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David McNay Administrator
Joined: 14 Dec 2006 Posts: 11425 Location: Lanarkshire, Scotland
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Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 11:24 pm Post subject: Abbey Church, North Berwick, East Lothian (WW2) |
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Location: High Street, North Berwick
First World War Memorial posted here.
Situated inside the church, to the left of the pulpit as you face it.
A small plaque containing just five names.
IMG_6663 by Scottish Military Research Group, on Flickr
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David McNay Administrator
Joined: 14 Dec 2006 Posts: 11425 Location: Lanarkshire, Scotland
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Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 11:26 pm Post subject: |
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This seems the most likely candidate for Kenneth Alexander, but I cannot confirm it:
Name: ALEXANDER, KENNETH
Initials: K
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Pilot Officer (Pilot U/T)
Regiment/Service: Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Age: 21
Date of Death: 13/10/1941
Service No: 106162
Additional information: Son of Harold and Isabella Ballantyne Alexander, of Edinburgh.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Sec. T. Grave 42.
Cemetery: EDINBURGH (LIBERTON) CEMETERY |
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David McNay Administrator
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Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 11:27 pm Post subject: |
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Name: FENDER, JOHN
Initials: J
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Leading Aircraftman
Regiment/Service: Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Unit Text: 211 Sqdn.
Age: 26
Date of Death: 25/05/1943
Service No: 1103623
Additional information: Son of James and Annie Fender, of North Berwick, East Lothian.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: 6. D. 12.
Cemetery: AMBON WAR CEMETERY |
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David McNay Administrator
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Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 11:28 pm Post subject: |
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Name: LAWSON, GEORGE SIMPSON
Initials: G S
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Flying Officer (Pilot)
Regiment/Service: Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Unit Text: 35 Sqdn.
Age: 30
Date of Death: 23/12/1944
Service No: 149628
Additional information: Son of Alexander Small Lawson and of Frances Anne Hall Lawson (nee Simpson), of North Berwick, East Lothian.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Sec. 50. Grave 16252.
Cemetery: MARGATE CEMETERY, Kent |
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David McNay Administrator
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Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 11:30 pm Post subject: |
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Too many George Youngs to identify. There are two George G Youngs but neither seem to fit. |
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David McNay Administrator
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Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 11:31 pm Post subject: |
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Cannot find Nan McKemmie on either CWGC or SNWM. |
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Kenneth Morrison
Joined: 29 Sep 2008 Posts: 7749 Location: Rockcliffe Dalbeattie
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Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2022 4:16 pm Post subject: |
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All of those named are also named on the North Berwick War Memorial.
KENNETH ALEXANDER
Kenneth Alexander – age 21 – Pilot Officer (106162) Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve (Ferry)
Kenneth was educated at Edinburgh Academy and joined the RAF in July 1940. He was commissioned from Leading Aircraftman (1058524) in September 1941 but was killed a month later while serving with a Ferry Squadron at RAF Kemble in Gloucestershire when his aircraft crashed near Cirencester during a training flight.
Born 1920 in Edinburgh. Son of Harold and Isabella Ballantyne (Dods) Alexander of Edinburgh and of Injebreck, North Berwick.
Died on Service on 13 October 1941 and buried in Edinburgh (Liberton) Cemetery.
Also named on the Edinburgh Academy memorial.
JOHN FENDER
John Fender – age 26 – Leading Aircraftman (1103623) 211 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.
At the end of 1941 211 Squadron was sent to Singapore in an attempt shore up the defences against the advancing Japanese, but by the time it reached the Far East the airfields in Malaya were already under attack and so the squadron moved on to Sumatra. A few operations were flown from Sumatra before the squadron was forced to retreat to Java in mid February.
John was taken prisoner on 8 March 1942 when Java fell and he died in a PoW Camp at Cape Marakee on Haroekoe Island. He was re-interred in Ambon in February 1947.
Born 1916 in North Berwick. Son of James and Annie (Potter) Fender of 14 St. Andrews Street, North Berwick.
Died on Service on25 May 1943 and buried in Ambon War Cemetery, Indonesia.
GEORGE S. LAWSON
George Simpson Lawson – age 30 – Flying Officer (149628) 35 Squadron, Bomber Command, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.
George joined the Dundee City Police in June 1934 and enlisted in the RAF in July 1941. Trained in Florida, he was commissioned from Sergeant (1346158) in June 1943 and promoted to FO in December 1943. He was the pilot of a Lancaster bomber which had taken off from RAF Graveley, Huntingdon for a daylight raid on Cologne but his aircraft collided with another Lancaster just off the Kent coast near South Foreland. Both aircraft crashed into the sea.
Born 1914 in Edinburgh. Son of Alexander Small Lawson and of Frances Anne Hall (Simpson) Lawson of 43 St. Baldred's Road, North Berwick.
Died on Active Service on 23 December 1944 and buried in Margate Cemetery, Kent. (CWG)
Also named on the Dundee City Police memorial.
GEORGE G. YOUNG
George Grimson Young – age 21 – Ordinary Signalman (D/JX421545) H.M.S. Copra, Royal Navy.
HMS Copra was a Royal Navy shore base at Largs in Ayrshire for RN personnel attached to Combined Operations. George died of kidney disease in the Law Hospital in Carluke, Lanarkshire.
Born 1925 in North Berwick. Son of the late William Kay Young (died 1928 in Montreal, Canada) and Helen (Grimson) Young. Husband of Annie Donald (McLaughlan) Young of 37 Sanderson Avenue, Fallside, Uddingston who he married in 1944 in Bellshill, Lanarkshire.
Died on 14 February 1945 and buried in Bothwell Park Cemetery, Bellshill. (CWG)
NAN P. McKEMMIE
Not listed by CWGC.
Nan Paterson McKemmie – age 23 – Secretary, Girls' Association.
Nan died of tuberculosis in the Bangour Hospital in Broxburn, Uphall, West Lothian.
Born 1924 in North Berwick. Daughter of Oliver Dickie McKemmie and of Christina Elizabeth (Morton) of Hillcrest, Dundas Avenue, North Berwick.
Died on 24 January 1948. _________________ Ken |
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