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Keptie



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PostPosted: Sat Dec 08, 2018 7:11 pm    Post subject: CORTACHY CHURCH Reply with quote

I hear from Major (Retd) Ronnie Proctor ,MBE the Black Watch that Recently the MEMUS war memorial was moved into CORTACHY CHURCH .
Two out of the three casualties died of the Flu . One in Edinburgh and the other in Cambridge . Neither had served abroad or been in action in the war .

cant see any entry for Memus or Cortachy church . This Cortachy church is beside the entrance gates of Cortachy Castle, home of the Earl of Airlie


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PostPosted: Sat Dec 08, 2018 10:07 pm    Post subject: WMR (ex UKNIWM) number Reply with quote

WMR 80671 has been raised as a shadow report, pending more information.
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PostPosted: Wed May 26, 2021 2:48 pm    Post subject: Re: CORTACHY CHURCH Reply with quote

Keptie wrote:
I hear from Major (Retd) Ronnie Proctor ,MBE the Black Watch that Recently the MEMUS war memorial was moved into CORTACHY CHURCH .
Two out of the three casualties died of the Flu . One in Edinburgh and the other in Cambridge . Neither had served abroad or been in action in the war .

cant see any entry for Memus or Cortachy church . This Cortachy church is beside the entrance gates of Cortachy Castle, home of the Earl of Airlie


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War Memorials Online report 261587 has a photograph of this memorial- there are, it turns out, 5 names-
It reads-
1914 "FOR KING AND COUNTRY" 1920/IN EVER LOVING MEMORY OF/
LIEUT JAMES H CRAIG 2/3RD SCOTTISH HORSE
l/C DAVID FINDLAY 1/6TH BLACK WATCH
PTE GEORGE HEBENTON 8TH BLACK WATCH
PTE DONALD MCLEAN 4TH OTAGO REGIMENT
PTE J D MOUGARD STEWART 4TH SEAFORTHS
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Kenneth Morrison



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PostPosted: Wed May 26, 2021 6:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

PRIVATE D FINDLAY
Service Number: S/25604
1st/6th Bn. Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)

Died 24 October 1918
Buried or commemorated at
THIANT COMMUNAL CEMETERY, France.


PRIVATE GEORGE HEBENTON
Service Number: 3/6332
8th Bn. Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)
Age 21 years old
Died 15 July 1916
Buried or commemorated at THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
Additional Info
Son of W. and Margaret Hebenton, of 106, Roods, Kirriemuir, Forfarshire.


PRIVATE DONALD McLEAN
Service Number: 63180
Wellington Regiment, N.Z.E.F.
Age 23 years old
Born at Shielhill, Kirriemuir.
Died 20 January 1918
Buried or commemorated at KIRRIEMUIR CEMETERY
Additional Info
Son of John and Betsy McLean, of Wellgreen, Northmuir, Kirriemuir.
Donald landed at Liverpool on 8 January 1918 but died of spinal meningitis in the Military Isolation Hospital at Tidworth in Wiltshire.


PRIVATE JAMES DAVID MOUGARD STEWART
Service Number: S/30110
4th Bn. Seaforth Highlanders
Age 18 years old
Died 16 December 1918
Buried or commemorated at KIRRIEMUIR CEMETERY
Additional Info
Son of Robert and Margaret Ramsay Stewart, of Shielhill, Kirriemuir.
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PostPosted: Thu May 27, 2021 1:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Can't trace Craig on CWGC nor SNWM but the Forfar Dispatch of 1 April 1920 has:

Mr James Herbert Craig, the youngest son of the respected minister of Memus, died last week in Bedford after four months' illness at the age of 22. Until recently he was a Lieutenant in the Scottish Horse. He was a bright and promising journalist, following in the footsteps of his well-known sister, Elizabeth Craig.

The family grave is here:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/132034265/james-herbert-craig

He was commissioned in the Yeomanry as Cadet James Herbert Craig to be 2nd Lt. 16th Sept. 1917. LG 5/10/1917 p.10401
Scottish Horse.—The undermentioned 2nd Lts. to be Lfs.: —
J. H. Craig. 16th Mar. 1919. LG 28/10/1919 p.13226
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Adam Brown
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PostPosted: Fri May 28, 2021 11:45 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

The dates on the memorial do say 1914-1920

I wonder what his illness was? Death in April, contracted in late 1919 or early 2020.

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