The Scottish Military Research Group - Commemorations Project

Adam Brown · Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 7:46 pm Post subject: Sutherland's Post-1945 War Dead

WARS SINCE 1945

I have updated this list with a couple details from the Armed Forces Memorial Project online Roll of Honour. 21st June 2007

THE KOREAN WAR 1950-1953

MacLEOD, Neil Gunn
Rank: Private
Number: 22573292
Unit: The Black Watch attached 1st Battalion, King’s Own Scottish Borderers
Died: Killed in action 4.8.1952 Korea
Age: 19
Parent: Neil Gunn (Shepherd), Edderton.
Born: Lairg, 17th May 1933
Home: Mid Fearn, Edderton
Job: Apprentice Joiner with A. McAughtrie & Son, Bonar Bridge before National Service
Notes: Formerly Seaforth Highlanders
Name added to Edderton War Memorial in October 2001
Buried: UN Cemetery, Pusan, Korea
Memorials: Listed on the Edderton War Memorial
Recorded in The Black Watch Roll of Honour, The Scottish National War Memorial
Recorded in the Armed Forces Memorial Roll-of-Honour

BAOR, GERMANY

SUTHERLAND, James Farquhar Munro
Rank: Lieutenant
Number: 422819
Unit: 1st Bn Seaforth Highlanders
Died: Accidentally 28th August 1957 Germany
Age: 26
Parents: William Munro Sutherland (d 1946) and Margaret Mackay Sutherland of Dornoch
Born: 08 May 1931?
Home: Dornoch
Buried: Germany
Commemorated on the family headstone in Dornoch East Cemetery.
Included on Armed Forces Post-War Roll of Honour

THE BORNEO CONFRONTATION 1965-1966

MacLEOD, Archibald Walker Crosthwaite
Rank: Private
Number: 23549282
Unit: The Parachute Regiment
Died: Died 16.5.1965 Sarawak
Born: Lairg, 6th July 1942
Memorials: Recorded in The Scottish National War Memorial, Edinburgh Castle
Listed on the Kinross War Memorial
Recorded in the Armed Forces Memorial Roll-of-Honour

THE FALKLANDS CONFLICT 1982

REYNOLDS, James ‘Jim’ Boyle Curran DCM
Rank: Guardsman
Number: 24549305
Unit: 2nd Bn Scots Guards
Died: Killed in action 14.6.1982 Tumbledown Mountain, East Falkland Island
Age: 19
Born: Irvine, 8th February 1963
Home: Renfrew
Job: Regular Soldier
Notes: Memorial erected by one of his officers, 2nd Lt. Alastair Bruce
Medals awarded: Distinguished Conduct Medal, South Atlantic Medal
DCM Citation: On the night of 13th/14th June 1982, on the Island of East Falkland, the 2nd Battalion Scots Guards attacked well entrenched enemy positions on the craggy ridge feature of Tumbledown Mountain, seven kilometres to the west of Port Stanley.
During the attack, Guardsman Reynold's Platoon came under fire from a group of enemy snipers. His Platoon Sergeant was killed instantly. A confused situation developed and his Section became separated. Guardsman Reynolds immediately took command. Having located the enemy snipers he silenced several of them himself.
That done and showing a complete disregard for his own safety, he moved forward to render first aid to a wounded comrade. He himself was wounded in the hand by enemy sniper fire, but continued to aid his colleague. Whilst doing so, he was killed by enemy mortar fire.
Buried: Knadgerhill Cemetery, Bank Street, Irvine
Memorials: Commemorated by the Falklands Memorial Cairn, Sallachy, Lairg
Listed on the South Atlantic Task Force War Memorial, San Carlos War Cemetery, East Falkland
Listed on the Liberation Memorial, Stanley, East Falkland
Listed on the Scots Guards War Memorial, Tumbledown Mountain, East Falkland
Listed on the Memorial Wall, Falkland Islands Memorial Chapel, Pangbourne College
Recorded in the Roll of Honour, Falkland Islands Memorial Chapel, Pangbourne College
Recorded in the Scots Guards Roll of Honour, The Scottish National War Memorial
Recorded in the Armed Forces Memorial Roll-of-Honour

THE FIRST GULF WAR 1991

KINNEAR, Donald Bruce
Rank: Sergeant
Regimental Number: 24630266
Unit: Royal Army Pay Corps, Attached 32 Armoured Engineer Regiment, Royal Engineers
Died: Killed in a road-traffic accident 27.1.1991 Saudi Arabia
Age: 24
Parents: Bruce and Olive Kinnear (nee Greenan)
Home: East Clyne
Born: Edinburgh 20.5.66
Job: Regular Soldier
Buried: Bent Cemetery, Hamilton, South Lanarkshire
Memorials: Listed on the Clyne War Memorial, Brora
Commemorated Palace Gardens Memorial Garden, Hollywood, Northern Ireland
Recorded in The Scottish National War Memorial, Edinburgh Castle
Recorded in the Armed Forces Memorial Roll-of-Honour

(Extra information kindly provided by Mrs Olive Kinnear)

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