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Kenneth Morrison
Joined: 29 Sep 2008 Posts: 7749 Location: Rockcliffe Dalbeattie
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Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2016 5:05 pm Post subject: Robert Melrose, Scots Guards. Gorebridge |
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Anyone have any info on:
Private (10144) Robert Melrose, Military Medal, 1st Battalion Scots Guards.
Killed 15 September 1916.
SDGW has born Yarrow, Selkirkshire; resident Galashiels; enlisted:Corebridge - he is named on the GOREBRIDGE WM in Midlothian.
http://warmemscot.s4.bizhat.com/viewtopic.php?t=391
He was born in 1893 in Yarrow and in 1901, age 7, was at "Tosso Cottages, Manor, Peeblesshire" with his parents William & Margaret and a whole gang of siblings.
He is also on the Bargrennan WM (north of Newton Stewart)
http://warmemscot.s4.bizhat.com/viewtopic.php?t=2201
Son of William and Margaret (Anderson) Melrose of Corriefeckloch, Bargrennan. Late of Peeblesshire. (Southern Reporter 2/11/1916 p.5 and family grave in Bargrennan Churchyard)
http://scottishwargraves.phpbbweb.com/viewtopic.php?t=987
His MM was in the London Gazette 27/10/1916 p.10482.
I cannot trace him in the Lothians pre-war and I don't know the area - might he have been a miner?
Any ideas please! _________________ Ken |
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Adam Brown Curator
Joined: 14 Dec 2006 Posts: 7312 Location: Edinburgh (From Sutherland)
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Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2016 10:42 am Post subject: Re: Robert Melrose, Scots Guards. Gorebridge |
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Kenneth Morrison wrote: |
I cannot trace him in the Lothians pre-war and I don't know the area - might he have been a miner?
Any ideas please! |
Gorebridge is certainly a former mining town. The man you need to speak to is John Duncan of Newbattle at War. He's done a lot of work on men listed on Midlothian memorials and has trawled through the local papers from the time.
I'll let him know you are looking into Private Melrose to see if he has any information.
Cheers
Adam |
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Kenneth Morrison
Joined: 29 Sep 2008 Posts: 7749 Location: Rockcliffe Dalbeattie
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Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2016 12:27 pm Post subject: |
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Thank you kind sir! _________________ Ken |
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