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IanA



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PostPosted: Sat Jan 27, 2007 6:39 pm    Post subject: Foulden, Berwickshire Reply with quote



The cross is inscribed: "Ye are Bought with a Price".


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PostPosted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 10:19 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

A transcription of the names:

1914-1919

DUNN , G F , Private , 1/5th Bn King's Own Scottish Borderers

GILCHRIST , Peter A , Private , King's Own Scottish Borderers

GILCHRIST , William , Private , 1st Bn Northumberland Fusiliers

HUNTER , David , Major , Special List

KEIR , T D , Private , 12th Bn Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders

OVENS , John , Private , New Zealand Pioneer Battalion

PURVES , Thomas J , Private , 1/4th Bn King's Own Scottish Borderers

REID , W L , Captain , 2nd Bn The Dorsetshire Regiment

REID , John S G , Lietenant DSC , Royal Naval Reserve (Submarines)

SPENCE , P , Private , 2nd Bn King's Own Scottish Borderers

THOMSON , P , Lance Corporal , 7/8th Bn Bn King's Own Scottish Borderers

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PostPosted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 10:31 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Here is Lt Reid RN DSCs CWGC details:

Name: REID, JOHN STEWART GILCHRIST
Initials: J S G
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Lieutenant
Regiment/Service: Royal Naval Reserve
Unit Text: H.M. Submarine L.55.
Age: 33
Date of Death: 09/06/1919
Awards: DSC
Additional information: Husband of Irene Helen Reid, of 50, Morpeth Mansions, London.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Screen Wall. "L.55" grave.
Cemetery: HASLAR ROYAL NAVAL CEMETERY

The location of his burial gives no clues to Lt Reid's death. At first glance you would assume he died of natural causes after the war. In fact he died on a patrol near Kronstadt in the baltic. The bodies of the crew of L55 were recovered by the Soviets in 1928 and returned for burial in the UK.

For more information, and another new memorial that Lt Reid is listed on go here:
[url]
http://www.memorials.inportsmouth.co.uk/churches/cathedral/baltic.htm[/url]

I believe L55 entered Soviet service but was lost again with it's Russian crew.

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PostPosted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 10:43 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hi Adam,

I believe your transcription contains an error re William Leonard Reid of the Dorsets. You have him as 'A.L. Reid'.

He was the son of the Rev. John Reid of Foulden Manse.

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PostPosted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 10:56 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ian

You are right. I will correct it. It was raining and blowing a gale when I transcribed it so I rushed it a bit.

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PostPosted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 12:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

UKNIWM Ref: 13315
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 04, 2013 1:55 am    Post subject: Capt. William Leonard Reid Reply with quote

IanA wrote:
Hi Adam,

I believe your transcription contains an error re William Leonard Reid of the Dorsets. You have him as 'A.L. Reid'.

He was the son of the Rev. John Reid of Foulden Manse.

Ian

Adam Brown wrote:
Ian

You are right. I will correct it. It was raining and blowing a gale when I transcribed it so I rushed it a bit.

Regards

Adam


(Glasgow Herald 21st April 1915)
"A telegram from the War Office has been received by the Rev. John Reid, minister of Foulden, Berwickshire, informing him of the death of his second son, Captain W.L. Reid, 2nd Dorsetshire Regiment. He was wounded at the battle of Shaiba, Persian Gulf, on the 14th inst. Captain Reid joined the 2nd Dorsets from Sandhurst in 1909 , and went to India in January 1910, became Lieutenant in January 1912, and was gazetted Captain in March last. He went with the Indian Expedition to Basra, where he acted as German interpreter to the Expeditionary Force. Recently his Colonel specially requested that he might be allowed to join his regiment again. Captain Reid was in his 25th year and has three brothers in the services."

CWGC
REID, WILLIAM LEONARD
Rank: Captain
Date of Death: 15/04/1915
Age: 24
Regiment/Service: Dorsetshire Regiment 2nd Bn.
Grave Reference: III. E. 21.
Cemetery: BASRA WAR CEMETERY
Additional Information: Son of the Rev. John Reid and Mrs. Martha Craig Gilchrist Reid, of Foulden Manse, Berwick-on-Tweed.

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PostPosted: Fri Apr 12, 2013 1:22 pm    Post subject: Foulden Reply with quote

The UKNIWM number given for Foulden is incorrect. This number brings up Chapel Carmel in Wales.
There does not seem to be a number listed for Foulden.
Sorry! Crying or Very sad
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 12, 2013 1:51 pm    Post subject: Foulden Reply with quote

Embarassed In the centre of the Foulden page the UKNIWM number is given correctly. It is wrong on the List of Memorials
Oh dear - very sorry! Confused
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 11, 2013 11:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The Scotsman, 24th August 1920

FOULDEN WAR MEMORIAL - Captain Balfour of Newton Don, Lord-Lieutenant of Berwickshire, unveiled on the village green on Sunday afternoon a memorial of handsome design to the men of Foulden who had fallen in the war. The cross, which is octagonal in shape, rises from three plinths, and on the topmost plinth the names of the eleven men from the village who have fallen are embossed in gilt on bronze plates.


The Scotsman, 31st August 1920

FOULDEN - A handsome war memorial cross has been erected on the green in front of Foulden village, Berwickshire. The monument is octagonal, and bearing in front of the shaft a raised Crusader's sword. Its total heigh with base and plinth is 15 feet. On the third base plinth is carved, "Ye are bought with a price", and on the plinth from which the shaft rises are three bronze plaques with gilt lettering, bearing as a central inscription "Who won immortal honour", and on the flanking plaques the names of the fallen parishioners, eleven of all, two of whom are sons of the parish minister. The cross was unveiled by Captain CB Balfour of Newton Don, Lord-Lieutenant of Berwickshire, and dedicated by the Ref Alfred McKeachie, minister of Chirnside.


The Buildings of Scotland - Borders, p291

War Memorial. A cross with coped octagonal shafts and an embossed sword, c1920. Pedestal inscribed with "Ye are Bought with a Price".
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 15, 2013 6:15 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Merseman wrote:
The Scotsman, 24th August 1920

FOULDEN WAR MEMORIAL..., and on the topmost plinth the names... are embossed in gilt on bronze plates.


Not any more I see.

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PostPosted: Fri Jul 23, 2021 1:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Pte. G.F. DUNN, 1/5th K.O.S.B. 1-11-17.
George Fortune Dunn – age 33 – Private (201499) 1/5th (Dumfries and Galloway) Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers.
George was coachman and gardener at West Foulden when he enlisted as Private (8594) and he joined his battalion in Egypt in February 1917. George served in Palestine where was wounded and later killed at Gaza.
Born 1884 in Foulden. Son of the late Euphemia (Fortune) Dunn (died 1915) and of George Dunn of West Foulden Mains and of Edington Hill. Husband of Alison (Spence) Dunn who he married in 1914 in Foulden.
Two of Alison's brothers, Peter and Robert, were killed in the war – see below.
Killed in Action on 1 November 1917 and buried in Gaza War Cemetery, Palestine.


Pte. P.A. GILCHRIST, 7/8th K.O.S.B. 29-7-19.
Peter Alexander Gilchrist – age 22 – Private (23275) 7th/8th Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers.
Peter was a stoker at the gas works in Berwick-on-Tweed when he enlisted in February 1916. He joined the 2nd KOSB in France in July 1916 but he was wounded two days later and after treatment in the 11th Stationary Hospital in Rouen he was evacuated to the Military Hospital in Belfast. Later he was moved to the King's Lancashire Hospital in Blackpool. He returned to France in April 1917 only to be wounded again. He was wounded for a third time in April 1918 and evacuated to Berrington War Hospital in Shrewsbury where he had to have his lower arm amputated. He was also diagnosed with tuberculosis and was transferred to the Edinburgh War Hospital at Bangour, West Lothian for a further operation and from where he was discharged from the army and awarded a Silver War Badge (B205782) in February 1919. His family had moved from Foulden to Mordington Mains in Berwickshire that year and Peter died there.
Born 1897 in Felkington, Berwick-on-Tweed, Northumberland. Son of Thomas and Agnes (Wallace) Gilchrist of Greenfield, Foulden, of Mordington Mains and of Seafield House, Spittal, Tweedmouth, Berwickshire.
Died on 29 July 1919 and buried in Foulden Parish Churchyard. (CWG)

and his brother

Pte. W. GILCHRIST, 1st N.F. 16-6-15.

William Gilchrist – age 22 – Private (16863) 1st Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers.
William was farming at Nunlands, Foulden when he enlisted in January 1915. He joined his battalion in Belgium in May but he was killed a month later at Bellewaarde near Ypres.
Born 1893 in Felkington, Berwick-on-Tweed, Northumberland. Son of Thomas and Agnes (Wallace) Gilchrist of Greenfield, Foulden, of Mordington Mains and of Seafield House, Spittal, Tweedmouth, Berwickshire.
Missing in Actiob on 16 June 1915 and named on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium.


Major D. HUNTER, A.G.S. 18-10-19.
David Hunter – age 44 – Major, Special List and Army Gymnastic Staff
David served his apprenticeship as a baker with his father in Jedburgh before enlisting in the King's Own Scottish Borderers in the 1890's. By 1901 he was a Staff Sergeant in the Army Gymnastic Staff serving at the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst. He left the army in 1914 after 21 years of service but rejoined at the outbreak of war and as Quarter Master Sergeant Instructor David Hunter he was commissioned in June 1916. As a Captain he landed in France in August 1917. His family were living in Foulden at the time and it was David's intention to take up farming after the war however he volunteered for service with the British Military Mission in South Russia against the Bolsheviks and went there in May 1919. He was Camp Commandant of the Physical Training Corps when he died of enteric fever at Taganrog.
Born 1875 in Jedburgh, Roxburghshire. Son of the late John and Helen Hunter of Old Bondgate, Jedburgh. Husband of Margaret Blair (Murray) Hunter of Foulden, of Ivy Place, Berwick and of 52 Osborne Road, Tweedmouth, Berwick-on-Tweed who he married in 1900 in Berwick.
Died on active service on 18 October 1919 and named on the Haidar Pasha Memorial, Istanbul, Turkey.
Also named on the Jedburgh War Memorial.
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