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spoons
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 Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2007 5:08 pm Post subject: L/CPL T E LAURIE, St Marys Church Dumfries |
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Not listed on UKNIWM
The memorial is inside St Marys church Dumfries at OS Map Ref: NX 975 763
Name: LAURIE, THOMAS EDWARDS
Initials: T E
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Lance Corporal
Regiment/Service: Highland Light Infantry
Unit Text: 9th (Glasgow Hds.) Bn.
Age: 20
Date of Death: 25/09/1917
Service No: 333088
Additional information: Son of James and Robina Laurie, of "Hollyhurst," Annan Rd., Dumfries.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 131 to 132.
Memorial: TYNE COT MEMORIAL
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DerekR
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I'm stretching it a bit here, but I wonder if he was any relation to the actor John Laurie who was born in Dumfries in 1897?
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spoons
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| Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2007 9:26 pm Post subject: |
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| DerekR wrote: | | I'm stretching it a bit here, but I wonder if he was any relation to the actor John Laurie who was born in Dumfries in 1897? |
Well John Paton Laurie (actor) in 1901 was living with his family at 14 St Andrews Street whereas Thomas Edwards Laurie was living with his mother described as head of family but married (!) at 86 Queen Street. Any family connection would have to be at least one generation further back. Good guess though, the church with the memorial to Thomas is only a few minutes walk from the Academy that John attended. |
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Kenneth Morrison
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Thomas Edwards Laurie – age 20 – Lance Corporal (6358 & 333088) 1/9th (Glasgow Highlanders) Battalion, Highland Light Infantry.
Thomas worked in his father's live-stock auctioneers business. He enlisted in the Lanarkshire Yeomanry in 1916 and was posted to the HLI in the November.
Born 1897 in Dumfries. Son of James and Robina Laurie of "Hollyhurst," Annan Road, Dumfries.
Missing in Action on 25 September 1917 and named on the Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium.
Also named on the Dumfries Academy Memorial, on an individual memorial in St. Mary's Church in Dumfries and on the church memorial.
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