The Scottish Military Research Group - Commemorations Project

dhubthaigh · Posted: Wed Jul 31, 2013 4:17 pm Post subject: Royal Engineers, WW1

Within St. Nicholas Church;

anne park · Posted: Tue May 19, 2015 3:01 pm Post subject: One of the officers

James Meston Reid Major MiD Royal Engineers b Aberdeen 09/02/1891 Age 27 Died of illness Archangel 06/11/1918 Son of Walter Reid, CA. City Roll of Honour: Woodbank, Pitfodels. Aberdeen Grammar School RoH & page 365. Roll of Service in the Great War: page 104: photo. Register of Voters 15 May 1919 Page 101. Archangel Allied Cemetery, Russia Eur 179 Sp Mem B.05 EE 19-11-18 Page 2 : RoH Aberdeen Weekly Journal 29-11-18 Page 5: Photo City Cults & Grammar
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anne park · Posted: Tue May 19, 2015 3:03 pm Post subject: Another RE Officer

Wilfred Gordon Wilson Capt MBE Royal Engineers Age 35 Died of Influenza Dar-Es-Salaam 10/12/1918 Son of Charles Wilson, 4 Skene Pl; Aberdeen. Aberdeen Grammar School page 472. City Roll of Honour: 11 Henry Rd; Finsbury Park, London. Husband of Dorothy M Wilson, The Anchorage, Church Square, Haddenham, Bucks. Dar Es Salaam (Upanga Road) Cemetery, Tanzania E. A. 36 Plot II Row D Grave 3 City & Grammar
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anne park · Posted: Tue May 19, 2015 3:05 pm Post subject: Lt RE

James Phillips Lt 203rd Royal Engineers Age 25 Killed in Action F & F 01/11/1918 Son of George Phillips, Crieff. Husband of Caroline Angus Phillips, 36 Wallfield Cres; Aberdeen. City Roll of Honour: 111 Mile-end Ave; Officers Book page 210. Bedford House Cemetery Enclosure No 4 B 167 Plot XIII Row J Grave 2 EE 09-11-18 Page 2 RoH Aberdeen Weekly Journal 06-12-18 Page 5: Photo City
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anne park · Posted: Tue May 19, 2015 3:06 pm Post subject: Lt RE

John Ernest Dudley Wallace Lt Royal Engineers b Aberdeen 17/03/1889 e Vancouver Age 28 Died of Wounds F & F 07/08/1917 Son of John Wallace, Millbank, 139 Hardgate, Aberdeen. Joined Canadians Occ: Civil Engineer. City Roll of Honour. 2nd HFC. 1891 Census: 53 George St: Mother Elsie. Dozinghem Military Cemetery B 016 Plot III Row B Grave 14 ADJ 09-08-17 1/1
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anne park · Posted: Tue May 19, 2015 3:08 pm Post subject: 2nd Lt RE

Alexander McLean Maitland 2nd Lt 1st/2nd Royal Engineers (Highland Field Co) Age 27 Killed in Action F & F 02/08/1916 4th son of the late John Maitland & Margatet Leask Maitland, East Balhalgardy, Inverurie. City Roll of Honour: 19 Stanley St. Inverurie Bass MI 465 : Brother Robert NZ KiA 29-8-18 Age 35. Norfolk Cemetery, Becordel-Becourt Fr 0189 Plot I Row D Grave 108 ADJ 07-08-16 Page 3 & 4 Chapel of Garioch City & Inverurie & Inverurie UF
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anne park · Posted: Tue May 19, 2015 3:11 pm Post subject: T/Capt RE

Lynedoch Archibald MacKenzie Lt (T/Capt) Royal Engineers attd 1st East Lancs Age 31 Died of Wounds Gallipoli 19/10/1915 Son of Donald MacKenzie, WS 12 Gt Stuart St; Edinburgh. To What End Did They Die: Page: Page 163. born 1884. Husband of Elizabeth Mary Dorothy Yates MacKenzie, Buglawton Hall, Congleton, Cheshire. Educated at Loretto & Edinburgh Univeristy. Helles Memorial, Turkey M. R. 04 Panel 23 to 25 or 325 to 328 Loretto School
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anne park · Posted: Tue May 19, 2015 3:12 pm Post subject: Capt RE

Douglas Christian Watson Capt Order of St Sava Royal Engineers b Aberdeen 15/05/1884 Age 32 Died of Paratyphoid Athens 16/06/1916 Son of Jane Smart (nee Pirie) Watson, 138 Hamilton Pl; Aberdeen & the late George Watson. City Roll of Honour. Aberdeen Grammar School RoH & page 455. 1891 Census: 57 Schoolhill: Aberdeen. 1901 Census: 138 Hamilton Pl; Aberdeen. Attd British Adriatic Mission with Royal Serbian Army. Order of St Sava (Serbia). Athens New Protestant Cemetery, Greece G 21 Row E Grave 3 City Grammar & St Andrews Ep
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anne park · Posted: Tue May 19, 2015 3:14 pm Post subject: Lt RE

William George Bruce Lt Royal Engineers attd 156th Royal Field Artillery b Aberdeen 08/07/1895 Age 22 Killed in Action F & F 25/04/1918 Son of Alexander Stewart Rae Bruce, (Advocate) & Margaret Bruce, 20 Rubislaw Den North , Aberdeen. City Roll of Honour. Roll of Service in the Great War : page 89 : Photo. Tyne Cot Memorial M. R. 30 Panel 008 Column 1 Aberdeen Weekly Journal 10-05-18 Page 6 AJ 21-05-15 Page 3 City & Grammar
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anne park · Posted: Tue May 19, 2015 3:17 pm Post subject: Lt RE

Alastair MacKinnon Kennedy Lt Royal Engineers attd 2nd/2nd West Lancs. b Forres Age 29 Died Home 18/10/1918 Son of Alexander and Margaret Kennedy, of 27, Muirfield Rd., Inverness. Born at Forres, Morayshire. 2nd Son of Alexander Kennedy, Station House, Keith. 1901 Census: Athol Villa, Inverness. Occ: Assistant Engineer. Inverness (Tomnahurich) Cemetery U. K. Inverness L1.2.8 Courant 25-01-18 1/1 & 3/4 BH 26-10-18 1/1 EE 22-10-18 Page 2 RoH GNSR & Keith
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anne park · Posted: Tue May 19, 2015 3:19 pm Post subject: 2nd Lt RE

William Herbert John Shepherd Spence 2nd Lt Royal Engineers attd Inland Water Transport Age 36 Died Iraq 23/09/1917 Son of Dr & Mrs Spence, Aberdeen. City Roll of Honour: 172 Holburn St; Husband of Mrs Amy Musgrove Spence, 18 Lisson Grove, Plymouth. Probate Will Date 19 Oct 1917. Basra War Cemetery, Iraq Iraq 6 Plot I Row B Grave 23 ADJ 29-09-17 1/1 City & Holburn West
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anne park · Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2016 4:53 am Post subject: Roll of Honour has different men

Major W Bissett
Captain J R Wilson
Lieut R Glegg
Lieut A Kemp
2/Lt A McL Maitland
2/Lt J E D Wallace
2/Lt D Jamieson
2/Lt O W Campbell
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anne park · Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2016 4:55 am Post subject: Major W Bissett

William Bisset Major MC MiD 404th Royal Engineers Field Coy b Aberdeen Age 33 Died Aberdeen 05/02/1921 Son of William Bisset, 38 Albyn Pl; Aberdeen. Mother Catherine Crombie Ogilvie. City Roll of Honour. Aberdeen Grammar School Roll of Honour : page 90. Springbank Cemetery AJ 10-02-21 Page 6 City & Grammar & RE Memorial
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anne park · Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2016 4:57 am Post subject: Capt J R Wilson

John Robert Wilson Capt MiD Royal Engineers & 9th RFC b Glasgow 29/07/1893 Age 24 Killed in Action F & F 22/10/1917 Son of John Wilson, Thornhill, Banchory. Born Aberdeen. 1901 Census: Beechwood, Peterculter. Mother: Agnes Lucy Hitchman. Educated RGC. 1906-10. City Roll of Honour: Millo, Pitfodels. Officers Book page 210. Banchory-Devenick MI 359 Brothers Keith & Gerard also died. Probate Will Date: 5 Jun 1919: Dalvenie, Cults, Peterculter. Probate Will: Date 27 May 1919: Occ: App Engineer, Balvenie, Cults. John Wilson, 445 Union St; Aberdeen, Assistant Cashier, Union Bank of Scotland Ltd; Harlebeke New British Cemetery B 140 Plot II Row A Grave 05 AJ 06-11-22 P3 City & RGC & Recreation Club, Cults & RE Memorial
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anne park · Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2016 5:00 am Post subject: Lt R Glegg

Robert Glegg Lt MiD 1st/2nd Royal Engineers High Field Coy b Aberdeen Old Machar 19/05/1895 Age 20 Killed in Action F & F 19/07/1915 Son of James Copland Glegg & Agnes Crabb Cowan Glegg, 60 King's Gate, Aberdeen. City Roll of Honour. Officers Book page 210. Allenvale MI. Cabaret-Rouge British Cemetery, Souchez Fr 0924 Plot XVII Row C Grave 26 EE 22-07-15 Page 4 RoH City & Grammar & RGC & & RE Memorial
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