert and Jean (Burns) Finlay of Blackcraig Farm, Balmaclellan, Kirkcudbrightshire.
Killed in Action on 8 April 1945 and buried in Sage War Cemetery, Germany.
Also named on the Balmaclellan Parish War Memorial.


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WILLIAM FRASER – RAF.
William Fraser – age 20 – Sergeant/Navigator (1559186) 7 Squadron, Bomber Command, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.
William was Gold Medalist at the High School in 1941. As a member of 906 Squadron, Air Training Corps, he joined the RAF from school in 1942 and began operations in 1943. He was navigator for a Pathfinder crew. William's Lancaster bomber took off from RAF Oakington in Cambridgeshire for a raid on Berlin. The aircraft crashed at Zuhlen near Rheinsberg to the north of Berlin. Two of the crew survived while the others were buried in Zuhlen. William was re-interred in Berlin Cemetery in June 1947.
Born c.1923 in Dumfries. (Source: SNWM but possibly born in Kirkmabreck)
Son of Rebecca Fraser of Creetown.
Killed in Action on 29 January 1944 and buried in Berlin 1939-1945 War Cemetery, Germany.
Also named on the Kirkmabreck Parish War Memorial in Creetown and on the RAF Association Memorial in Dumfries.


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GILBERT MCM. GALLOWAY - SEAFORTH HIGHLANDERS.
Gilbert McMillan Galloway – age 26 – Private (4620991) 2nd Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders.
Gilbert was educated in Port William, in Whithorn and at the Douglas Ewart High School before he served his apprenticeship in the Scotch trade in London. He had just set up his own business when war was declared and he enlisted in the 2nd/7th Duke of Wellington's Regiment (West Riding) before being posted to the Seaforths.
Born 1916 in Kirkinner, Wigtownshire. Son of the late John Galloway and of Jane Mary (McMillan) Dixon (formerly Galloway) of Monreith Home Farm, Port William. Husband of Violet Emily (Gray) Galloway of Thornhill, Dumfriesshire who he married in 1941 in Edmonton, London.
Killed in Action on 2 November 1942 and buried in El Alamein War Cemetery, Egypt.
Also named on the Mochrum Parish War Memorial in Port William.


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DAVID HYSLOP – RAF.
David Rae Hyslop – age 22 – Sergeant/Navigator/Bomber (1568361) 37 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.
In December 1943 37 Squadron, flying Wellington bombers, moved from North Africa to Italy and were based at the US Army Air Force airfield at Tortorella, Foggia from December 1943 until October 1945. The squadron converted to Liberators in December 1944. David and three others of the crew were killed when their aircraft crashed on take off to support an 8th Army offensive.
Born 1923 in Kirkcowan, Wigtownshire. Son of Robert and Elizabeth (Rae) Hyslop of Garlieston, Wigtownshire.
Killed in Action on 10 April 1945 and buried in Bari War Cemetery, Italy.
Also named on the Sorbie Parish War Memorial in Garlieston.


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ALEXANDER LYNCH – RAF.
Alexander Lynch, Distinguished Flying Medal – age 30 – Flight Sergeant/ Wireless operator (1001787) 83 Squadron, Bomber Command, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.
He was awarded a DFM for shooting down two night fighters while an air-gunner in a Hampden bomber of 144 Squadron. Alexander's Lancaster bomber took off from RAF Wyton in Cambridgeshire, as part of the Pathfinder Force, for a raid on Stuttgart but the aircraft crashed at Sogny-en-L'Angle in France. Alexander and an air-gunner, Sergeant K.W. Chipchase, were killed.
Born 1912 in Crailloch Croft, Portpatrick, Wigtownshire. Son of Robert and Elizabeth Pollock (McQuaide) Lynch of Stranraer.
Killed in Action on 11 March 1943 and buried in Sogny-en-L'angle Churchyard, Marne, France.


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JOHN MACEWAN - KING'S OWN SCOTTISH BORDERERS.
John William MacEwan – age 21 – Lieutenant (299451) King's Own Scottish Borderers.
Cadet (7955932) John William MacEwan was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Armoured Corps in October 1943. He was transferred to the KOSB in January 1944 but was killed a year later on the Netherlands/Germany border.
Born 1923 in Wigtown. Son of Neil Alexander MacEwan and of Grace (Lawson) MacEwan of 13 North Main Street, Wigtown.
Killed in Action on 5 January 1945 and buried in Brunssum War Cemetery, Limburg, Netherlands.
Also named on the Wigtown Burgh and Parish War Memorial.


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CHARLES K. MCGOWAN - ROYAL FLEET AUXILIARY.
Charles Kavanagh McGowan, Distinguished Service Cross – age 40 – Master: S.S. St. Sunniva (Aberdeen), Merchant Navy.
The St. Sunniva disappeared without trace whilst serving as rescue ship with a transatlantic convoy. It was presumed that her masts and rigging became encrusted with ice and she was lost with all hands. Charles had been awarded the DSC in 1942.
ADMIRALTY. Whitehall. 27th October, 1942.
For fortitude, seamanship and endurance in taking Merchantmen to North Russia through heavy seas and in the face of relentless attacks by enemy aircraft and submarines: The Distinguished Service Cross to Captain Charles Kavanagh McGowan, Master.
Born 1902 in Ballinagrane, Borris, Co. Carlow, Ireland.
Son of William and Margaret (Parker) McGowan of Barnbarroch, Whauphill, Wigtownshire.
In 1911 the family were at Merton Hall, Penninghame where William was a gamekeeper.
Husband of Isabella Helen (McBride) McGowan of Bishopton, Renfrewshire who he married in 1942 in Erskine, Renfrewshire.
Missing in Action/Lost at Sea on 22 January 1943 and named on the Tower Hill Memorial, London.
Also named on the Kirkinner Parish WW2 War Memorial in the Parish Church and on a WW2 Memorial plaque in Whauphill Village Hall.
Also remembered on the family grave in Kirkinner Cemetery with his older brother William Anthony McGowan, who was lost at sea on 30 November 1917.


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ROBERT MCGOWAN – RAF.
Robert MacGowan – age 19 – Sergeant/Flight Engineer (1823400) 50 Squadron, Bomber Command, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.
Robert's Lancaster bomber took off from RAF Skellingthorpe in Lincolnshire for a raid on Karlsruhe. The aircraft crashed near Hochfelden, Strasbourg, France. One of the air gunners survived. The crew were originally buried in the American Cemetery at Epinal but were re-interred at Choloy in February 1947.
Born 1925 in Creetown, Kirkmabreck, Kirkcudbrightshire. Son of William and Catherine Vernon (Brown) MacGowan of 24 King Street, Newton Stewart.
Killed in Action on 3 February 1945 and buried in Choloy War Cemetery, France.
Also named on the Penninghame Parish War Memorial in Newton Stewart.


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ROBERT MCKEAND – RAF.
Robert Allison McKeand – age 20 - Sergeant/Air Gunner (1823066) 115 Squadron, Bomber Command, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.
Robert's Lancaster bomber had taken off from RAF Witchford in Cambridgeshire to attack a fuel dump in the Foret de Luceaux. The aircraft crashed near Grand-Rullecourt. Three of the crew of seven were killed and are buried together in the village cemetery.
Born 1924 in Newton Stewart, Penninghame. Son of Alexander McClymont McKeand and of Sarah Hannah (Allison) McKeand of Sawmill Cottage, Penninghame.
Killed in Action on 9 August 1944 and buried in Grand-Rullecourt Communal Cemetery, Arras, France.
Also named on the Penninghame Parish War Memorial in Newton Stewart.


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DAVID H. MACTIER – RAF.
David Henry MacTier – age 34 – Sergeant/Wireless Operator/Air Gunner (1365036) 9 Squadron, Bomber Command, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.
David's Lancaster bomber took off from RAF Waddington, Lincolnshire for a raid on Duisberg. The aircraft was shot down by a night fighter and crashed at Kleinwijk, Netherlands. All of the crew were killed and are buried together.
Born 1909 in Port William, Mochrum, Wigtownshire. Son of Robert and Euphemia (Douglas) MacTier of Port William.
Killed in Action on 9 April 1943 and buried in Uden War Cemetery, Netherlands.
Also named on the Mochrum Parish War Memorial in Port William.


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JOHN H. MALET-WARDEN – RAF.
John Hamish Malet-Warden – age 19 – Sergeant/Pilot (989146) 78 Squadron, Bomber Command, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.
John Hamish had come to Wigtownshire in the 1930's with his mother and other siblings after the breakdown of his parents' marriage. They lived in a house on the Galloway House Estate in Garlieston - at that time owned by Lady Forteviot, a former school friend of John Hamish's mother. He attended the High School and was a member of the Air Cadets.
John Hamish's Whitley bomber had taken off from RAF Middleton St. George near Darlington (now Teesside International Airport) The aircraft crashed at Buggenum (Limburg) near Roermond in the Netherlands and the crew are buried together in Jonkerbos.
Born 1921 in Edinburgh. Son of Captain Edward Cecil Malet-Warden, R.N. and of Agnes Helen (Pennycuick) Malet-Warden.
Killed in Action on 17 August 1941 and buried in Jonkerbos War Cemetery, Netherlands.
Also named on the Challoch All Saints Episcopal Church Memorial and on the Sorbie Parish War Memorial in Garlieston.


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