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Lt S MacDonald, Morham, East Lothian

 
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john burnett



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PostPosted: Thu Nov 06, 2008 9:05 am    Post subject: Lt S MacDonald, Morham, East Lothian Reply with quote

Thanks to Caroline Gerard for the photos.
UKNIWM 53653
OS Map Ref NT550710. Situated below window within Morham Parish Church.


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Mike Morley



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PostPosted: Thu Dec 03, 2020 1:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Name: MACDONALD, SYDNEY
Initials: S
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Lieutenant
Regiment/Service: Royal Scots, 1st/4th Bn
Date of Death: 2/9/1918
Age: 31
Additional Information: Son of the late James Macdonald and Mrs. Macdonald, of Invergate, Row, Dumbartonshire; husband of Mary A. Macdonald (nee Macewen), of 5, Gillsland Rd., Edinburgh.
Grave Reference: I D 12
Cemetery: Queant Road Cemetery, Buissy.

Also named on the memorial in Morham village, and on Glasgow Academy, Kingarth, and Rhu War Memorials.
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Kenneth Morrison



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PostPosted: Wed Jan 25, 2023 4:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Sydney Macdonald – age 31 – Lieutenant, 1/4th Battalion (Queen's Edinburgh Rifles) Royal Scots.
Sydney was educated at Glasgow Academy and by 1911, aged 25, he was farming at Northrig, Morham. He was commissioned in the local Territorial 8th Royal Scots in June 1915 and was promoted in July 1917. He joined the 1/4th Royal Scots in France in April 1918.
Born 1886 in Helensburgh, Rhu, Dunbartonshire. Son of James Macdonald and Eliza Isabella (Campbell) Macdonald, of Invergate, Rhu. Husband of Mary Allan (Macewen) Macdonald of 9 Royal Terrace, Glasgow, of 5 Gillsland Road, Edinburgh and of Garrochty Farm, Kingarth, Bute who he married in 1911 in Hillhead, Glasgow.
Killed in Action on 2 September 1918 and buried in Queant Road Cemetery, Buissy, France.
Also named on the Morham Parish War Memorial, on the Kingarth and Rhu War Memorials and on the Glasgow Academy memorial.
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