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Keptie
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 Posted: Fri Jul 03, 2015 11:53 am Post subject: Pc S.W. COWAN , MM Pte , Scots Guards - Wick Police Office |
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I have had a communication from Sharon Morrison , Archive Assistant at the Caithness Archives in Wick that the WICK POLICE OFFICE has a War Memorial to one of their CAITHNESS SHIRE CONSTABULARY Police Constables from the Great War .
The Memorial Plaque is located in the Wick Police Office enquiry area and has :
Force Crest
IN HONOURED MEMORY OF
PC - S.W. COWAN , MM
Pte SCOTS GUARDS
WHO DIED OF WOUNDS IN FRANCE
39th MARCH 1918
( I note from my archive that CAITHNESS -SHIRE CONSTABULARY was formed in 1885 by the merger of Thurso Burgh Police and the Wick Burgh Police and from 1912 to 1952 the chief constable was William K Cormack . The force on 16th May 1969 became part of the Northern Constabulary ).
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Keptie
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| Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2015 10:43 am Post subject: Wick Police Office WW1 |
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Soldiers died in the Gr War lists
GDSMAN 790 SINCLAIR WILLIAMSON COWAN, 4th Bn Guards Machine Gun Regiment , born OLRIG CAITHNESS , ENLISTED WICK CAITHNESS , RESIDENCE THURSO CAITHNESS died of wounds France & Flanders 30th March 1918
formerly 14118 SCOTS GUARDS
CWGC
Pte 790 death 30 March 1918 aged 24 machine gun guards 2nd Coy
awards MILITARY MEDAL
grave P 1X G 12A ST SEVER CEMETERY EXTENSION ,ROUEN
son of WILLIAM AND ISABELLA COWAN, OUST, WESTFIELD , THURSO , CAITHNESS .
SNWM Edinburgh :
COWAN , SINCLAIR WILLIAMSON
GDSM 790
birth OLRIG CAITHNESS
DEATH 30 March 1918 F & F
died of wounds roll : Scottish casualties extracted from English regiments
unit name GUARDS MACHINE GUN REGT
OTHER 4th Bn formerly 14118 Scots Guards .
ARMY MEDAL ROLL :
cowan , Sinclair W Scots Guards Gds MGR rank Pte 14118 and 790
medals awarded :
VICTORY
BRITISH
no other details re date or correspondence etc
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Keptie
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| Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2015 3:28 pm Post subject: wick police |
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The 2014 publication book FOR BRAVERY IN THE FIELD great war british army recipients of the MM 1914-1920 by Peter Warrington and Sinclair Williamson COWAN is listed in its pages for MM
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Kenneth Morrison
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tanyagar
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| Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2015 8:21 pm Post subject: |
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Soldiers effects on Ancestry has his pension etc going to an Isabella Grantee? Can't read the surname.... Also says he died at 10 Gen Hos France - wherever that may be.
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Kenneth Morrison
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David McNay
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Can I ask that until we have a confirmed image of a memorial that we keep threads like this to a minimum please?
We have a section for memorial discussion - http://warmemscot.s4.bizhat.com/viewforum.php?f=178
any discussion of memorials we have not recorded here should go in the thread for each area.
The memorial sections of the forum should only be for memorials we ourselves have recorded and documented. I don't doubt this memorial exists, but we don't have a photo of it, so it should remain in the discussion area for the moment.
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Keptie
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| Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2015 11:05 pm Post subject: wick police WW1 |
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I have a photograph that can be added but I don't know how to so if someone wishes to pm me and give me their email address I can email it to them to add and that will be confirmation of the memorial .
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Adam Brown
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Pat has sent me the photograph of the plaque. I'll get it uploaded as soon as I can and add it to Pat's original post.
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Adam Brown
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Pat's photograph now added to the first post.
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