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spoons
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 Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 4:43 pm Post subject: Cornets Club, Dumfries |
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UKNIWM Ref: 5860 - note there is an error in the entry as it refers to a ceremony in November 1919 but it is exclusively a WW2 memorial so that has to be wrong.
OS Map Ref: NT 260 020
This is not an easy memorial to find and is far from obvious when you get there. Enter Castledykes Park from the Glencaple Road entrance and the memorial is on top of the mound half left and in front of you. When you get to the top of the mound (see first photo) go past the monument to the castle up to the flagpole base (in the distance on first photo) which commemorates Robert the Bruce taking the castle (second photo) and the Cornets Club memorial is hiding away behind it.
The Cornets Club is associated with the Dumfries Guid Nychburris festival which seems to be somewhat similar to the English beating of the bounds ceremony (at least in part). See http://www.btinternet.com/~ds/guidnychburris/ceremony.htm for more detail (and some very quaint language  )
(photos to follow as photobucket is playing up again) |
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| Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 5:03 pm Post subject: |
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spoons
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| Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 5:02 pm Post subject: |
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'Cornet WP Moodie' is also named on the Dumfries memorial.
He was Major William Park Moodie who was killed in Sicily.
Here is a photo from the Guid Nychburris festival of 1938 with him dressed in the attire of a Cornet. He was Cornet in 1935.
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| Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 9:22 am Post subject: |
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Samuel Dickie is also on the Dumfries war memorial:
Name: DICKIE, SAMUEL
Initials: S
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Lance Corporal
Regiment/Service: Royal Tank Regiment, R.A.C.
Unit Text: 46th (The Liverpool Welsh)
Date of Death: 22/07/1942
Service No: 7943601
Additional information: Son of Samuel Dickie, and of Christina H. Dickie, of Dumfries.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: XXV. C. 28.
Cemetery: EL ALAMEIN WAR CEMETERY
Theres two possibilities for J Hunter:
3190517 or 186115
I remember this memorial quite vividly from having picnics in the park when I was little.
Tracey
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Interests: Dickson, Bowie, Manderson and Hogg from the Borders. Rammell, Beck, Ireland from Dumries & Galloway. |
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spoons
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| Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2009 5:22 pm Post subject: |
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I came across this single page whilst researching in the Ewart Library Dumfries. It is unattributed but I feel is is probably some journal or magazine of the Cornets club.
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| Posted: Fri Mar 06, 2009 8:54 am Post subject: |
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Is this Joey Hunter? 186115
Name: HUNTER, JOSEPH MACLEAN
Initials: J M
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Lieutenant
Regiment/Service: King's Own Scottish Borderers
Unit Text: 7th (Airborne) Bn.
Age: 24
Date of Death: 21/09/1944
Service No: 186115
Additional information: Son of Dr. Joseph Maclean Hunter, M.P., and Jean Augusta Hadley Hunter, M.D.; husband of June Hunter, of Notting Hill, London.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: 21. B. 3.
Cemetery: ARNHEM OOSTERBEEK WAR CEMETERY
Wonderful find on the article Spoons.
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spoons
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Yes that's him, place of birth Dumfries on SNWM.
and here is the other man listed.
Name: MOODIE, WILLIAM PARK
Initials: W P
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Major
Regiment/Service: King's Own Scottish Borderers
Secondary Regiment: Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
Secondary Unit Text: attd. 8th Bn.
Age: 38
Date of Death: 06/08/1943
Service No: 40812
Awards: Mentioned in Despatches
Additional information: Son of William and Elizabeth M. Moodie, of Dumfries; husband of Adeline Ironside Moodie (nee Gillison), of Dumfries.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: IV. A. 30.
Cemetery: CATANIA WAR CEMETERY, SICILY
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stuartn
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| Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2016 6:45 pm Post subject: |
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The WMR, ex UKNIWM, report has now been corrected.
Thanks for pointing out the error |
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stuartn
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| Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2016 7:18 pm Post subject: |
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| This is now on the WMR, ex UKNIWM, as memorial 71632 |
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