The Scottish Military Research Group - Commemorations Project

dhubthaigh · Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2007 6:31 pm Post subject: WORMIT

spoons · Posted: Sun Mar 08, 2009 11:13 am Post subject:

From The Scotsman 6th December 1920:

"Wormit - A war memorial was unveiled at Wormit, Fife, on Saturday in presence of a large assemblage, including many relatives of men who fell in the war connected with the district. The monument is of granite, and occupies a prominent site at the south end of the Tay Bridge. On it are the names of six officers and twelve men. The monument was unveiled by Colonel J. B. Muir, D. S. O. 4th Black Watch."

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Name: STURROCK
Initials: H D [Harry Douglas - from the SNWM website}
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Captain
Regiment/Service: Army Cyclist Corps
Unit Text: 1st/1st Highland Cyclist Battalion.
Date of Death: 01/02/1918
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: 7. 185.
Cemetery: DUNDEE WESTERN CEMETERY
Decoration: M.C. [info. from the SNWM website]

Name: GOUICK, JOHN ALEXANDER
Initials: J A
Nationality: Canadian
Rank: Lieutenant
Regiment/Service: Canadian Field Artillery
Unit Text: 1st Bde.
Age: 26
Date of Death: 15/04/1918
Additional information: Son of John and Lucy Gouick, of "Cragside," Wormit, Fife, Scotland. Native of Dundee, Scotland.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: VI. F. 12.
Cemetery: AUBIGNY COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION

Name: LINDSAY, ROBERT EDMOND
Initials: R E
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Lieutenant
Regiment/Service: Royal Air Force
Age: 25
Date of Death: 06/12/1918
Additional information: Son of the late David Lindsay, of Woodhaven, Wormit, Fife, and of Mrs. Lindsay, of West Newport, Fife. Born at Newport, Fife.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: B. 58.
Cemetery: FORGAN (VICARSFORD) CEMETERY

Name: MACKENZIE, FREDERICK THOMAS
Initials: F T
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Lieutenant
Regiment/Service: Royal Field Artillery
Unit Text: 169th Lowland Bde.
Age: 29
Date of Death: 23/03/1918
Additional information: Son of Frederick Thomas and Annie Mackenzie, of Riverview, Wormit Fife.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Bay 1.
Memorial: ARRAS MEMORIAL

Name: MacBETH, WILLIAM DAVID
Initials: W D
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Second Lieutenant
Regiment/Service: Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)
Unit Text: 1st/6th Bn.
Age: 33
Date of Death: 23/04/1917
Additional information: Son of Serjt. John MacBeth and Margaret McDougall MacBeth. Born at Dornoch, Sutherland.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: I. G. 23.
Cemetery: BROWN'S COPSE CEMETERY, ROEUX

Name: LESLIE
Initials: W K
Nationality: Canadian
Rank: Sergeant
Regiment/Service: Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment)
Unit Text: 102nd Bn.
Age: 31
Date of Death: 05/06/1917
Service No: 103064
Awards: M M
Additional information: Son of William and Isabelle Leslie, of Fifeshire, Scotland; husband of Maud Louise Leslie, of 1617, E. 8th St., Long Beach, California, U.S.A.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: IX. C. 3.
Cemetery: VILLERS STATION CEMETERY, VILLERS-AU-BOIS

Name: LAWSON, ROBERT T.
Initials: R T
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Corporal
Regiment/Service: Royal Field Artillery
Unit Text: 256th (Highland) Bde. H.Q.
Age: 26
Date of Death: 25/07/1916
Service No: 817
Additional information: Son of Robert and Georgina Lawson, of Helen Villa, Wormit, Fife. Born at Dundee.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: E. 36.
Cemetery: MEAULTE MILITARY CEMETERY

Name: SWANN, ARTHUR NORMAN
Initials: A N
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: 2nd Corporal
Regiment/Service: Royal Engineers
Unit Text: 21st Div. Signal Coy.
Age: 22
Date of Death: 05/10/1917
Service No: 48483
Additional information: Son of William and Jane Ellen Swann, of 10, Hillpark Terrace, Wormit-on-Tay, Fife.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 8 and 162.
Memorial: TYNE COT MEMORIAL

Name: MAXWELL, DAVID KENNETH
Initials: D K
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Seaforth Highlanders
Unit Text: 6th Bn.
Age: 21
Date of Death: 31/07/1917
Service No: 267572
Additional information: Son of David Chalmers Maxwell, of Westmount, Wormit-on-Tay, Fife.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 38.
Memorial: YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL

Name: AITKEN
Initials: J [John - from SNWM website]
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Royal Scots
Unit Text: 2nd Bn.
Date of Death: 30/07/1916
Service No: 30816
Additional information: Son of John Aitken, of "Roseneath," Wormit, Fife.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: XXII. D. 5.
Cemetery: DELVILLE WOOD CEMETERY, LONGUEVAL

Name: BRUCE, ALEXANDER
Initials: A
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)
Unit Text: 8th Bn.
Age: 19
Date of Death: 30/03/1918
Service No: S/22015
Additional information: Son of Alexander and Mrs. Bruce, of Varna Cottage, Wormit, Dundee. Native of Wormit.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: XXXIII. B. 25.
Cemetery: ETAPLES MILITARY CEMETERY

Name: BUIST, WILLIAM
Initials: W
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)
Unit Text: 9th Bn.
Date of Death: 25/09/1915
Service No: S/4915
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 78 to 83.
Memorial: LOOS MEMORIAL
Place of Birth: Newport, Fife [info. from the SNWM website]

Name: FARQUHARSON, GEORGE GORRIE
Initials: G G
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Seaforth Highlanders
Unit Text: 7th Bn.
Age: 18
Date of Death: 17/04/1918
Service No: S/25096
Additional information: Son of George G. and Annie Farquharson, of Rowan Bank, Wormit, Fife.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: III. F. 25.
Cemetery: HARINGHE (BANDAGHEM) MILITARY CEMETERY

Name: KENNEDY, GEORGE
Initials: G
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Highland Light Infantry
Unit Text: 2nd Bn.
Age: 26
Date of Death: 13/11/1914
Service No: 9674
Additional information: Husband of Jessie Leslie Innes Kennedy, of 72, Dudhope St., Dundee.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 38.
Memorial: YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL

(probably)
Name: MOWAT, JOHN GILBERT
Initials: J G
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Tank Corps
Unit Text: 9th Bn.
Date of Death: 26/03/1918
Service No: 78941
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 94.
Memorial: POZIERES MEMORIAL

(probably)
Name: WANN, ROBERT
Initials: R
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)
Unit Text: 14th (Fife and Forfar Yeomanry) Bn.
Age: 25
Date of Death: 15/04/1917
Service No: S/18703
Additional information: Son of James and Mary A. Wann, of Montrave Home Farm, Leven, Fife.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Memorial: MIKRA MEMORIAL
Place of Birth: Cupar [info. from the SNWM website]
Theatre of Death: At sea [info. from the SNWM website]

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ADP · Joined: 13 Jun 2008 Posts: 467 Location: Edinburgh

Here are the names from the Second World War plaque in Wormit

Name: CLARK, JOHN DOUGLAS
Initials: J D
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Ordinary Signalman
Regiment/Service: Royal Navy
Unit Text: H.M.S. Stronghold.
Date of Death: 02/03/1942
Service No: P/JX 214006
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 66, Column 3.
Memorial: PORTSMOUTH NAVAL MEMORIAL
Place of Birth: Dundee [info. from SNWM website]

Name: COWLEY, IAN SCOTT
Initials: I S
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Lieutenant
Regiment/Service: Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)
Unit Text: 2nd Bn.
Age: 23
Date of Death: 05/04/1943
Service No: 87976
Additional information: Son of William Robertson Cowley and Jeannie Blaine Cowley, of Wormit-on-Tay, Fife.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: 1. E. 5.
Cemetery: RANCHI WAR CEMETERY

Name: GALL, ROBERT
Initials: R
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)
Unit Text: 7th Bn.
Age: 23
Date of Death: between 23/10/1942 and 24/10/1942
Service No: 2758390
Additional information: Son of William and Jane Beckett Ames Gall, of Wormit, Fife.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Coll. grave XVII. A. 10-19.
Cemetery: EL ALAMEIN WAR CEMETERY

Name: GRAY, JAMES GORDON
Initials: J G
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Warrant Officer (Pilot)
Regiment/Service: Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Unit Text: 74 Sqdn.
Age: 21
Date of Death: 04/11/1943
Service No: 1112549
Additional information: Son of Kenneth Camron Gray and Grace Proctor Gray, of Wormit, Fife.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: 5. G. 2.
Cemetery: ALEXANDRIA (HADRA) WAR MEMORIAL CEMETERY

Name: McFARLAND, DONALD KEITH
Initials: D K
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Sergeant (Pilot)
Regiment/Service: Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Unit Text: 77 Sqdn.
Age: 26
Date of Death: 13/06/1941
Service No: 748349
Additional information: Son of the Revd. W. J. McFarland, and of Sara McFarland, of Wormit, Fife.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: 34. A. 5.
Cemetery: BERGEN-OP-ZOOM WAR CEMETERY

Bdr. Neil G Melrose; A/A., R.A. [not found on CWGC or SNWM websites]

Name: MONCUR, JOHN CLACHER
Initials: J C
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Second Radio Officer
Regiment/Service: Merchant Navy
Unit Text: S.S. Vancouver (Glasgow)
Age: 24
Date of Death: 21/09/1941
Additional information: Son of James and Elizabeth Moncur, of Wormit, Fife.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 113.
Memorial: TOWER HILL MEMORIAL

Name: PATERSON, JAMES ERNEST
Initials: J E
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Fifth Engineer Officer
Regiment/Service: Merchant Navy
Unit Text: S.S. Clan Mactavish (Glasgow)
Age: 20
Date of Death: 08/10/1942
Additional information: Son of Alfred Ernest Paterson, and of Agnes Thomson Paterson, of Wormit-on-Tay, Fifeshire.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 30.
Memorial: TOWER HILL MEMORIAL

Name: PATTERSON, ROBERT LAWSON
Initials: R L
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Pilot Officer
Regiment/Service: Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Unit Text: 235 Sqdn.
Age: 26
Date of Death: 18/07/1940
Service No: 77529
Additional information: Son of John Muirhead Patterson and Helen Smith Patterson, of Wormit, Fife.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 9.
Memorial: RUNNYMEDE MEMORIAL

Name: RAE, WILLIAM MITCHELL
Initials: W M
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Trooper
Regiment/Service: Royal Armoured Corps
Unit Text: 1st Fife and Forfar Yeomanry.
Age: 27
Date of Death: 20/05/1940
Service No: 7891297
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Plot 2. Row F. Grave 4.
Cemetery: EBBLINGHEM MILITARY CEMETERY

Name: STEPHENSON, WALTER FARQUHARSON
Initials: W F
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Apprentice (Supy.)
Regiment/Service: Merchant Navy
Age: 19
Date of Death: 04/03/1943
Additional information: Son of Walter Farquharson Stephenson and Margaret Paterson Young Stephenson, of Wormit, Fife.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 30.
Memorial: TOWER HILL MEMORIAL

Name: WATT, WILLIAM MARTIN
Initials: W M
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Sergeant (W.Op./Air Gnr.)
Regiment/Service: Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Unit Text: 50 Sqdn.
Date of Death: 24/07/1941
Service No: 1151053
Additional information: Son of William Martin Watt and Louie Haynes Watt.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Compt. 15. Grave 72C.
Cemetery: DUNDEE WESTERN CEMETERY

Name: YOUNG, VICTOR JOHN BELL
Initials: V J B
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Royal Scots
Unit Text: 8th Bn.
Date of Death: 14/09/1944
Service No: 14414531
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: I.C.6.
Cemetery: KASTERLEE WAR CEMETERY
Place of Birth: Fife [info. from SNWM website]
Theatre of Death: Western Europe Campaign, 1944-45 [info. from SNWM website]

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Adam Brown · Posted: Sun Mar 08, 2009 9:13 pm Post subject:

One of the men listed had been a pupil at Kilmarnock Academy and is recorded in their Roll of Honour

James Gordon Gray left school in 1937 to become an apprentice analytical chemist. While at school, and till his death, he was a keen cricketer. Soon after joining the R.A.F. he became Warrant-Officer Pilot, and was killed in 1943 while testing a new Spitfire.

Adam

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