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Ian M
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 Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 4:51 pm Post subject: Jedburgh - Lieut. Ronald Patrick Speirs, 93rd A. & S. H. |
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Would be intested to know which Battalion.
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apanderson
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| Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 5:12 pm Post subject: |
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Name: SPEIRS, RONALD PATRICK
Initials: R P
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Second Lieutenant
Regiment/Service: Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
Unit Text: 2nd Bn.
Age: 20
Date of Death: 23/04/1917
Additional information: Son of the late P. A. Speirs, of Bonjedward, Jedburgh, Roxburghshire.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Bay 9.
Memorial: ARRAS MEMORIAL
Surname SPEIRS
Firstname Ronald Patrick
Date Death 23/04/1917
SNWM roll THE ARGYLL AND SUTHERLAND HIGHLANDERS
Rank 2/Lt
Theatre of death Unknown |
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Adam Brown
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| Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2008 9:45 am Post subject: |
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If you see a post-1881 Argyll refered to as a 93rd he will be in the 2nd Bn. If it's 91st then he's 1st Bn.
Like the Argylls, The Highland Light Infantry still used 71st and 74th for 1st and 2nd Bns up until 1947 (when the 2nd Bns of the Scottish Regiments were amalgamated into the 1st Bn.)
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