The Scottish Military Research Group - Commemorations Project

dhubthaigh · Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2007 5:08 pm Post subject: LUNAN

dhubthaigh · Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2007 5:12 pm Post subject:

I am posting this as the Lunan Parish Memorial. Yes, it has the 'Old Boys' of Lunan School on the front but the Men of Lunan on the rear.
I personally don't know of any other parish memorial but I am getting slightly out of my area and I'd love someone to come in and 'correct me'.

DelBoy · Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2008 9:46 pm Post subject:

This memorial is looking a lot better now after a clean.

DelBoy · Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2010 2:52 am Post subject: Memorial Transcription

Andrew Arbuthnott, Braehead
James Brown, Arbikie
Arthur W. Hendry, Lunan
David S. Hogg, Drumbertnot
George E. Hogg, Drumbertnot
John Jolly, Mountboy
David MacAulay, Denhead
George MacAulay, Denhead
James Pattullo, Arbikie
Arthur D. Taylor, Cothill
James Todd, Courthill
Alexander Watt, Drumbertnot
Alexander Wilson, Braehead

Adam Brown · Posted: Fri May 13, 2011 7:26 pm Post subject:

From Mark's comment was this originally in the civic section?

It is also on the BBC Doomsday Project website:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/domesday/dblock/GB-368000-750000/picture/3

Should this be in the school or civic section?

Regards

Adam

Jim · Joined: 30 May 2008 Posts: 195

There's a page here http://www.royalhighlanders.co.uk/lunan.htm with some more info.

spoons · Posted: Fri May 13, 2011 9:12 pm Post subject:

I believe this to be UKNIWM 5693 and therefore the parish (i.e. civic) memorial. My explanation for the inscription referring to the school is that (possibly) there was only ever one school for the parish and perhaps the initiative for the memorial came from someone connected to the school.

\Paul

Adam Brown · Posted: Sat May 14, 2011 6:40 am Post subject:

I have now moved this to the civic section and edited the title. There is still a link to it in the school section.

Thanks

Adam

graeme.ruxton · Joined: 26 Dec 2008 Posts: 52

Some interesting detail about the 1914-19 names can be found here:

http://www.ancestor.abel.co.uk/Angus/Lunan.html

The 1919 date is sadly apt, with the first name on the list dying in late February 1919.

The sculptors (Gibb Brothers of Aberdeen) are also credited with the memorials at Strachan and Parish of Nigg.

Lindsay · Joined: 29 Sep 2012 Posts: 108

MEMBER OF WELL-KNOWN ANGUS FAMILY
Lt.-Col. Hew Blair Imrie Killed In Action
Mrs Hew Blair Imrie, Fawsyde House, Kinneff, has received word that her husband, Lieut.-Colonel Hew Angus Christopher Blair Imrie, M.C., Black Watch, attached Gordon Highlanders, has been killed in action in Normandy.

Lieut.-Colonel Blair Imrie was the younger son of the late Lieut.-Colonel Hew Blair Imrie, C.M.G., O.B. E., and Mrs Blair Imrie, of Lunan, near Montrose.

He was 29, and five years ago married Miss Margaret Arbuthnott, cousin of Viscount Arbuthnott. There is a daughter born in 1940.

Prior to the war Lieut. Colonel Blair Imrie was at Valley Works, Brechin. He had been a Territorial since 1933, being captain in command of the Brechin company of the Black Watch when war broke out. He was educated at Stowe and Edinburgh Academy. He was wounded at Alamein. His chief interests were shooting and angling.
Evening Telegraph - Saturday 26 August 1944

anne park · Posted: Sun Feb 22, 2015 10:08 am Post subject: Andrew Arbuthnott Braehead

Arbuthnott Andrew L/cpl 266548 6th Gordon Highlanders b Benholm Age 32 Died F & F 22/02/1919 Son of James Arbuthnott, Anderson's Buildings, Inverkeilor, Montrose, & the late Mary (nee Alexander) Arbuthnott. 1891 Census: Hardgate, Benholm. 1901 Census: Braehead, Lunan: Father's Occ: Foreman Railway Surfaceman. Andrew's Occ: Farm Servant (General). 1911 Census: 2nd Bn Black Watch: India. B 1888. Native of Johnshaven, Montrose. Les Baraques Military Cemetery, Sangatte Fr 0065 Plot VIII Row E Grave 08 Dundee Courier 7-11-21 Page 3 Johnshaven Lunan & Lunan Scool.
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anne park · Posted: Sun Feb 22, 2015 10:13 am Post subject: Soldiers Effects on Ancestry

Name: Andrews Arbuthnott
Gender: Male
Death Date: 22 Feb 1919
Death Place: 30 Gen Hos Calais France
Rank: Lance Corporal
Regiment: Labour Corps
Regimental Number: 602705
Gives his Father's details: James. Sister: Christina. Maggie. & Brother James.
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