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Merseman
Joined: 07 Aug 2013 Posts: 339 Location: Duns, Berwickshire
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Posted: Tue Oct 15, 2013 4:56 pm Post subject: Eyemouth Parish Church - WWI Roll, WWI+WWII Cross |
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Eyemouth Old united with Eyemouth St John's on 5th October 1954.
Services ceased at the Old church in 1966 (it is now the local Museum).
So, quite unusually, the Free Church building is now the Parish Church.
These items were therefore moved up to the St John's (ex-Free) building.
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Merseman
Joined: 07 Aug 2013 Posts: 339 Location: Duns, Berwickshire
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Posted: Tue Oct 15, 2013 5:10 pm Post subject: |
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Eyemouth Parish Church (formerly St John's, previously Free and UF)
old Eyemouth Parish Church (now museum)
Transcription of WWI Casualties from Roll
All 14 are on Eyemouth civic memorial.
81 served of whom 14 died
Armstrong, John - Black Watch
Armstrong, Richard - Tyneside Scottish
Bolton, Thomas - KOSB
Collin, James - RNRT
Davidson, Walter - RND
Gillie, Robert - Seaforths
Lough, Thomas F - KOSB
Miller, Adam - AIF
Ritchie, David - KOSB
Swinney, James - RNRT
Thomson, Robert - SR
Wait, John - RND
Young, Andrew Carr - RNRT
Young, William - RNRT
Transcription of Cross
WWI - same 14 names as WWI Roll
WWII - all 6 are on Eyemouth civic memorial except (maybe) Gillespie
The Auld Kirk Eyemouth
IN SACRED
REMEMBRANCE
of those of this congregation who have fallen in the two World Wars
1914-1918
J Armstrong
R Armstrong
T Bolton
J Collin
W Davidson
R Gillie
TF Lough
A Miller
D Ritchie
J Swinney
R Thomson
J Wait
AC Young
W Young
1939-1945
W Anderson
PJ Gillespie
T Henderson
JF Hughes
JO Ramsay
A Stebbing |
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Kenneth Morrison
Joined: 29 Sep 2008 Posts: 7749 Location: Rockcliffe Dalbeattie
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Posted: Tue Oct 15, 2013 6:59 pm Post subject: |
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Note the service numbers and the Trawler. Cousins?
YOUNG, ANDREW CARR.
Rank:Deck Hand
Service No:5760DA.
Date of Death:15/02/1918
Age:28
Regiment/Service:Royal Naval Reserve
H.M. Drifter "Christina Craig."
Panel Reference31.
MemorialCHATHAM NAVAL MEMORIAL
Additional Information:
Son of John and Janet Young, of Masons Wynd, Eyemouth, Berwickshire.
YOUNG, WILLIAM.
Rank:Deck Hand
Service No:5762DA.
Date of Death:15/02/1918
Age:29
Regiment/Service:Royal Naval Reserve
H.M. Drifter "Christina Craig."
Panel Reference31.
MemorialCHATHAM NAVAL MEMORIAL
Additional Information:
Son of the late William and Margaret Hamilton Young, of Eyemouth; husband of Elizabeth Stevenson Young, of George St., Eyemouth, Berwickshire. _________________ Ken |
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stuartn
Joined: 13 Dec 2016 Posts: 2551
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Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2018 9:26 am Post subject: WMR (ex UKNIWM) number |
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WMR 53471 & 54117 respectively |
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Merseman
Joined: 07 Aug 2013 Posts: 339 Location: Duns, Berwickshire
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