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PostPosted: Mon Feb 08, 2016 3:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The Sarel Brothers are also listed on St. James The Great (Episcopal) Church, Dollar, see:

http://warmemscot.s4.bizhat.com/viewtopic.php?t=5783

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PostPosted: Tue Feb 16, 2016 3:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

From WW2 list - ROBERTSON Robert Unable to ID.

Robert McCraith Robertson – age 21 – Lieutenant (261977) 2nd Lothians and Border Horse, Royal Armoured Corps.
Robert was educated at Dumfries Academy and at Dollar Academy, Clackmannanshire before he joined R. L. Robertson & Company. He volunteered for service in 1941 and was commissioned in the RAC in January 1943, serving in North Africa before moving to Italy. (Source: D&G Standard 27/5/1944 p.4 and London Gazette 5/3/1943 p.1124)
Born 1922 in Dumfries. Son of Robert Lumsden Robertson and Mary Elizabeth (McCraith) Robertson of Struanlea, Dumfries.
(Source: CWGC, D&G Standard 27/5/1944 p.4 and family grave in Dumfries Cemetery)
http://scottishwargraves.phpbbweb.com/scottishwargraves-ftopic621-30.html
Killed in Action – 17 May 1944.
Commonwealth War Grave – Cassino War Cemetery, Italy.
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 06, 2017 9:45 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

CAMPBELL Robert Charles Cowburn Captain King's Own Scottish Borderers.

Robert Charles Cowburn Campbell (“Tammy”) – age 26 – Captain, 1st Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers.
Robert was educated at Dollar Academy, Edinburgh Academy and King's College Cambridge before he joined the Burma Trading Company in 1910. He was home on leave in August 1914 and he gained a commission in the KOSB in September. He was promoted to Lieutenant in November and to Captain in February 1915. Robert was attached to the 2nd Highland Light Infantry from December 1914 until March 1915 before he moved to the 2nd KOSB. He had served at Givenchy, Nueve Chapelle and at Ypres where he was wounded on 23 April. He was evacuated to the Queen Alexandra's Hospital for Officers at Millfield Lane, Highgate where he died.
Born 1889 in Shillong, Assam, India. (Source: De Ruvigny's Roll of Honour)
Son of Colonel Sir Robert Neil Campbell CB, CIE, IMS, (retired) and Ethel (Bensley) Campbell of Elsieshields Tower, Lochmaben.
Died of Wounds on 19 May 1915 and buried in Brompton Cemetery, London.
Also named, together with his brother George Edward Forman Campbell – age 21 – Lieutenant, 2nd Battalion, 10th Gurkha Rifles, on the Edinburgh Academy memorial and on the Lochmaben War Memorial in Dumfriesshire (but named on the latter in error as Capt. R.N. CAMPBELL, K.O.S.B.)

Their father, Colonel Sir Robert Neil Campbell was born in 1854 and he was educated at the Edinburgh Institution and Edinburgh University from where he graduated M.B. C.M. in 1876. He became a surgeon in the Indian Army and was Inspector-General Civil Hospitals and Prisons, Assam from 1912 until he retired in April 1914. During WW1 he was Officer Commanding Pavilion Military Hospital, and York Place Hospital in Brighton. He died in 1928 at Lahore.
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 09, 2017 3:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

FARISH Samuel Lieutenant (Captain) King's Own Scottish Borderers.

Samuel Farish – age 21 – Captain, 1st Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers.
Samuel was educated at Dollar Academy, Clackmannanshire before he joined a Mercantile House in Glasgow and where he enrolled in the Officer Training Corps in 1912. He enlisted in August 1914 and was commissioned in the KOSB in October. He landed with the 10th (Irish) Division at Gallipoli in August 1915 and served with the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers until October 1915 when he moved with the Division to Salonica in Northern Greece. He was wounded at the battle of Kosturino Ridge, Tartali, Serbia on 8 December 1915 while his battalion was covering the withdrawal of the Serbian army and he was evacuated home. He rejoined his old regiment but was wounded at Ypres in August 1916 and treated at the 14th General Hospital at Wimereux, France before being evacuated to the UK. He was able to return to his battalion in February 1917.
Born 1895 in Kirkmichael, Dumfriesshire. Son of Samuel Thomas and Annie (Rimmer) Farish, of Maxwell Bank Rotchells Park, Maxwelltown, Kirkcudbrightshire and of Todhillmuir, Lochmaben.
Missing in Action on 24 April 1917 and named on the Arras Memorial, France.
Also named on an individual memorial in Kirkmichael Parish Church in Parkgate Village and on the Lochmaben War Memorial.
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 11, 2018 5:56 pm    Post subject: WMR (ex UKNIWM) number Reply with quote

WMR 5771
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 11, 2018 7:17 pm    Post subject: WMR (ex UKNIWM) number Reply with quote

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PostPosted: Sat Jan 18, 2020 11:44 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Name: COUSINS, ISABELLA DINGWALL
Initials: ID
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Nurse
Regiment/Service: Voluntary Aid Detachment, Edinburgh War Hospital, Bangour
Date of Death: 16/5/1918
Age: 25
Additional Information: Daughter of John and Christina Dingwall Cousins of Dollar, Clackmannanshire.
Grave Reference: Grave 225
Cemetery: Dollar Cemetery.
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 26, 2020 10:53 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Name: RITCHIE, BLYTH
Initials: B
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Lieutenant (A)
Regiment/Service: Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, HMS Heron
Awards: DSC and Bar
Date of Death: 12/7/1944
Age: 22
Additional Information: Son of James and Elizabeth Blyth Ritchie, of Uddingston, Lanarkshire.
Grave Reference: Column 3
Cemetery: Glasgow Crematorium.

Also named on Hamilton Grammar School Memorial and Trinity Parish Church, Uddingston Memorial.
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PostPosted: Sat Nov 28, 2020 3:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Name: GRIEVE, WILLIAM ROBERTSON
Initials: WR
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Lieutenant
Regiment/Service: Highland Light Infantry, 7th Bn
Date of Death: 28/4/1917
Age: 31
Additional Information: Son of William Robertson Grieve and Ann Grieve; husband of Dorothy Grieve, of 201, Nithsdale Rd., Glasgow.
Panel Reference: Bay 8
Memorial: Arras Memorial.

Also named on Glasgow Academy War Memorial and in the University of Glasgow Memorial Chapel.

A short biographical note about Lt Grieve can be seen on the University of Glasgow Role of Honour: https://www.universitystory.gla.ac.uk/ww1-biography/?id=1168
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PostPosted: Sat Dec 19, 2020 7:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Name: WATERSTON, JOHN KNOX
Initials: JK
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Service Number: S/41020
Regiment/Service: Cameron Highlanders, 5th Bn
Date of Death: 20/9/1917
Age: 20
Additional Information: Son of John Waterston, of Whinfell, Kilmacolm, Renfrewshire.
Panel Reference: Panel 136 to 138
Memorial: Tyne Cot Memorial.
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Name: WATSON, DAVID HENRY
Initials: DH
Nationality: New Zealand
Rank: Lance Corporal
Service Number: 8/2172
Regiment/Service: Otago Regiment, NZEF, 2nd Bn
Date of Death: 1/10/1916
Age: 32
Additional Information: Son of Mrs. David Henry Watson, of Strathadon, Troon, Ayrshire, and the late David Henry Watson, of Glasgow.
Memorial: Caterpillar Valley (New Zealand) Memorial.

And his brother:

Name: WATSON, LAURENCE STEWART
Initials: LS
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Lieutenant
Regiment/Service: Cameronians (Scottish Rifles), 8th Bn
Date of Death: 29/7/1918
Age: 21
Additional Information: Son of David Henty and Maria Watson, of Strathaden, Troon, Ayrshire.
Grave Reference: X D 10
Cemetery: Raperie British Cemetery, Villemontoire.

Both are also named on Troon and Troon Parish Church War Memorials.
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Name: CURSLEY, HAROLD D.
Initials: H D
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Lance Corporal
Service No: S/14506
Regiment/Service: Cameron Highlanders, 5th Bn.
Date of Death: 25/09/1915
Age: 21
Additional information: Son of James Frederick and Helen Eliza Cursley, of "Bourneville", 77, Newlands Rd, Newlands, Glasgow.
Panel Reference: Panel 119 to 124.
Memorial: Loos Memorial.

Also named on the War Memorials at Albert Road Academy, Glasgow High School, St Margaret's Scottish Episcopal Church and Whitecraigs Golf Club.
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Name: FINLINSON, ARTHUR BOUCHER
Initials: A B
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Service Number: 15281
Regiment/Service: Highland Light Infantry, 2nd Bn.
Date of Death: 13/11/1916
Age: 19
Additional information: Son of Boucher and Marion Finlinson, of "Lorton," Otterburn Drive, Giffnock, Renfrewshire.
Grave Reference: B. 92.
Cemetery: Redan Ridge Cemetery No 2, Beaumont-Hamel.

Also named on memorials at Giffnock, Giffnock South Church, Albert Road Academy, Glasgow High School War Memorials.
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Name: POLLOCK, JAMES TEMPLE
Initials: JT
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: 2nd Corporal
Service Number: 128017
Regiment/Service: Royal Engineers, No. 3 Special Coy.
Date of Death: 20/7/1917
Age: 19
Additional Information: Son of Robert Hugh and Mary Barr Pollock, of 6, Rua dos Clerigos, Oporto, Portugal. Educated at Oporto British School, also at Glasgow High School and Dollar Academy. Enlisted in the Highland Light Inf. in 1915.
Panel Reference: Panel 9
Memorial: Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial.

Also named on Glasgow High School War Memorial.
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