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DerekR Moderator
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Posted: Sat Nov 26, 2011 6:01 pm Post subject: Hawick - Pringle bronze - Wilton Parish Church |
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Bronze plaque in memory of 2nd Lt Walter Gerald PRINGLE.
UKNIWM Ref No. 44389
Name: PRINGLE, WALTER GERALD
Initials: W G
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Second Lieutenant
Regiment/Service: King's Own Scottish Borderers
Unit Text: 6th Bn.
Age: 24
Date of Death: 12/10/1917
Awards: Mentioned in Despatches
Additional information: Son of Robert and Edith Pringle, of Wood Norton, Hawick.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Sp. Mem. 5.
Cemetery: POELCAPELLE BRITISH CEMETERY
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Posted: Sat Nov 26, 2011 6:03 pm Post subject: |
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Posted: Sat Nov 26, 2011 6:04 pm Post subject: |
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DerekR Moderator
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Posted: Sat Nov 26, 2011 6:05 pm Post subject: |
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Bronze by Newbury A.Trent, 1919 _________________
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Posted: Sat Nov 26, 2011 7:53 pm Post subject: |
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would I be overstating the issue if I described this as an outstanding example of its kind?
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DerekR Moderator
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Posted: Sat Nov 26, 2011 9:31 pm Post subject: |
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Walter Gerald Pringle was a scion of the distinguished Scottish commercial entity 'Robert Pringle & Son', which later became the knitwear giants of "Pringles of Scotland"......
before the name was bought out with the loss of hundreds of Scottish jobs and transferred to Hong Kong
Walter was the only son of Robert Pringle and was heir to the family firm.
The family certainly had plenty of money and Newbury Abbot Trent, the sculpture of Gerald's bronze, did them proud.
Newbury A.Trent _________________
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