The Scottish Military Research Group - Commemorations Project

IanA · Joined: 19 Dec 2006 Posts: 949

Located on the B 6460 leading from the village to Paxton House.

IanA · Joined: 19 Dec 2006 Posts: 949

IanA · Joined: 19 Dec 2006 Posts: 949

IanA · Joined: 19 Dec 2006 Posts: 949

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Lt Col David William Milne Home RGA
Cpl Francis Joseph Rand BR
Gunner Peter Geddes Hendry RGA
Pte George Murray Allan RSF
Pte John Cowe Seaforth Highlanders
Pte Thomas Fergie KOSB
Pte John Hendry KOSB
Pte William H Schooler KOSB
Pte William A Spiden Seaforth Highlanders

1939-45

Baird D Pte KOSB
Lowrie J Craftsman REME
Mabon JB Pte RNF
Moffat WB Sgt Pilot RAF
Wooley WA Sgt Pilot RAF

DerekR · Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 8:38 pm Post subject:

UKNIWM Ref No. not listed
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DerekR · Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2009 9:40 pm Post subject:

My thanks to Skwirrel for this postcard:

Name: HENDRY, JOHN
Initials: J
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: King's Own Scottish Borderers
Unit Text: 1st/4th Bn.
Age: 20
Date of Death: 12/07/1915
Service No: 7438
Additional information: Son of the Rev. P. G. Hendry, M.A. and Margaret Hendry, of Paxton Manse, Berwick-on-Tweed. Law Apprentice.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 84 to 92 or 220 to 222.
Memorial: HELLES MEMORIAL
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DerekR · Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2009 9:42 pm Post subject:

Name: HENDRY, PETER GEDDES
Initials: P G
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Gunner
Regiment/Service: Royal Garrison Artillery
Unit Text: 326th Siege Bty.
Age: 19
Date of Death: 06/02/1918
Service No: 152252
Additional information: Son of the Rev. P. G. Hendry, M.A., and Margaret Hendry, of Paxton Manse, Berwick-on-Tweed. Student of Medicine, Edinburgh University. Native of Mordington, Berwickshire.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: XI. B. 5.
Cemetery: VILLERS STATION CEMETERY, VILLERS-AU-BOIS
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Merseman · Joined: 07 Aug 2013 Posts: 339 Location: Duns, Berwickshire

The Scotsman, 27th April 1920

BERWICK - Special dedication services were held at Hutton and Paxton parishes, Berwick, when three war memorials were unveiled by the Very Rev Jas Cooper DD, Professor of Church History, Glasgow University. In the old church at Hutton an oak chancel set, pulpit and lectern was dedicated to the memory of the late Colonel David Milne Home, laird of Billie and Paxton, who died while holding the command of the RGA at Leith Fort in 1918. In the churchyard at Hutton a Celtic cross, bearing the names of those who had fallen in the war, was unveiled; and at a service held later at Paxton a similar cross was unveiled by Dr Cooper.

The Buildings of Scotland - Borders, p606

War Memorial. Celtic cross in pink sandstone, c1920.

stuartn · Joined: 13 Dec 2016 Posts: 2551

WMR 81135

Kenneth Morrison · Posted: Wed Jul 14, 2021 3:03 pm Post subject:

PRIVATE GEORGE MURRAY ALLAN, R.S.F.
George Murray Allan – age 33 – Private (24078) 2nd Battalion, Royal Scots Fusiliers.
George served his apprenticeship as a joiner in Paxton and worked in Coldingham before being employed on the Ladykirk Estate. He enlisted as Private (23162) in the King's Own Scottish Borderers in December 1915 and he was mobilised in March 1916. George was posted to the RSF in France in June but he was killed three months later.
Born 1883 in Paxton, Hutton. Son of William and Janet (Murray) Allan of Paxton.
Killed in Action on 9 September 1916 and buried in Le Touret Military Cemetery, Richebourg-L'Avoue, France.

PRIVATE JOHN COWE, SEAh. H.
John Cowe – age 24 – Private (S/6670) 7th Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders.
John enlisted in October 1914 and landed with the 8th Seaforths at Boulogne in August 1915. He was wounded and evacuated to hospital in Dartford, Kent in October. He was in hospital again in August 1916 due to illness and after one of these he was posted to the 7th Battalion.
Born 1893 in Hutton. Son of John Downie Cowe and Janet (Rutherford) Cowe of Fishwick, Hutton/Paxton and of Springwells and Kames West Mains, Leithholm, Eccles, Berwickshire.
Missing in Action on 2 May 1917 and named on the Arras Memorial, France.
Also named on the Eccles Parish War Memorial.

PRIVATE THOMAS FERGIE, K.O.S.B.
Note: Until 1911 the family name was Fargie.
Thomas Fergie – age 20 – Private (45256) 4th (Reserve) Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers.
Thomas had been brought up in Berwick-on-Tweed where his father was a grocer's vanman but the family had returned to Paxton. Thomas was in his third week of training when he became ill and he died in the West of Fife Infectious Diseases Hospital in Dumfermline.
Born 1898 in Paxton, Hutton as Fargie. Son of Thomas and Janet (Edgar) Fergie of Paxton.
Died on Service on 10 July 1918 and buried in Hutton New Burial Ground. (CWG)

Kenneth Morrison · Posted: Wed Jul 14, 2021 3:11 pm Post subject:

PRIVATE JOHN HENDRY, K.O.S.B.
John Hendry – age 20 – Private (7438) 1/4th (Border) Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers.
John was educated at Berwick Grammar School before starting an apprenticeship in law in Ayton, Berwickshire and he was for several years his father's organist. He enlisted in December 1914 and he landed with his brother William David Hendry, Private (7761) and their battalion at Gallipoli in June 1915 but William had to report his brother's death (and that of William Schooler – see below) a month later after the battle at Achi Baba Nullah.
Born 1895 at Mordington Manse, Berwickshire. Son of the Rev. Peter Geddes Hendry, M.A. and of Margaret (Jones) Hendry of Paxton Manse.
Missing in Action on 12 July 1915 and named on the Helles Memorial, Gallipoli, Turkey.
Also named on the Berwick Grammar School memorial.

and his brother

GUNNER PETER GEDDES HENDRY, R.G.A.
Peter Geddes Hendry – age 19 – Gunner (152252) 326th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery.
Peter was educated at Berwick Grammar School before becoming a student of medicine at Edinburgh University in 1916. He enlisted in April 1917 and went to France in December but whilst in training he was accidentally killed.
Born 1898 at Mordington Manse, Berwickshire. Son of the Rev. Peter Geddes Hendry, M.A. and of Margaret (Jones) Hendry of Paxton Manse.
Died on Active Service on 6 February 1918 and buried in Villers Station Cemetery, Villers-au-Bois, France.
Also named on the Berwick Grammar School memorial, on the Edinburgh University Old College memorial and on the University's Roll of the Fallen.

LIEUT. COLONEL DAVID WILLIAM MILNE HOME, R.G.A.
David William Milne Home – age 45 – Lieutenant Colonel, Royal Garrison Artillery.
David had served with the local militia, the South-East of Scotland Royal Field Reserve Artillery, since the 1890's and was in the Special Reserve as Major and Honorary Lieutenant–Colonel from 1909. He offered his services at the outbreak of war and was in command of Leith Fort when he stopped off at at Grange in Reston, Coldingham on his way from Edinburgh to the Isle of Wight. He contracted influenza and died.
Born 1873 in Chelsea, London. Son of the late Colonel David Milne Home, Royal Horse Guards, (died 1901) and of the late Jane (Buchan-Hepburn) Milne Home (died 1881). Husband of Margaret Florence (Pole) Milne Home of Paxton House who he married in 1904 in London.
Died on Service on 27 July 1918 and buried in the family enclosure in Hutton Parish Churchyard. (CWG)
Also named on an individual memorial in Hutton Parish Church.

Kenneth Morrison · Posted: Wed Jul 14, 2021 3:18 pm Post subject:

CORPORAL FRANCIS JOSEPH RAND, Bdr.R.
Francis Joseph Rand – age 20 – Corporal (17348) 11th Battalion (Lonsdale), Border Regiment.
Frank was an apprentice cabinet maker on the Isle of Wight when he came north to enlisted in Kendal in November 1914. He had been promoted to Corporal when he landed with his battalion at Boulogne in November 1915. Frank was killed on the first day of the Battle of the Somme.
Born 1896 in Beaulieu, Hampshire. Son of John and Jane Clara (Burnett) Rand of Gainslaw Hill, Berwick-on-Tweed (near Paxton)
Killed in Action on 1 July 1916.
Commonwealth War Grave – Bouzincourt Communal Cemetery Extension, France.
Also named on the Berwick-on-Tweed War Memorial.

PRIVATE WILLIAM H. SCHOOLER, K.O.S.B.
William Howey Schooler – age 24 – Private (7443) 1/4th (Border) Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers.
William was a joiner with his father in Paxton. He enlisted with his friend John Hendry (see above) in December 1914 and they landed with their battalion at Gallipoli in June 1915 but they were both killed a month later during the battle at Achi Baba Nullah.
Born 1890 at Spittal, Berwick-on-Tweed, Northumberland. Son of John and Isabella (Howey) Schooler, of Paxton.
Missing in Action on 12 July 1915 and named on the Helles Memorial, Gallipoli, Turkey.

PRIVATE WILLIAM A. SPIDEN, SEAh. H.
William Alexander Spiden – age 29 – Private (S/6669) 8th Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders.
William was a ploughman at Camphill, Berwick-on-Tweed when he enlisted in December 1914. He landed with his battalion at Boulogne in October 1915 but he was fatally wounded in the following May and died two days later in hospital in Bethune.
Born 1886 in Hutton. Son of David Christie Spiden and of Ellen (Tunnah) Spiden of Fishwick, Paxton.
Died of Wounds on 13 May 1916 and buried in Bethune Town Cemetery, France.

Kenneth Morrison · Posted: Wed Jul 14, 2021 3:26 pm Post subject:

1939-45

BAIRD, G. PTE. K.O.S.B.
Thought to be:
George Baird – age 24 – Private (3197830) 5th Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers.
George was employed as a joiner in Berwick-on-Tweed, Northumberland when he enlisted in 1941. He was killed during the battle for Walcheren Island at the the entrance to the River Scheldt and he was buried at Biervliet but was re-interred in June 1946.
Born 1920 in Tweedmouth, Berwick-on-Tweed. Son of the late Andrew Baird, formerly of the Traveller's Arms, Tweedmouth (died 1931) and Elizabeth (Callan) Baird. Nephew of Mary A. Johnston of Berwick-on-Tweed.
Killed in Action on 4 November 1944 and buried in Bergen-Op-Zoom War Cemetery, Netherlands.

LOWRIE, J. CRAFTSMAN, R.E.M.E.
Joseph Lowrie – age 37 – Craftsman (14210891) Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers.
Joseph had been a gardener Clifton Park, Linton, Roxburghshire before he became a chauffeur to Colonel Home at Bassendean House, Westruther, Berwickshire. Joseph was attached to the 2nd Lothians and Border Horse Yeomanry in the 6th Armoured Division when he was killed.
Born 1907 in Mordington, Berwickshire. Son of the late Andrew Lowrie, formerly a shepherd at Hundalee, Jedburgh, Roxburghshire (died 1942) and of Mary Farmer (Waddell) Lowrie of 18 Thornfield Avenue, Selkirk. Husband of Agnes (Fergie) Lowrie of Clairvale, Paxton who he married in 1933 in Paxton, Hutton.
Killed in Action on 20 July 1944 and buried in Assisi War Cemetery, Italy.
Also named on the Westruther Parish War Memorial and on the Jedburgh War Memorial.

MABON, J.B. PTE. R.N.F.
John Blair Mabon – age 21 – Fusilier (4273936) 7th Battalion, Royal Northumberland Fusiliers.
At the outbreak of the war, the 7th RNF was organized as a machine gun battalion and they went to France in October 1939. They were attached to the 51st (Highland) Infantry Division which was then pulled back to the west of Northern France and had to surrender at Saint-Valery-en-Caux on 12 June 1940.
Born 1918 in Newcastle upon Tyne. Son of the late George Blair Mabon, formerly of Lindean Mill, Selkirk, (died 1935) and of Jean Blackwood (Blair) Mabon of New Mills, Berwick-on-Tweed (near Paxton)
Killed in Action on 9 June 1940 and buried in St. Sever Cemetery Extension, Rouen, France.

Kenneth Morrison · Posted: Wed Jul 14, 2021 3:29 pm Post subject:

MOFFAT, W.B. SGT.PILOT, R.A.F.
William Brown Moffat – age 20 – Sergeant (1055938) 108 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.
William was educated at Berwickshire High School in Duns before taking a position in the civil service in London in 1938. His department was moved to Southport and he joined the RAF in late 1939. He gained his “wings” in September 1940 and joined his squadron when it was formed in Egypt in August 1941. William was the pilot of a Wellington bomber which had taken off from RAF Fayid in Egypt for a raid on Martuba Landing ground in Lybia but the aircraft failed to return.
Born 1921 Glendale, Northumberland. Son of Henry Tait Moffat and Catherine Hall (Brown) Moffat of Orchard House, Paxton.
Killed in Action on 24 February 1942 and buried in Knightsbridge War Cemetery, Acroma, Libya.
Also named on the Berwickshire High School memorial and on a joint memorial with Sgt. Woolley in Paxton Church.

WOOLEY, W.A. SGT.PILOT, R.A.F.
Note: All records show the family name as Woolley.
William Armstrong Woolley – age 24 – Sergeant (658470) Royal Air Force.
William was educated at Berwickshire High School in Duns and he was attending the Benmore Forestry school in Argyllshire when he joined the army shortly after the outbreak war. Initially with the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders he was transferred to a Forestry Company of the Royal Engineers and went to France in December 1939. He was evacuated from Dunkirk in 1940 and in July 1941 he was accepted for air-crew training with the RAF, gained his “wings” in 1942. He was flying a Hurricane of 151 Operational Training Unit at RAF Risalpur in India's north-west frontier when the aircraft crashed near Tangi.
Born 1918 in Newcastle upon Tyne. Son of Mark Wilson Woolley and Margaret Nicholson (Armstrong) Woolley of Thorn Cottage, Paxton and of Tweedmouth, Northumberland.
Died on Service on 24 March 1943 and buried in Karachi War Cemetery, Pakistan.
Also named on the Berwickshire High School memorial, on the Holy Trinity Church memorial in Berwick and on a joint memorial with Sgt. Moffat in Paxton Church.
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