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PostPosted: Thu Aug 11, 2011 10:58 pm    Post subject: Pte. (Drummer) Terris/Tyras Lawson Reply with quote

jamiemcginlay wrote:
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LAWSON TERRIS BLACK WATCH DRUMMER


The unusual forename stood out. SNWM spell it Tyras, CWGC only have the initial.
The only Terras/Tyras Lawson to die according to the war returns was in 1918 aged 28. The only Terras Lawson (there are none called Tyras) born in Scotland was in Edinburgh in 1892, which if the same person would make him approximately 26 when he died.

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Name: LAWSON
Initials: T
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)
Unit Text: 1st/6th Bn.
Date of Death: 29/07/1918
Service No: 202268
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: XVII. A. 6.
Cemetery: TERLINCTHUN BRITISH CEMETERY, WIMILLE

SWNM
Surname: LAWSON
Firstname: Tyras
Service Number: 202268
Date Death: 29/07/1918
Place of birth: Scoonie Fife
Other: 6th Bn.
SNWM roll: THE BLACK WATCH (ROYAL HIGHLANDERS)
Rank: Pte
Theatre of death: F.& F.


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PostPosted: Thu Nov 17, 2011 9:11 am    Post subject: Pte. Alexander Murray Reply with quote

jamiemcginlay wrote:
WWI ROLL OF HONOUR:
MURRAY ALEXANDER PRIVATE THE ROYAL SCOTS (LOTHIAN REGIMENT)


(Glasgow Herald 28th of September 1914)
"The first Leven man to lose his life at the front was Alexander Murray, of the Scots Guards, who was killed in action on August 26th. He was a reervist and served eight years in India. He worked at Dourie Foundry, Leven, before being called up. He was unmarried, and resided with his mother at Anderson Street, Leven."

The newspaper has the regiment wrong, they got the "Scots" bit in title right though.

CWGC
Name: MURRAY, ALEXANDER
Initials: A
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Royal Scots
Unit Text: 2nd Bn.
Date of Death: 26/08/1914
Service No: 8358
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Memorial: LA FERTE-SOUS-JOUARRE MEMORIAL

SNWM
Surname: MURRAY
Firstname: Alexander
Service Number: 8358
Date Death: 26/08/1914
Place of birth: Leven Fife
Other: 2nd Bn.
SNWM roll: THE ROYAL SCOTS (LOTHIAN REGIMENT)
Rank: Pte
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 29, 2012 3:09 pm    Post subject: Pte. James johnstone Reply with quote

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BLACK WATCH
Pte. James Johnstone

(Glasgow herald 18th March 1915)
"The friends of Private James Johnston (3427), C company, 1st Black Watch, have been notified that he was killed in action on 11th inst. , dying instantly from a gunshot wound in the head. He was a national reservist, 38 years of age, a joiner to trade, and the only surviving son of Mr James Johnston, Leslie, who recently removed to Leven."

CWGC
JOHNSTONE, J
Rank: Private
Service No: 3/3427
Date of Death: 11/03/1915
Regiment/Service: Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) 1st Bn.
Grave Reference: II. E. 9.
Cemetery: LE TOURET MILITARY CEMETERY, RICHEBOURG-L'AVOUE

SNWM
Surname: JOHNSTONE
Firstname: James
Service Number: 3/3437 (3/3427)Date Death: 11/03/1915
Place of birth: Leslie Fife
Other: 1st Bn.
SNWM roll: THE BLACK WATCH (ROYAL HIGHLANDERS)
Rank: Pte


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PostPosted: Sun May 20, 2012 6:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Name: Colin Clow
Rank: Private
Service Number: 18207
Unit: 1st Battalion
Regiment: Hampshire Regiment
Date of Birth: 1886 - Inverkeithing
Date of Death: 1st July 1916
Son of late David Clow from Inverkeithing and Mrs Stoddart from Leven
Commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial


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PostPosted: Wed Apr 24, 2013 5:08 pm    Post subject: old postcard Reply with quote

Although the memorial hasn't moved, it has been raised on to a platform. The WW2 panels and wall have been added since this postcard was made as well as the garden that surrounds the memorial.





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PostPosted: Fri Jan 02, 2015 12:23 pm    Post subject: Robert Buntine Reply with quote

Robert Buntine Second Lieutenant S/11299 8th/10th Bn. Gordon Highlanders b Dunfermline Age 33 Died of Wounds Pas de Calais, France 31/03/1918 Son of Mrs. and the late Hugh Patrick Buntine, of Leven, Fifeshire. Wimereux Communal Cemetery Fr 0064 Plot IV Row E Grave 01
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 02, 2015 12:25 pm    Post subject: John Nairn Reply with quote

John Nairn L/Cpl S/9392 6th Gordon Highlanders b Scourie,Fife e Leven Died F&F 28/07/1918 Son of Mrs. Agnes Nairn, of Beech Holm, Glenlyon Rd., Leven, Fifeshire. Lille Southern Cemetery Fr 1027 Plot III Row C Grave 21
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 02, 2015 12:30 pm    Post subject: Robert Morris Reply with quote

Robert Morris Pte S/20566 6/7th Gordon Highlanders b Beith,Fife e Kirkcaldy Killed in Action F&F 14/10/1918 Avesnes-Le-Sec Communal Cemetery Extension Fr 0271 Row B Grave 25
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 02, 2015 12:32 pm    Post subject: James Ness Reply with quote

James Ness Pte S/11378 1st Gordon Highlanders b Scoonie, Fife e Aberdeen Age 28 Killed in Action F & F 18/08/1916 Brother of Mrs Bella Thomson, Wilkie Terr; Durward St; Leven, Fife. Thiepval Memorial M. R. 21 Pier 15B & 15C
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 02, 2015 12:35 pm    Post subject: James L Ross Reply with quote

James L Ross Pte S/11377 1st Gordon Highlanders b Old Aberdeen e Kirkcaldy Age 23 Killed in Action F & F 08/08/1916 Son of Mrs E Gordon Highlanders Ross, 6 Lemon Terr; Leven, Fife & the late William M Ross. Soldiers Will 4 Pages. Carnoy Military Cemetery Fr 0513 Row M Grave 37 PJ 26-09-1925 : Supp page 18 Line 4
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 02, 2015 12:37 pm    Post subject: Alexander B Walker Reply with quote

Alexander B Walker Pte S/42370 6th Gordon Highlanders b Leven,Fife e Perth Age 18 Killed in Action F&F 28/07/1918 Son of Robert and Isabella Cassels Walker, of Swinton Buildings, Leven. Soldiers Will 4 Pages. Courmas British Cemetery Fr 1690 Plot II Row F Grave 6
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 02, 2015 12:39 pm    Post subject: Walter Strachan RE Reply with quote

Walter Strachan Spr 50089 54th Royal Engineers (Field Coy)b Bervie e Edinburgh r Leven Age 34 Killed in Action F & F 02/10/1915 Son of John & Jane Strachan. 1881 Census: 75 King St; age 1mo. 1891 Census: Bervie: 104 High St; 1901 Census: Franell: Fethie Smithy Cottage: Occ: Servant. Husband of Mary Strachan, 2, Rosebery Terrace, Leven, Fife. Loos Memorial M. R. 19 Panel 4 & 5 Laurencekirk & Scoonie
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PostPosted: Sat May 28, 2016 4:47 pm    Post subject: Alexander B Walker GH Reply with quote

Alexander B Walker Pte S/42370 6th Gordon Highlanders b Leven, Fife e Perth Age 18 Killed in Action F&F 28/07/1918 Son of Robert and Isabella Cassels Walker, of Swinton Buildings, Leven. Soldiers Will 4 Pages. Courmas British Cemetery Fr 1690 Plot II Row F Grave 6 The Scotsman 04-09-18 P7: Leven. Scoonie - Fife
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 11, 2018 3:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

LIEUTENANT ARTHUR MCLEAN BELL BLACK WATCH

Also named on the Glencairn Parish War Memorial in Moniaive, Dumfriesshire as:

LIEUT. ARTHUR BELL.
Arthur McLean Bell – age 29 – Lieutenant, Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) attached to the 1st Battalion, Gordon Highlanders.
Arthur had been educated at Dumfries Academy and had taken a position in Sumatra in the Dutch East Indies. He was commissioned in the Black Watch in October 1915 and he was a Second Lieutenant in the 11th (Reserve) Battalion, Black Watch at Hippswell Camp Richmond Yorkshire when he married that month, as Arthur McLean Bell.
Born 1888 in Moniaive, Glencairn as Arthur Bell. Son of the late John Proudfoot Bell and of Mary (McLean) Bell of Glencairn. Husband of Martha (McKinney) Bell of St. Vigeans, Leven, Fife. and of 73 Falcon Road, Edinburgh who he married in 1915 in Dingwall, Ross and Cromarty.
Killed in Action on 20 May 1918 and buried in Sandpits British Cemetery, Fouquereuil, France.
Also named on the Dumfries Academy memorial.
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 11, 2018 8:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

WMR has now been updated, and the WW2 part taken out to a new report 80787 (which will be fully written in the next few days).

There are also 4 seats beside the memorial, which are WMR 8526 to 8529.

I will try to bottom out the mystery 5740, which seems to be based on a postcard.
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