The Scottish Military Research Group - Commemorations Project

Adam Brown · Last edited by Adam Brown on Sun Aug 12, 2007 11:10 pm; edited 1 time in total

I've managed to lose my images of this memorial

Here's a transcription:

In grateful memory of the men of and associated with this parish who died in the Great War 1914-1918
Their name liveth for evermore

And the names in alphabetical order, they are by unit on the memorial:

1914-1918

BAILLIE , John , Sergeant , 30th Bn Australian Imperial Force
BAIN , Alexander J , Lance Corporal , Machine Gun Corps
BREMNER , Alexander , Private , Seaforth Highlanders
CALDER , John , Corporal , 4th Bn Seaforth Highlanders
FINLAYSON , John , Lance Sergeant , 5th Bn Seaforth Highlanders
FRASER , George , Private , 8th Bn Scottish Rifles
GUNN , Donald , Private , Royal Highlanders (Black Watch)
INNES , William , Trooper , Royal Scots Greys
JACK , Harry , Private , 6th Bn Seaforth Highlanders
McALPIN , James S , 2nd Lieutenant , 7/8th Bn King's Own Scottish Borderers
MacBEATH , Henry , Sergeant , 2/1st Scottish Horse
MacDONALD , Alexander , Lance Corporal MM , 6th Bn Seaforth Highlanders
MacDONALD , Philip , Corporal , 1st Bn Seaforth Highlanders
MacDONALD , William , Corporal , 2nd Bn Seaforth Highlanders
MacKAY , Alexander , Private , 8th Bn Seaforth Highlanders
MacKAY , Angus , Private , 5th Bn Canadian Expeditionary Force
MacKAY , Benjamin , Regimental Sergeant Major , 2nd Regiment South African Infantry
MacKAY , John , Private , Seaforth Highlanders
MacKAY , John , Private , Army Service Corps
MacKAY , Neil , Private , New Zealand Expeditionary Force
MacKAY , Robert , Private , 2nd Bn Seaforth Highlanders
MacKENZIE , George , Private , 6th Bn Seaforth Highlanders
MacKENZIE , Kenneth , Sergeant , 25th Bn Canadian Expeditionary Force
MacKINTOSH , Robert , Private , New Zealand Expeditionary Force
MATHESON , John , Pipe Corporal , South African Infantry
MELVILLE , Charles , Regimental Sergeant Major , 5th Canadian Mounted Rifles
MUNRO , Donald , Corporal , Seaforth Highlanders
MURRAY , James , Lance Corporal , 5th Bn Seaforth Highlanders
MURRAY , John , Private , 7th Bn Seaforth Highlanders
MURRAY , Murdo M , Private , 5th Bn Cameron Highlanders
REID , Donald , Private , 1st Bn Cameron Highlanders
REID , William J , Private , Seaforth Highlanders
ROBSON , Walter , Sergeant , 14th Bn Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders
ROSS , Robert , Private , 2nd Bn Seaforth Highlanders
STEWART , John , Private , Seaforth Highlanders
SUTHERLAND , Alexander , Private , 8th Bn Seaforth Highlanders
SUTHERLAND , Hector , Private , 1st Bn Seaforth Highlanders
SUTHERLAND , John , Private , 8th Bn Scottish Rifles
SUTHERLAND , Tyson , Private , Royal Army Medical Corps
WILL , Alfred W , Captain , South Persia Rifles
WILLIAMSON , George , Private , Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders

1939-1945

GORDON , Colina , Driver , Auxilliary Territorial Service
MacDONALD , P , Sergeant , Royal Air Force
MacKAY , A , Signaller , Royal Corps of Signals
MacKAY , D , Sergeant , Royal Air Force
MATHESON , Donald , Private , 2/4th Australian Machine Gun Bn
MURRAY , D F , Driver , Royal Army Service Corps
MURRAY , McI S , Private , 2nd Bn Cameron Highlanders

Note Pte Matheson died serving in 2/4th Australian MG Bn in the second World War. So did Pte William Mackay of Golspie. It surely can be no coincidence that these two men from less than 10 miles apart in Sutherland died in the same Australian unit.

Adam

Adam Brown · Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2007 1:11 am Post subject:

Christine Stokes very kindly forwarded me this images of Rogart War memorial. Christine has her own website about Sutherland which is full of helpful information for genealogists and has lots of photos of gravestones including war graves.

The website is http://www.countysutherland.co.uk/

Adam

Adam Brown · Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 8:33 pm Post subject:

For more information on the names on this memorial please go to the appropriate list on this forum using the link below

First World War

Sutherland’s Great War Dead A-E

Sutherland’s Great War Dead F-L

Sutherland’s Great War Dead Mc / Mac

Sutherland’s Great War Dead M

Sutherland’s Great War Dead N-R

Sutherland’s Great War Dead S-Y

Second World War

Sutherland’s Second World War Dead A-L

Sutherland’s Second World War Dead Mc / Mac

Sutherland’s Second World War Dead M-Z

Post-War

Sutherland’s Post-1945 War Dead

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Adam Brown · Posted: Sun Dec 16, 2007 10:13 pm Post subject:

I've found and scanned one of my old photographs of Rogart War Memorial

Adam

spoons · Posted: Thu May 07, 2009 9:01 pm Post subject:

From the War Memorials Trust...........................

Repair works to Rogart war memorial received a grant of £200 in 1999 (WM2557).

\Paul

anne park · Posted: Sun Aug 02, 2015 9:13 am Post subject: Murdo M Murray

Murdo Morrison MURRAY,
Robert Gordon's College, Aberdeen: 1902 – 1905 [4367]
Rank: Private
Regiment: 5th Battalion, Cameron Highlanders (Lochiel's)
Biography: Born Rogart, Sutherland, 26 May1886, third son of Donald Murray, Mason, of Culdrain, Sutherland, and his wife Jessie. He entered RGC from Rogart Public School, aged 17; lived c/o 44 Thomson Street, Aberdeen; matriculated Aberdeen University 1905 and graduated M.A.,1908; he subsequently obtained a good appointment as Assistant Teacher at Leith. In pre‐war days he was a noted athlete, and a well‐known figure and competitor at all the Highland gatherings. When the war broke out Murray was one of those who early answered the call of their country. On 5 September 1914 he joined the 5th Cameron Highlanders (Lochiel's Camerons), and after training in England he went with the regiment to France. He and his brother went "over the top" on that terrible day at the battle of Loos, 25 September 1915; he was posted as "missing" and later on as "presumed killed".
Date of Death: 25 September 1915
Burial Details: Name recorded on the Loos Memorial, Panel 123, Column 1
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