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PostPosted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 11:56 pm    Post subject: East Linton, East Lothian Reply with quote

East Linton & Prestonkirk Parish War Memorial
Location: Memorial Park
OS Ref: NT 589 772

The memorial park in East Linton is tucked away down a side street. Look out for a small arrow saying 'Memorial Park' at the entrance of School Road off the High Street.









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PostPosted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 11:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

A small plaque at the rear of the obelisk.



The park is signposted as the Memorial Park but there is nothing at the memorial or the park entrance to indicate whether it is a war memorial park.

If it is here's a photograph of it from beside the memorial

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PostPosted: Sat Jan 19, 2013 9:16 am    Post subject: Pte. John Fraser Reply with quote

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John Fraser

(Glasgow Herald 24th April 1915)
"News has been received by his sister, who resides in Galashiels, of the death of Private John Fraser, of the 8th Royal Scots. A native of Prestonkirk, he was among the first Territorials sent to France, and along with others he exchanged greetings with the German soldiers in the trenches at Christmas time."

CWGC
FRASER, J
Rank: Private
Service No: 1117
Date of Death: 09/04/1915
Regiment/Service: Royal Scots 8th Bn.
Grave Reference: II. D. 28.
Cemetery: RUE-DU-BOIS MILITARY CEMETERY, FLEURBAIX

SNWM
Surname: FRASER
Firstname: John
Service Number: 1117
Date Death: 09/04/1915
Place of birth: East Linton
Other: 8th Bn.
SNWM roll: THE ROYAL SCOTS (LOTHIAN REGIMENT)
Rank: Pte
Theatre of death: F.& F.
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 19, 2013 11:03 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I wonder when Andrew Combe's name was added and why it was "missed" ?

COMBE, ANDREW.
Rank:Lance Corporal
Service No:3051830
Date of Death:Between 26/05/1940 and 27/05/1940
Age:36
Regiment/Service:Royal Scots
1st Bn.
Grave Reference1. A. 5.
CemeteryLE PARADIS WAR CEMETERY, LESTREM
Additional Information:
Son of Andrew and Mary Jane Combe; husband of Maria Walker Riding Flockhart Combe, of East Linton, East Lothian.

This cemetery contains the remains of men from the 2nd Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment murdered by members of the 2nd SS Regiment in May 1940. See CWGC notes.
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 19, 2013 2:19 pm    Post subject: Memorial Transcription Reply with quote

IN HONOURED MEMORY OF THE MEN OF
EAST LINTON & PARISH OF PRESTONKIRK
WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE GREAT WAR

Adam Johnston
Alex. C, Greig
Alex. Lawrence
Alex. Lockhart
Alex. Pennycook
Alex. K. Walker
George Greirson
George Laing
George White
Gideon Watt
James Beveridge
James Campbell
James Docherty
James Fraser
James C. Sandie
James A. Tait
James Walker
J.C. Blackhall
John Craig
John Fraser
John Hume
John Logan
John C. McPhail
John Reid
John Morie
John A. Tait
John Wilson
Kenneth Mills
Robert G.E. Stewart
Thomas Aitken
Thomas Greig
Thomas Murdoch
William Aitken
William Currie
William Hood
William S. Logan
William Thomson
William H. White

IN HONOURED MEMORY OF THE MEN OF
EAST LINTON & PARISH OF PRESTONKIRK
WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE SECOND
WORLD WAR

Alexander W. Mason
David A. Polson
Duncan B. Stewart
George A. McLennan
George M. Munro
John H. Logan
Kenneth L. McLennan
Peter MacFarlane
Robert Taylor
Robert S. Faichen
Taylor Scambler
Thomas W. Briggs
Thomas A. Brown
William Craig
Andrew Combe

"THEY DIED THAT WE MIGHT LIVE"
1939 1945
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 07, 2013 11:40 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

MACFARLANE, PETER.
Rank:Lance Corporal
Service No:3194351
Date of Death:18/09/1944
Age:28
Regiment/Service:King's Own Scottish Borderers 7th (Airborne) Bn.
Grave Reference23. A. 2.
Cemetery ARNHEM OOSTERBEEK WAR CEMETERY
Additional Information:
Son of Donald and Jeannie Macfarlane, of East Linton, East Lothian.

Killed on the 2nd day of the Battle of Arnhem.
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LAWRENCE, A S

Rank: Private
Service No: 325767
Date of Death: 12/10/1917
Age: 36
Regiment/Service: Royal Scots, 9th Bn.
Grave Reference: I. B. 47.
Cemetery: WANCOURT BRITISH CEMETERY
Additional Information: Son of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence, of Hawick; husband of Jessie Forrest Lawrence, of 26, Trinity St., Hawick, Roxburghshire.
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THOMAS AITKEN
Thomas Aitken – age 22 – Private (857) 1/8th Battalion, Royal Scots.
Thomas was a member of the local Territorial 8th Royal Scots and he was mobilised in August 1914. He landed with his battalion at Le Havre in November 1914 but he contracted scarlet fever and died in the 7th Casualty Clearing Station at Merville.
Born 1893 in Prestonkirk. Son of the late John Aitken (died 1908) and of Jane (Elder) Aitken of Traprain, Prestonkirk and of Westfield Farm, West Calder, Midlothian.
Died on Active Service on 26 April 1915 and buried in Merville Communal Cemetery, France

and his brother

WILLIAM AITKEN

William Aitken – age 26 – Lance Corporal (40099) 10th/11th Battalion, Highland Light Infantry.
William was also a member of the local Territorial 8th Royal Scots as Private (858) but he does not seem to have been mobilised for overseas service until he was posted to the HLI in France. He was buried in Blangy Military Cemetery but he was re-interred in April 1924.
Born 1891 in Prestonkirk. Son of the late John Aitken (died 1908) and of Jane (Elder) Aitken of Traprain, Prestonkirk and of Westfield Farm, West Calder, Midlothian.
Died of Wounds on 13 April 1917 and buried in Cabaret-Rouge British Cemetery, Souchez, France.


JAMES BEVERIDGE
Note: most military records have his name as Beverage.
James Beveridge, Military Medal – age 22 – Private (10363) 1st Battalion, Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)
In 1901 James Chalmers was living with his grandparents Alexander and Mary Chalmers at the Temperance Hotel in Haddington and in 1911 James Beverage was a “Boy Soldier” aged 17 serving with his battalion in South Africa. At the outbreak of war they were at Maryhill Barracks in Glasgow and they landed at Le Havre on 15 August 1914. James was awarded a M.M. in 1916.
Born December 1893 in Haddington, East Lothian as James Beveridge Chalmers. Son of Mary Jane (Chalmers) Tait who married Thomas Bruce Tait in 1899 in Dunbar. They lived at Brown's Place, East Linton, Prestonkirk.
Missing in Action on 18 August 1916 and named on the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme, France.
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J.C. BLACKHALL
Thought to be:
James Blackhall – age 20 – Private (40812) 1st Battalion, Royal Scots Fusiliers.
The family were in East Linton, Prestonkirk in 1901 and 1911 but they had moved to Inveresk Road in Musselburgh by the time James, a grocer, enlisted as Private (1851) in the 2/8th Royal Scots in East Linton in November 1915. He was posted to the 1st RSF in France in October 1916.
Born 1896 in Dunbar, East Lothian. Son of John Cleland Blackhall and Mary (Lockhart) Blackhall of East Linton, Prestonkirk and of 11 Monktonhall Terrace, Musselburgh, Edinburgh.
Missing in Action o 3 May 1917 and named on the Arras Memorial, France.


JAMES CAMPBELL
James Campbell – age 20 – Lance Corporal (325106) 1/8th Battalion, Royal Scots.
James was a member of the local Territorial 8th Royal Scots and he was mobilised in August 1914. As Private (845) he landed with the 1/8th Battalion at Le Havre in November 1914.
Born 1897 in Prestonkirk. Son of the late Elizabeth Gilles (MacKenzie) Campbell (died 1904) and of David Campbell of Edinburgh.
Missing in Action on 12 April 1918 and named on the Ploegsteert Memorial, Belgium.


JOHN CRAIG
John Craig – age 38 – Private (24037) 11th Battalion, Royal Scots.
John was a gardener living at Mill Wynd, East Linton, Prestonkirk when he enlisted in December 1915. He was mobilised in March 1916 and posted to his battalion in France in March 1917 but he was killed less than three months later.
Born 1879 in Prestonkirk. Son of James and Elizabeth Ann (Logan) Craig of Mill Wynd, East Linton. Husband of Alexandrina Gear (Gordon) Craig of East Bearford, Haddington and of Lochhouses. Prestonkirk who he married in June 1916 in Haddington.
Missing in Action on 7 June 1917 and named on the Arras Memorial, France.


WILLIAM CURRIE
William Currie – age 25 – Private (12054) 1st Battalion, Scots Guards.
William joined his battalion in France in April 1915.
Born 1893 in Borthwick, Midlothian. Son of Alexander and Annie (Scott) Currie of Prestonkirk.
Died of Wounds on 27 March 1918 and buried in Bucquoy Road Cemetery, Ficheux, France.
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JAMES DOCHERTY
James Docherty – age 18 – Private (17611) 15th Battalion (1st Edinburgh) Royal Scots.
James was a farm servant at North Belton, West Barns, Dunbar when he enlisted in September 1914 claiming to be almost 20 years old. He landed with his battalion at Le Havre in January 1916 but he was killed six months later on the first day of the battle of the Somme.
Born 1897 at Overhailes, East Linton in Prestonkirk. Son of the late Mary Ann (McKenna) Docherty (died 1901 in Prestonkirk) and of Patrick Docherty of Waughleton, Prestonkirk, of East Peaston, Ormiston, and of West Saltoun, Pencaitland, East Lothian.
Missing in Action on 1 July 1916 and named on the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme, France.


JAMES FRASER
James Fraser – age 32 – Corporal (7647) 7th Battalion, Royal Scots Fusiliers.
James had served his apprenticeship as a joiner with his father in East Linton. He enlisted in Glasgow and landed with his battalion at Boulogne in July 1915 but he was killed two months late during the battle of Loos.
Born 1883 in East Linton, Prestonkirk. Son of John Anderson Fraser and of Joahnna or Joan (Kitchen) Fraser.
Missing in Action on 26 September 1915 and named on the Loos Memorial, France.

and his brother

JOHN FRASER

John Fraser – age 37 – Private (1117) 1/8th Battalion, Royal Scots.
John was a stone mason and a member of the Territorial 8th Royal Scots. He landed with the 1/8th Battalion at Le Havre in November 1914.
Born 1878 in East Linton, Prestonkirk. Son of John Anderson Fraser and of Joahnna or Joan (Kitchen) Fraser.
Killed in Action on 9 April 1915 and buried in Rue-Du-Bois Military Cemetery, Fleurbaix, France.

Their youngest brother Richard served as Private (6924) in the 28th Battalion, Australian Infantry from May 1916. He survived the war and returned to Australia in October 1919.
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ALEX. C. GREIG
Alexander Campbell Greig – age 24 – Lance Corporal (957) 1/8th Battalion, Royal Scots.
Alexander joined the local Territorial 8th Royal Scots in December 1913. He was mobilised in August 1914 and landed with the 1/8th Battalion at Le Havre in November 1914. He was discharged from the army due to illness and awarded a Silver War Badge (140588) in November 1916. Alexander died of tuberculosis at his mother's home in the Rodger's Buildings in East Linton, Prestonkirk.
Born 1894 in Newburgh, Fife. Son of the late Thomas Robb Greig of Marklegates, Prestonkirk (died 1907) and of Margaret (Campbell) Greig of Alexander, Manitoba, Canada.
Died on 13 September 1919 and buried in Prestonkirk Parish Churchyard. (CWG)

and buried with him his brother

THOMAS GREIG

Thomas Greig – age 20 – Driver (T2/015243) Army Service Corps.
Thomas was a vanman when he enlisted at East Linton in October 1914. He went to France in July 1915 but he became ill in October and was evacuated home to the Sanatorium at Haddington. He was discharged from the army in March 1916 and he died of tuberculosis at Springbank Cottage, East Linton, Prestonkirk.
Born 1896 at Collessie, Fife. Son of the late Thomas Robb Greig of Marklegates, Prestonkirk (died 1907) and of Margaret (Campbell) Greig of Alexander, Manitoba, Canada.
Died on 27 February 1917 and buried in Prestonkirk Parish Churchyard. (CWG)


GEORGE GRIERSON
George Grierson – age 33 – Private (12053) 1st Battalion, Scots Guards.
George enlisted in East Linton and joined his battalion in France in May 1915 but he was killed four months later during the battle of Loos.
Born 1882 in Haddington as George Robertson Grierson. Son of the late Mary (Robertson) Grierson (died 1900) and of Charles Grierson of Phantassie, East Linton, Prestonkirk.
Missing in Action on 27 September 1915 and named on the Loos Memorial, France.
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WILLIAM HOOD
William Hood – age 20 – Corporal (26276) 13th Battalion, Royal Scots.
William joined the 11th Royal Scots in France in December 1915. At some point he transferred to the 2nd Battalion and then to the 13th.
Born 1896 in Garvald, Haddingtonshire/East Lothian. Son of the late William Hood (died 1909) and of Agnes (Brotherston) Hood of Prestonmains, Prestonkirk.
Killed in Action on 10 July 1917 and buried in Brandhoek Military Cemetery, Belgium.
Also named on the Whitekirk and Tyninghame Parish War Memorial in East Lothian.


JOHN HUME
John Hume – age 34 – Lance Corporal (40890) 17th Battalion, Highland Light Infantry.
John served his apprenticeship as a joiner in Dunbar. He and his family were at East Linton, Prestonkirk when he enlisted. He was posted as Private (2279) to the Royal Scots in France and was transferred to the HLI.
Born 1882 in Dunbar as John Denholm. Son of John and Jane Nelson (Denholm) Hume who married in 1884 in Dunbar. Husband of Elizabeth (Logan) Hume who he married in 1905 in Prestonkirk.
Missing in Action on 3 March 1917 and named on the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme, France.


ADAM JOHNSTON
Adam Johnston – age 21 – Guardsman (17355) 1st Battalion, Scots Guards.
Adam was a railway surfaceman when he enlisted in the Reserve Household Battalion in March 1916. He was mobilised as Private (3303) in July 1917 and transferred to the Scots Guards in January 1918. He went to France and joined his battalion in April 1918 but was wounded in August and evacuated to the War Hospital in Sunderland. Adam was transferred to the Army Reserve in February 1919 and he died of encephalitis in Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.
Born 1898 in Edrom, Berwickshire. Son of Robert and Margaret Huggan (Patterson) Johnston of Preston Cottages and of Markle Mains, Prestonkirk.
Died on 4 December 1919 and buried in Prestonkirk Parish Churchyard. (CWG)
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GEORGE LAING
George Laing – age 24 – Second Lieutenant, 9th Battalion, Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)
George was a Student of the Arts at Edinburgh University when he enlisted as Private (1702) in the 3/8th Royal Scots in February 1915. He was commissioned in the Cameronians in September 1915 and he joined his battalion in France in August 1916.
Born 1893 in Prestonkirk. Son of the late Alexander Laing (died 1901) and of Marion (Forrest) Laing of Lauder House, Prestonkirk.
Died of Wounds on 10 April 1917 and buried in Aubigny Communal Cemetery Extension, France.
Also named on the Edinburgh University Old College memorial and the Roll of the Fallen.


ALEX. LAWRENCE
Alexander Sutherland Lawrence – age 36 – Private (325767) 1/9th (Highlanders) Battalion, Royal Scots.
Alexander served his apprenticeship in Hawick, Roxburghshire and he was a baker at the the High Street for about 16 years. He was employed and living at Brown's Place, East Linton, Prestonkirk when he enlisted in November 1915. He was mobilised as Private (2277) in the 8th Royal Scots in May 1916 and posted to the 1/9th Battalion in France in August 1917 but he was killed less than two months later.
Born 1881 in Wilton, Hawick. Son of James and Jane (Sutherland) Lawrence of Lothian Street, Hawick. Husband of Jessie Cook (Forrest) Lawrence of Noble Place and of Trinity Street, Hawick who he married in 1906 in Hawick.
Killed in Action on 12 October 1917 and buried in Wancourt British Cemetery, France.
Also named on the Hawick Burgh Roll of Honour and on the St. Margaret's Church memorial in Hawick.


ALEX. LOCKHART
Alexander Lockhart – age 32 – Gunner (69042) 66th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery.
In 1901 Alexander was a golf caddie, living with his brother Norman in North Berwick, East Lothian. The 66th Siege Battery went to France in March 1916. Norman died in the 2nd ANZAC Main Dressing Station in Ypres.
Born 1885 in North Berwick. Son of the late Alexander Lockhart formerly of North Berwick and of Whitekirk, East Lothian and of the late Janet (McDonald) Lockhart (died 1914 in Prestonkirk) His sister Ann Keddie (Lockhart) Logan of Prestonkirk was named as his legatee.
Died of Wounds on 4 October 1917 and buried in White House Cemetery, St. Jean-Les-Ypres, Belgium.
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JOHN LOGAN
John Logan – age 32 – Private (38442) 12th Battalion, Royal Scots.
John was a postman in East Linton.
Born 1886 in East Linton, Prestonkirk. Son of the late Helen (Bryson) Logan (died 1905) and of the late David Logan (died1912) formerly of Brown's Place, East Linton. Husband of Margaret (Hunter) Logan of Main Street, East Linton who he married in 1909 in East Linton.
Died of Wounds on 15 October 1918 and buried in Duhallow A.D.S. Cemetery, Belgium.
His son, John Hunter Logan, Private (2885202) Royal Army Medical Corps died in February 1942 and is named on the WW2 panel of the memorial.


WILLIAM S. LOGAN
William Stenhouse Logan – age 29 – Private (202663) 4th Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders.
Born 1888 in Gladsmuir, Haddingtonshire/East Lothian.
Son of Peter and Agnes (Stenhouse) Logan of Prestonkirk. Husband of Helen (Campbell) Logan who he married in 1915 in Athelstaneford, East Lothian.
Missing in Action on 4 December 1917 and named on the Cambrai Memorial, Louverval, France.


KENNETH MILLS
Kenneth MacAulay Mills – age 19 – Private (40798) 11th Battalion, Royal Scots.
Born 1898 in Cranston, Midlothian. Son of George and Isabella (MacAulay) Mills of Preston, Prestonkirk.
Killed in Action on 5 April 1917 and buried in St. Nicolas British Cemetery, Arras, France.


THOMAS MURDOCH
Thomas John Murdoch – age 22 – Private (1532) 1/8th Battalion, Royal Scots.
Thomas was a chauffeur at Smeaton House, East Linton, Prestonkirk when he enlisted and he joined his battalion in France in February 1915.
Born 1894 in Elgin, in Moray. Son of the late Thomas Murdoch and of Elizabeth Dow (Webster) Murdoch of 31 Seafield Street, Portsoy, Banffshire.
Died of Wounds on 23 July 1916 and buried in Warloy-Baillon Communal Cemetery Extension, France.
His brother James Webster Murdoch was a groom at Knowes, East Linton when he accidentally drowned in the River Tyne below East Linton in August 1909.
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JOHN C. MCPHAIL
John Colin McPhail – age 24 – Private (43793) 12th Battalion, Royal Scots.
Born 1893 in Cardross, Dunbartonshire. Son of Archibald and Marion (Logan) McPhail of Lauder Place, Prestonkirk.
Killed in Action on 1 October 1918 and buried in Tyne Cot Cemetery, Belgium.


ALEX. PENNYCOOK
Alexander Pennycook – age 21 – Lance Corporal (43082) 12th Battalion, Royal Scots.
Alexander was a Student of the Arts at Edinburgh University when he enlisted as Private (1852) in the 3/8th Royal Scots in November 1915. He went to France in August 1916 and he was was posted to the 12th Battalion in September. Alexander became a prisoner of war at Kemmel Hill in April 1918 and died of pneumonia at the camp at Saaralbe.
Born 1896 in Leith, Edinburgh. Son of Alexander and Elizabeth (Tod) Pennycook of Phantassie Orchard, Prestonkirk.
Died on Service on 16 October 1918 and buried in Sarralbe Military Cemetery, France.
Also named on the Edinburgh University Old College memorial and the Roll of the Fallen.


JOHN REID
John Elliot Reid – age 23 – Private (12176) 1st Battalion, Scots Guards.
John assisted his father at Hailes Mill, East Linton, Prestonkirk until he enlisted in November 1914. He joined his battalion in France in May 1915 and fought at Loos where he was wounded in September. He was gassed and evacuated home in July 1917, rejoining his battalion in September, but he was killed a month later at Poelcappele.
Born 1894 in Whitekirk, Haddingtonshire/East Lothian. Son of Andrew and Jane Hubback (Jackson) Reid of Hailes Mill, East Linton and of Middlepark, Bridge of Cally, Blairgowrie, Perthshire.
Killed in Action on 9 October 1917 and buried in Tyne Cot Cemetery, Belgium.


JAMES C. SANDIE
James Cheape Sandie – age 24 – Private (S/14203) 7th Battalion, Cameron Highlanders.
James landed with his battalion at Boulogne in July 1915 but he was killed two months later during the battle of Loos.
Born 1891 in East Linton, Prestonkirk. Son of Mark James Sandie and of Margaret (Wintrup) Sandie of Lynton Cottage, East Linton.
Missing in Action on 25 September 1915 and named on the Loos Memorial, France.
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