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PostPosted: Tue Dec 13, 2016 6:22 pm    Post subject: Edinburgh Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies Reply with quote

Edinburgh Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies.
The University of edinburgh
Easter Bush Campus
Midlothian
EH25 9RG.


Thanks are due to Mr Tom Mortimer for allowing access to photograph the memorial.

Thank, too, to Ken Morrison for the link to the book detailing the information regarding the Memorial and all the details of the men listed on the Memorial.
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 13, 2016 7:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

What a really attractive memorial! Thanks for tracking it down Morag Very Happy

Here's the man who started my enquiry about it, from the Dornock memorial in Dumfriesshire:

KENNETH G. COMRIE
Kenneth Gordon Comrie – age 27 – Major (110479) Royal Army Veterinary Corps.
Kenneth was educated at Eastriggs School, Annan and Dumfries Academies and at the Royal (Dick) College of Veterinary Surgeons in Edinburgh from where he qualified in 1938. He was awarded his B.Sc. from Edinburgh University in 1939. He was commissioned in February 1940 and went to the Middle East in November 1942. He was killed by shell fire while assisting the 17th Indian Mule Company at San Michele near Monte Cassino.
Born 1916 in Sidi Salem, Egypt. Son of Leslie John and Catherine (Bickerton) Comrie of Sidi Salem, Egypt and of The Crescent, Eastriggs. Husband of Isobel Susan (Brebner) Comrie who he married in Hollingbourne, Kent in 1940.
Killed in Action on 12 February 1944 and buried in Cassino War Cemetery, Italy.
Also named on the Old College memorial in Edinburgh University.
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 21, 2018 6:03 pm    Post subject: WMR (ex UKNIWM) number Reply with quote

WMR 76643
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 22, 2018 4:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Named on the Sanquhar War Memorial in Dumfriesshire as:

P/O. W. ELLIOTT STENHOUSE, R.A.F.
William Elliott Stenhouse – age 22 – Pilot Officer/Pilot (145346) 7 Squadron, Bomber Command, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.
Elliott was educated at Sanquhar Public School and at Wallace Hall Academy in Dumfriesshire before entering the Royal (Dick) Veterinary College in Edinburgh in June 1937. He had passed four years of the course when he enlisted in 1941. He was trained as a pilot in the USA and he was commissioned from Sergeant (1551780) in April 1943. He was injured in August when his Stirling bomber, which had developed a serious engine problem during a raid on Hamburg, crashed on landing at RAF Oakington in Cambridgeshire. Elliott's new aircraft, a Lancaster bomber, had taken off from Oakington for a raid on Hannover but the aircraft crashed at Geest-Munde, Bremerhaven and the crew were buried in Bremen-Walle Cemetery but were re-interred in Becklingen in March 1947.
Born 1921 in Sanquhar. Son of Alexander and Annie Frances (Elliott) Stenhouse of St. Mary Street, Sanquhar.
Killed in Action on 22 September 1943 and buried in Becklingen War Cemetery, Germany.
Also named on the Sanquhar School memorial.
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 22, 2018 4:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The Roll of Honour is at http://warmemscot.s4.bizhat.com/viewtopic.php?t=8325&highlight=veterinary
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PostPosted: Sun Jun 24, 2018 7:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ken,

Thanks

I have renamed 76643 as the New Memorial, in case enough information comes along to raise a report for the Old Memorial, which it would seem had a very different set of names! As far as I can gather from the Roll of Honour the old memorial either still does exist, or did until very recently

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