The Scottish Military Research Group - Commemorations Project

David McNay · Last edited by David McNay on Tue Nov 15, 2022 10:38 am; edited 1 time in total

Munro & Co. Limited, Restalrig, Edinburgh
Current Location:Unknown
Number of WW1 Names: 6

I've placed this memorial in the "lost" section for the moment as I have been unable to establish much in the way of facts for this memorial.

Munro & Co were a textile firm who opened a factory in the Restalrig area of Edinburgh in 1899.

This postcard was purchased by me on Ebay recently. The seller had very little information on it and the postcard itself has nothing written on it. The photographer was a man named Alec Roberts and his studio was in Edinburgh.

If anyone has any other information on this memorial, or can confirm its current location, please let us know.

David McNay · Posted: Sun Dec 29, 2013 2:43 pm Post subject:

Pte John W Watson
4th Batt The Royal Scots
Killed in Gallipoli 28th May 1915

There are no matches on CWGC or SNWM for these details. Closest match is this man, out by one month:

WATSON, JOHN WILLIAM

Rank: Private
Service No: 2077
Date of Death: 28/06/1915
Regiment/Service: Royal Scots, 4th Bn.
Panel Reference Panel 26 to 30.
Memorial HELLES MEMORIAL

SNWM shows date of death as 28/6/1916, place of birth Edinburgh.

David McNay · Posted: Sun Dec 29, 2013 2:46 pm Post subject:

BLACK, ROBERT JAMES

Rank: Private
Service No: S/2674
Date of Death: 25/09/1915
Age: 22
Regiment/Service: Gordon Highlanders, 9th Bn.
Panel Reference Panel 115 to 119.
Memorial LOOS MEMORIAL

Additional Information: Son of Annie G. Black, of 3, Abbey Park, Pittenweem, Fife, and the late Robert F. Black, of Edinburgh.

David McNay · Posted: Sun Dec 29, 2013 2:49 pm Post subject:

CLARK, WALTER

Rank: Private
Service No: S/2673
Date of Death: 09/05/1916
Age: 24
Regiment/Service: Gordon Highlanders, 9th Bn.
Grave Reference III. G. 16.
Cemetery VERMELLES BRITISH CEMETERY

Additional Information: Son of Mrs. Helen Renwick, of County Hospital Lodge, Peebles. Native of Innerleithen, Peeblesshire.

Given the adjoining service numbers, it would appear that Robert Black and Walter Clark enlisted at the same time.

David McNay · Posted: Sun Dec 29, 2013 2:50 pm Post subject:

ORR, WILLIAM

Rank: Lance Corporal
Service No: 17197
Date of Death: 09/04/1917
Age: 30
Regiment/Service: Royal Scots, 15th Bn.
Grave Reference II. A. 9.
Cemetery POINT-DU-JOUR MILITARY CEMETERY, ATHIES

Additional Information: Son of David and Jessie Orr, of Jocks Lodge, Edinburgh.

David McNay · Posted: Sun Dec 29, 2013 2:52 pm Post subject:

WILSON, JOSEPH LINDSAY

Rank: Private
Service No: S/12843
Date of Death: 14/10/1917
Age: 24
Regiment/Service: Seaforth Highlanders, 7th Bn.
Grave Reference XI. F. 16.
Cemetery DOZINGHEM MILITARY CEMETERY

Additional Information: Son of Joseph and Margaret Wilson, of 35, James St., Pilrig, Edinburgh.

David McNay · Posted: Sun Dec 29, 2013 2:54 pm Post subject:

GREENAN, JOHN KEENAN

Rank: Private
Service No: 64702
Date of Death: 27/03/1918
Regiment/Service: Royal Army Medical Corps, 100th Field Amb
Grave Reference P. VI. H. 13A.
Cemetery ST. SEVER CEMETERY EXTENSION, ROUEN

Additional Information: Son of Helen Greenan, of Restalrig Village, Edinburgh.

Adam Brown · Posted: Sun Dec 29, 2013 6:22 pm Post subject:

The old Munro & Co. Factory is still in place in Loaning Mills, Restalrig, but the company was taken over by Kinloch Anderson in the 1970's and the factory closed in the 1980's.

Adam

stuartn · Joined: 13 Dec 2016 Posts: 2551

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