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 Posted: Sun Jan 14, 2007 4:14 pm Post subject: Closeburn |
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UKNIWM Ref: 5882
OS Map Ref: NX 890 920
I think I am missing a photo with the WW2 names, will go back for it
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spoons
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I finally got back to photograph the missing WW2 panel, and while I was at it, take a better shot of the monument now that the roadworks have finished.
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Spoons
Nice update and a very nice memorial in a good setting. I notice the Second World War names for the King's Own Scottish Borderers are KOSBs rather than KOSB, a nice little touch.
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From the Second World War names young Robert Hutchison was a Cabin Boy lost on the Convoy Rescue vessel SS 'Stockport'
HUTCHISON, ROBERT ANDREW
Rank: Cabin Boy
Regiment/Service: Merchant Navy
Unit Text: S.S. Stockport (Grimsby)
Age: 17
Date of Death: 25/02/1943
Additional information: Son of Lewis and Mary McRobert Hutchison, of Closeburn, Dumfriesshire.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 101.
Memorial: TOWER HILL MEMORIAL
For more information about the crew and the loss of the 'Stockport' please see this thread on the Scottish War Graves Project forum
http://scottishwargraves.phpbbweb.com/viewtopic.php?t=563
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A WAAF listed on this memorial
McKIE, LOUI
Rank: Leading Aircraftwoman
Regiment/Service: Women's Auxiliary Air Force
Age: 21
Date of Death: 13/10/1943
Service No: 433863
Additional information: Daughter of James Douglas McKie, and of Hannah McKie, of Thornhill.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Sec. A. Grave 45.
Cemetery: CLOSEBURN CEMETERY
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Is this the William Farrow listed?
FARROW, WILLIAM
Rank: Lance Serjeant
Regiment/Service: Royal Fusiliers
Unit Text: 25th Bn.
Age: 29
Date of Death: 25/10/1917
Service No: 14873
Additional information: Son of John and Agnes Farrow, of Gatelaw Bridge, Thornhill, Dumfriesshire. Scotland.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: 5. N. 3.
Cemetery: DAR ES SALAAM WAR CEMETERY
The 25th Bn Royal Fusiliers was the Frontiersmen battalion. RFLF on the memorial is perhaps Royal Fusiliers, Legion of Frontiersmen?
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