The Scottish Military Research Group - Commemorations Project

Adam Brown · Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 12:23 am Post subject: Armadale, West Lothian

Armadale War memorial
Location: Off South Street
OS Ref: NS 938 683

You can easily miss this memorial if you don't know where to look. I did the last time I was in Armadale. If you head up South Street from Main Street it is in a gap in the buildings on your left hand side half way up the brae. It is not facing the road so it is easy to miss from this direction. If you take the next turning on your left and go round the back of a building you can park on some rough ground next to this site.

I'd be delighted to know why this site was chosen because I have to say on a wet January morning it was not at its best.

Saying that it was well looked after and there were many poppy wreaths at it's base.

Adam

Adam Brown · Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 12:26 am Post subject:

The light was poor today so the photographs of the name panels aren't that great. I'd be more than happy for better images to be posted. these will have to do today.

There are a lot of names.

Left hand panel

Right hand panel

Left

Right

Adam Brown · Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 12:29 am Post subject:

Tom Gordon from Armadale has set up a website about the Great War dead from Armadale and the surrounding area. It is here:

http://www.freewebs.com/ww1daleboys/index.htm

Adam

Adam Brown · Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 12:38 am Post subject:

One of the men listed under the 'Subsequent Campaigns' list I found on the Armed Forces memorial Roll of Honour

CLARK, Archibald Buchanan
Rank: Private
Service Number: 22355669
Regiment/Corps: KOSB
Place of Birth/Home Town: Armadale
Date of Birth: 14 November 1930
Age: 20
Date of Death: 22 May 1951
Cemetery Name: UN Memorial
Cemetery Address: Pusan, Korea
Grave 17:11:806

Unfortunately I couldn't find these two men:

Dougal B Smith

Alex white

spoons · Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 5:54 pm Post subject:

According to information that I found here

http://www.armadale.org.uk/rollofhonour.htm

and from the Korean Roll of Honour site, this was one of the men.

Number 22370442
Rank Pte
Name SMITH, Daniel
Unit A & SH att KOSB
Date of Death 04.11.51
Commemorated or Buried No Known Grave

If White was also killed in Korea as stated, there were 3 named White who died in Korea, 2 of whom had A as a second initial. Further research will be needed.

\Paul

anne park · Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2016 5:02 pm Post subject: William Banks GH

Banks William L/Cpl S/10738 9th Gordon Highlanders b Bathgate, Linlithgow e Bathgate Age 36 Died of Wounds F&F 20/08/1916 Husband of Julia Banks, of North Mossend, Armadale, West Lothian. Soldiers Wills 4 Pages. Heilly Station Cemetery, Mericourt-l'abbe Fr 0833 Plot III Row D Grave 41 AJ 18-09-16 P3: Armadale
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anne park · Posted: Sat May 05, 2018 7:13 am Post subject: James Christie GH

James Christie Pte 3/6153 8th/10th Gordon Highlanders b Beath, Fife e Edinburgh Age 23 Died of Wounds F&F 17/05/1918 Son of Mr. and Mrs. James Christie, of 13, E. Main St., Armadale, West Lothian. Soldiers Will 4 pages. Aubigny Communal Cemetery Extension Fr 0095 Plot IV Row K Grave 18 The Scotsman 29-06-18 P7: Armadale
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Mike Morley · Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2019 2:22 pm Post subject:

Name: SMART, WILLIAM
Initials: W
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Service Number: 7431
Regiment/Service: Scots Guards, 2nd Bn
Date of Death: 4/8/1918
Grave Reference: V B 13
Cemetery: Niederzwehren Cemetery, Kassel

Also named on Innerleithen and Peebles War Memorials and on the North British Railway Memorial, Edinburgh.

Kenneth Morrison · Posted: Sat Jun 03, 2023 11:07 am Post subject:

BENJAMIN REID

Named on the Tranent War Memorial in East Lothian as:

REID, BEN
Benjamin Reid – age 29 – Lance Corporal (13972) 1st Battalion, Scots Guards.
Benjamin was living with his wife and family in Armadale, West Lothian when he enlisted.
Born 1888 in Liberton, Edinburgh. Son of the late Beatrice Brown Reid (died 1906) and of Benjamin Reid of Tranent and of Armadale. Husband of Maggie (Wark) Reid of West Main Street, Armadale who he married in 1907 in Tranent.
Killed in Action on 14 October 1917 and buried in Bleuet Farm Cemetery, Belgium.
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Ken