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PostPosted: Sat Jun 20, 2009 2:48 pm    Post subject: Thrumster Estate, Caithness Reply with quote
Memorial: Thrumster Estate
Location: In the grounds of Thrumster Parish Church, by the A99 (previously A9), just south of the village
Grid Ref: ND333447
UKNIWM Ref: 5948
Sculptor: Hood, Wick
Count: WWI=16, WWII=6









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PostPosted: Sat Jun 20, 2009 2:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
And the transcriptions:

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1914-1918

James Bremner, Leading Seaman, R.N.R.
James McCurtney, A.B.Seaman
Stf.Sgt. Charles Sutherland, Seaforth Highlanders
Lce. Cpl. David Miller, M.M., Seaforth Highlanders
Pte. Daniel Cormack, Seaforth Highlanders
Pte. William McKillop, Seaforth Highlanders
Pte. John McPherson, Seaforth Highlanders
Pte. Alexander More, M.M., Seaforth Highlanders
Pte. John George Sinclair, Seaforth Highlanders
Pte. James Sutherland, Seaforth Highlanders

Pte. William Oag, Black Watch
Pte. Peter Forbes, Scots Guards
William Collins, Australian I.F.
William Miller, M.M., 27th Canadian Batt.
James Doull, New Zealand Rifle Brigade
Seaman Donald Bremner, R.N.R.

1939-1945

Seaman J. Anderson, R.N.V.R.
Capt. C. A. St.J. Harmsworth, Welsh Guards
Guardsman D. McDonald, Scots Guards
Pte. A. MacKay, Seaforth Hldrs.
Pte. J. D. M. Sutherland, Seaforth Hldrs.
Trooper G. Groat, R.A.C.

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PostPosted: Sat Jun 20, 2009 2:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Confirmation of the last name, where the G's were difficult to discern from C's.

Name: GROAT, GEORGE
Initials: G
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Trooper
Regiment/Service: Royal Armoured Corps
Unit Text: 116th (9th Bn. The Gordon Highlanders) Regt.
Age: 23
Date of Death: between 26/02/1945 and 27/02/1945
Service No: 2761937
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Face 2.
Memorial: RANGOON MEMORIAL

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PostPosted: Sat Jun 20, 2009 3:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Name: HARMSWORTH, CHARLES ALFRED ST JOHN
Initials: C A S J
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Captain
Regiment/Service: Welsh Guards
Unit Text: 3rd Bn.
Age: 28
Date of Death: 09/04/1943
Service No: 56231
Additional information: Son of Vyvyan George and Gwendolen Harmsworth; husband of Ellen Mary Harmsworth, of Grove, Kent.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: II. B. 18.
Cemetery: ENFIDAVILLE WAR CEMETERY


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PostPosted: Sat Jun 20, 2009 3:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
ADP wrote:
HARMSWORTH, CHARLES ALFRED ST JOHN
Son of Vyvyan George and Gwendolen Harmsworth


Vyvyan Harmsworth bought the Thrumster Estate in 1928.

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PostPosted: Sat Jun 20, 2009 3:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I thought that name was familiar. We had Thrumster posted before but it was classed as a Civic memorial

http://warmemscot.s4.bizhat.com/viewtopic.php?t=2038

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PostPosted: Sat Jun 20, 2009 3:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Adam Brown wrote:
I thought that name was familiar. We had Thrumster posted before but it was classed as a Civic memorial

http://warmemscot.s4.bizhat.com/viewtopic.php?t=2038

That'll teach me not to use the forum SEARCH feature first. Embarassed

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