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Keptie
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 Posted: Sat Jul 18, 2009 3:27 pm Post subject: Lieut James Russell, 15th Punjab Reg ,kia 24/7/1944 Italy |
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The Burn Estate at Edzell , Kincardineshire (now Aberdeenshire Grampian) was bequeathed in 1948 to Goodenough College, by Herbert Russell In MEMORY OF THEIR SON, JAMES killed in action 1944 aged 21 years .
The Burn is a Centre for Students , graduates and academic staff from around the world .
Burn House on the 190 acres estate dates from 1791 and is situated on the Kincardineshire side of the River North Esk .
The Bursar is Lt Col (Rtd) G A Middlemiss formerly KOSB's . Colonel Andy Middemiss had a memorial service recently ( 2004 ? ) at the Burn estate for Lieutenant EC/ 7127 James Russell , 3rd Bn , 15th PUNJAB REGIMENT aged 21 who was killed in action on 24 July 1944 and the CWGC index shows him as being the son of George Herbert Russell and Marjorie Pleasaunce Lindsay Russell of Merklands , Perthshire . He is buried in CWGC grave X11 A 7 in Florence War Cemetery. Lieutenant Russell's friends and his sister and husband attended the memorial service at the Burn Estate .
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