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DelBoy



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PostPosted: Wed Apr 22, 2009 11:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I wonder why the following never made it onto the Caputh memorial? Emigration ruling him out maybe?
I was hoping to find him on a memorial for a friend who's relation he is.

Name: ROBERTSON, ROBERT MENZIES
Initials: R M
Nationality: New Zealand
Rank: Gunner
Regiment/Service: New Zealand Artillery
Unit Text: 6 Field Regt.
Age: 37
Date of Death: 01/12/1941
Service No: 24751
Additional information: Son of Alexander Robertson and of Joan Robertson (nee Menzies), of Caputh, Perthshire, Scotland.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: 6. E. 4.
Cemetery: KNIGHTSBRIDGE WAR CEMETERY, ACROMA
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Adam Brown
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 22, 2009 11:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

DelBoy wrote:
I wonder why the following never made it onto the Caputh memorial?


Perhaps his parents moved to Caputh after the war and he was not a local?

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john burnett



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PostPosted: Fri Sep 18, 2009 6:07 pm    Post subject: Caputh Reply with quote

With reference to WW2 death LACI Taylor RAF - not yet identified.
Thanks to Jim Black for supplying the information.
"From the Blairgowrie Advertiser of 15 August 1941:

‘The first Caputh lad to pay the supreme sacrifice in the War is Leading Aircraftsman Ian Taylor. Intimation was received on Saturday by his parents Mr and Mrs Raymond Taylor to the effect that their son had died of burning injuries. 26 years of age, LAC Taylor joined the RAF before the outbreak of the war and was posted to a Middle East squadron early in 1940. He served his apprenticeship as a coach trimmer with the firm of McMurray & Archibald, Perth in whose employment he served six years. Eldest of the family of Mr and Mrs R Taylor, Caputh, he was born at Rattray and educated at Glendelvine School. The passing of such a promising young man has occasioned feelings of deep regret in the district.’



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PostPosted: Sat Sep 19, 2009 4:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

John/Jim

Thanks for posting the info on Ian Taylor - very interesting.

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PostPosted: Mon Sep 21, 2009 10:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

And here he is on CWGC

TAYLOR, JOHN
Rank: Leading Aircraftman
Regiment/Service: Royal Air Force
Unit Text: 113 Sqdn.
Age: 26
Date of Death: 08/08/1941
Service No: 649184
Additional information: Son of Raymond and Mary Elizabeth Taylor, of Caputh, Perthshire.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: XXIX. E. 8.
Cemetery: EL ALAMEIN WAR CEMETERY


A quick tip for searching for an Ian in Scotland. If you don't find him under I then look under J for John.

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dalblair



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PostPosted: Tue Oct 02, 2012 11:08 am    Post subject: Lord Charles Mercer Nairne Reply with quote

Lord Charles Mercer Nairne is apparently also commemorated in a stained glass window in St Mary`s Church,Calne,Wiltshire.
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 15, 2014 5:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Executed by Ramage & Cooper of Perth.
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