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dhubthaigh
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 12:09 pm    Post subject: BLAIRGOWRIE, POST OFFICE Reply with quote

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dhubthaigh
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 12:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I've been trying to locate this memorial for a while and am very pleased to have found it.
The Post Office has seen several moves over many years but the memorial is in situ within the new delivery centre in Railway Road, Blairgowrie.
I am actually surprised it has survived.
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 1:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Another wee feather in your cap Mark - well done!

Anne
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 1:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Here is a link to Heather Johnson's tribute to her uncle William F. P. Brodie. I have been in touch with Heather many times previously:

http://ww1cemeteries.com/ww1cemeteries/kranjiwar.htm
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 6:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Well done for tracking this one down

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PostPosted: Fri Oct 08, 2010 9:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

WW1

R. Dickson
T. Gellally
D. Irvine
W.G. MacDonald
J. McQuattie
W.H. McQuattie

WW2

W.F.P. Brodie
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Heather A.



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PostPosted: Sun Dec 05, 2010 10:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thank you. Thank you. For posting this discovery. I never knew of it's existence until today ... my first day of registering with this Project Forum.

My Uncle Willie (William Forbes Petrie Brodie) appears on the Board and I am so grateful to have come across it. It is to the credit of the Blairgowrie Post Office that they continue to have respect for their fallen colleagues by displaying it.

Many thanks Heather (Johnson)
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Adam Brown
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 06, 2010 11:51 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Heather A. wrote:
It is to the credit of the Blairgowrie Post Office that they continue to have respect for their fallen colleagues by displaying it.


It is a credit to the Blairgowrie Post Office. Not every organisation still honours their war dead, and some use a building move or a closure as an excuse to pack away or throw away a memorial. To see this displayed even after they have moved several times is a heartening sight.

Thanks for taking the time to post on the forum.

Kind regards

Adam
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Kenneth Morrison



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PostPosted: Thu Dec 09, 2010 12:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I was stuck by the unusual names here.
Incidentally the second man named is Gellatly
Surname GELLATLY
Firstname Thomas
Service Number 266620
Date Death 21/03/1918
Decoration
Place of birth Blairgowrie Perthshire
Other 6th Bn.
SNWM roll THE BLACK WATCH (ROYAL HIGHLANDERS)
Rank Pte
Theatre of death F.& F.

The brothers John and William Hill McQuattie, both of the Black Watch died only months apart in 1918
John 4/5th BW 27/5/1918, William 1/6th BW 24/3/1918.
(Am I correct that only John appears on the Bairgowrie WM?)
Only two other McQuatties are listed by CWGC
Alexander D. Fife & Forfar Yeomanry, 1/11/1915 b. Brechin
Robert, 1st BW 15/9/1914 b. Glasgow
I wonder if they were related?
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