The Scottish Military Research Group - Commemorations Project

DerekR · Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2008 5:40 pm Post subject:

Name: McARTHUR, ADAM
Initials: A
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Cameron Highlanders
Unit Text: 2nd Bn.
Age: 26
Date of Death: 04/05/1915
Service No: 8466
Additional information: Son of John McArthur and Christina Arnott McArthur, of Burnside Cottage, Cairneyhill, Dunfermline.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: A. 9. 1.
Cemetery: ST. SEVER CEMETERY, ROUEN
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A Morris · Joined: 19 May 2010 Posts: 860 Location: Netherlands

Hi,

I believe that Pvt Charles Lockhart commemorated on this memorial is my Great Uncle. If any members would have any information on him I would love to hear. He is commemorated on the Menen Gate in Ieper.

Rgds,
Alex

DelBoy · Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2012 2:30 pm Post subject: Pte. Charles Lockhart

Hi Alex,

I found this small extract in the Glasgow Herald about him.

(Glasgow Herald 25th December 1914)
"Information has reached Cairneyhill that Private Charles Lockhart, Gordon Highlanders, was killed in action on October 28. He was 23 years of age, was unmarried, and had been 2 and a half years in the Army. His mother had had no letters from him since he went to the front."

CWGC
LOCKHART, CHARLES
Rank: Private
Service No: 963
Date of Death: 29/10/1914
Age: 23
Regiment/Service: Gordon Highlanders 2nd Bn.
Panel Reference: Panel 38.
Memorial: YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL
Additional Information: Son of Mrs. A. S. Lockhart, of 60, Baldridgeburn, Dunfermline, Fife.

SNWM
Surname: LOCKHART
Firstname: Charles
Service Number: 963
Date Death: 29/10/1914
Place of birth: South Queensferry
Other: 2nd Bn.
SNWM roll: THE GORDON HIGHLANDERS
Rank: Pte

A Morris · Joined: 19 May 2010 Posts: 860 Location: Netherlands

Name: George Anderson McDonald
Rank: 2nd Lt
Regiment: Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
Date of Death: 18th August 1917
Commemorated: Thiepval Memorial
Age: 19
Son of James and Margaret McDonald, of Pleasance, Cairneyhill, Dunfermline
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Remembering my Great Uncle - 963 Private Charles Lockhart 2nd Btn Gordon Highlanders - KIA 29/10/1914

A Morris · Joined: 19 May 2010 Posts: 860 Location: Netherlands

Name: James M Moir
Rank: 2nd Lt
Regiment: Black Watch
Date of Death: 25th September 1915
Buried: Philosophe British Cemetery, Mazingarbe
Age: 25
Son of the late Rev. John Moir, B.D. Born at Cairneyhill, Fife
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Remembering my Great Uncle - 963 Private Charles Lockhart 2nd Btn Gordon Highlanders - KIA 29/10/1914

A Morris · Joined: 19 May 2010 Posts: 860 Location: Netherlands

Name: Walter Forbes Hutton
Rank: 2nd Lt
Regiment: Black Watch
Date of Death: 14th July 1916
Commemorated: Thiepval Memorial
Age: 20
Son of Mr and Mrs Hutton, of 58 Brucefield Avenue, Dunfermline, Fife
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Remembering my Great Uncle - 963 Private Charles Lockhart 2nd Btn Gordon Highlanders - KIA 29/10/1914

A Morris · Joined: 19 May 2010 Posts: 860 Location: Netherlands

Name: John Erskine VC
Rank: Sergeant
Service Number: 200476
Regiment: D Coy, 5th/6th Battalion Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)
Date of Death: 14th April 1917
Commemorated: Arras Memorial
Age: 23
Son of the late William Erskine, of Dunfermline, and of Mrs. Elizabeth Erskine, of 1, East Savile Rd., Edinburgh. Brother of L/Cpl W Erskine HLI (also commemorated on the Memorial)
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Remembering my Great Uncle - 963 Private Charles Lockhart 2nd Btn Gordon Highlanders - KIA 29/10/1914

A Morris · Joined: 19 May 2010 Posts: 860 Location: Netherlands

Name: Robert Adamson Banks
Rank: Private
Service Number: 43241
Regiment: 12th Battalion Royal Scots
Date of Death: 21st October 1916
Commemorated: Thiepval Memorial
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Remembering my Great Uncle - 963 Private Charles Lockhart 2nd Btn Gordon Highlanders - KIA 29/10/1914

A Morris · Joined: 19 May 2010 Posts: 860 Location: Netherlands

Name: James Cook
Rank: Private
Service Number: 1529
Regiment: 2nd Battalion Black Watch
Date of Death: 25th October 1915
Commemorated: Loos Memorial
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Remembering my Great Uncle - 963 Private Charles Lockhart 2nd Btn Gordon Highlanders - KIA 29/10/1914

A Morris · Joined: 19 May 2010 Posts: 860 Location: Netherlands

Name: John Donald
Rank: Private
Service Number: S/9141
Regiment: 2nd Battalion Gordon Highlanders
Date of Death: 6th September 1916
Commemorated: Thiepval Memorial
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Remembering my Great Uncle - 963 Private Charles Lockhart 2nd Btn Gordon Highlanders - KIA 29/10/1914

A Morris · Joined: 19 May 2010 Posts: 860 Location: Netherlands

Name: Alexander Gardner
Rank: Private
Regiment: 107th Infantry Regiment, 27th Division, AEF
Date of Death: 29th September 1918
Buried: Somme American Cemetery
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Remembering my Great Uncle - 963 Private Charles Lockhart 2nd Btn Gordon Highlanders - KIA 29/10/1914

A Morris · Joined: 19 May 2010 Posts: 860 Location: Netherlands

Name: Arthur Glendinning
Rank: Private
Service Number: S/9035
Regiment: 2nd Battalion Gordon Highlanders
Date of Death: 25th September 1915
Commemorated: Loos Memorial
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Remembering my Great Uncle - 963 Private Charles Lockhart 2nd Btn Gordon Highlanders - KIA 29/10/1914

A Morris · Joined: 19 May 2010 Posts: 860 Location: Netherlands

Name: Michael Kirk
Rank: Private
Service Number: S/41143
Regiment: 6th Battalion Black Watch
Date of Death: 10th April 1918
Commemorated: Loos Memorial
Age: 19
Son Michael Kirk, of Cooks’s Buildings, Cairneyhill, Dunfermline
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Remembering my Great Uncle - 963 Private Charles Lockhart 2nd Btn Gordon Highlanders - KIA 29/10/1914