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Keptie
Joined: 24 Feb 2009 Posts: 939 Location: near Arbroath Angus
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Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2010 12:31 pm Post subject: Leith Hospital Leith Edinburgh |
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I hear from my friend Capt Ronnie Leask MBE in Edinbugh that the LEITH HOSPITAL was built as a MEMORIAL HOSPITAL for WW1 .
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Adam Brown Curator
Joined: 14 Dec 2006 Posts: 7312 Location: Edinburgh (From Sutherland)
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Keptie
Joined: 24 Feb 2009 Posts: 939 Location: near Arbroath Angus
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Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2010 7:17 pm Post subject: Leith War Memorial hospital |
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Adam
thanks for the info on the War Memorial hospital . Hope the building is being preserved now it has been closed .
I am interested in a WW1 casualty from Leith as my namesake Uncle Lieut Patrick Wright Anderson , then with the 10 Black Watch in Salonika was on a night raid on enemy lines and a soldier from Glasgow and from Leith had been obviously seriously wounded and my Uncle and a 2nd Lt Duffy carried the two soldiers back to their lines but both sadly died of their wounds . The one from Leith was Pte S/ 5581 John Scott Thomson, aged 26 , "B " Coy 10Bn Black Watch dow 1 Oct 1916 son of Mr & Mrs Thomas Thomson of Leith and husband of Davina Thomson , 37 Arthur St , Edinburgh . Both casualties from that night raid were buried in Karasouli Mil Cemetery .
I have not so far found any war memorial in Leith with this Black Watch soldier's name on it .
best wishes
Pat
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