The Scottish Military Research Group - Commemorations Project

Kenneth Morrison

Any of you Perthshire folk run across:
Alexander Reid – age 23 – Private (2875552) 1st Battalion, Gordon Highlanders.
He was killed on 5 June 1940 during the retreat of the 51st Highland Division to St. Valery.
The Army RoH shows him as born Wigtownshire and resident in Perthshire but there are no Next of Kin details on CWGC.
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Ken

spoons · Posted: Sat Nov 29, 2014 12:02 pm Post subject:

presumably the same man as on the Kirkinner memorial? Given that first names often run in families in these parts, have you considered the gravestone in Kirkinner commemorating the death of Alexander Reid in 1971 in Kirkinner cemetery? Possibly his father, in which case his mother would have been Christina Hopkins. Might be worth checking the Canadian connection, perhaps the Canadian service record shows a son.

\Paul

Kenneth Morrison · Posted: Sat Nov 29, 2014 2:03 pm Post subject:

Good thinking, Batman Very Happy

On his attestation papers Christina goes from "Friend" to wife - address Kirkinner
http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/military-heritage/first-world-war/first-world-war-1914-1918-cef/Pages/image.aspx?Image=597753a&URLjpg=http%3a%2f%2fdata2.archives.ca%2fcef%2fgpc014%2f597753a.gif&Ecopy=597753a

I'll have to dig into SPeople to see if they married here.
Thanks Paul
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Ken

spoons · Posted: Sat Nov 29, 2014 4:50 pm Post subject:

we have our moments Cool

Kenneth Morrison · Posted: Sun Nov 30, 2014 11:50 am Post subject:

It looks as though they married in Canada (I can't find a marriage in the UK)
What I did find is that Alexander was born in Udny, Aberdeenshire and was one of four brothers killed during the war.
Doesn't help with my original question Rolling Eyes

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Ken

Kenneth Morrison · Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2014 4:25 pm Post subject:

Their marriage is on the Ontario register but I haven't got a date.
Must have been 1915/16 - a nice person with Ancestry could look it up Wink

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tanyagar · Joined: 01 Sep 2013 Posts: 121 Location: France

married 25 August 1915 in Toronto York Ontario
both aged 23 born Scotland
Alexander son of William Reid & Mary Cruickshank
Christina daughter of John Hopkins & Annie McGregor

have downloaded the certificate - can send if you give me an email address...

Kenneth Morrison · Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2014 5:05 pm Post subject:

Thanks Tanya - have sent a PM.
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tanyagar · Joined: 01 Sep 2013 Posts: 121 Location: France

ok - certificate sent...