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Adam Brown
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PostPosted: Tue May 22, 2007 1:55 pm    Post subject: South Queensferry Reply with quote

South Queensferry War memorial
Location: Jubilee Clock Tower, High Street
OS Ref: NT 129 783

Queensferry's war memorial plaques:









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Adam Brown
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 23, 2009 12:04 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

An unusual surname for these two airmen brothers

SHOOLBREAD, JAMES
Rank: Sergeant (W.Op./Air Gnr.)
Regiment/Service: Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Unit Text: 36 Sqdn.
Age: 28
Date of Death: 04/03/1944
Service No: 1116919
Additional information: Son of James and Lucy Ann Shoolbread; husband of Margaret Marion H. C. Shoolbread, of South Queensferry, West Lothian.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: 4. C. 8.
Cemetery: DELY IBRAHIM WAR CEMETERY

SHOOLBREAD, THOMAS LOUIS BENOIT
Rank: Pilot Officer (Pilot)
Regiment/Service: Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Age: 23
Date of Death: 04/01/1945
Service No: 185730
Additional information: Son of James and Lucy Ann Shoolbread, of South Queensferry.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Grave 1083.
Cemetery: DALMENY AND QUEENSFERRY CEMETERY
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mhomac



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PostPosted: Fri Feb 27, 2015 4:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

SHOEBRIDGE, CHARLES WILLIAM

Rank:MarineService
No:CH/20844
Date of Death:25/12/1944
Age:44
Regiment/Service:Royal Marines H.M.S. Sparrowhawk.
Grave Reference: Grave 184.
Cemetery:QUEENSFERRY CEMETERY
Additional Information: Son of William Charles and Mary Jane Shoebridge.
Husband of Margaret Peaston Shoebridge, of South Queensferry.
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Kenneth Morrison



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PostPosted: Thu Jul 20, 2017 4:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

JOHN MURRAY.

Named on the Chalmers Church memorial in Langholm but not on the main War Memorial.

John Murray – age 39 – Private (202413) 8th Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders.
John was the manager of the Co-operative Stores in South Queensferry, West Lothian. (Source: CWGC)
Born 1878 in Carlisle, Cumberland. (Source:1881 & 1891 census and GRO – Birth Index. SNWM has Langholm)
Son of the late Robert and Jane (Beeby) Murray of Llama Cottage, Aspatria, Cumberland. (Source: CWGC and 1901 & 1911 census)
Husband of the late Mary Anne (Irving) Murray of 7 Rosevale Street, Langholm who he married in 1901 in Langholm.
Mary Anne died in 1905 in Langholm, aged 27.
Missing in Action on 22 August 1917 and named on the Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium.
Also named on the Aspatria War Memorial and on the Aspatria Parish Church Memorial.
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