The Scottish Military Research Group - Commemorations Project

dhubthaigh · Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 4:43 pm Post subject: WILLIAM WHYTE

The memorial window is inside the kirk at Glen Prosen;

Name: WHYTE, WILLIAM
Initials: W
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Lieutenant
Regiment/Service: Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)
Unit Text: 4th/5th Bn.
Age: 25
Date of Death: 28/09/1918
Additional information: Only son of Archibald and Margaret L. Whyte, of Inverquharity, Kirriemuir, Forfarshire.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: III. H. 7.
Cemetery: CERISY-GAILLY MILITARY CEMETERY

dhubthaigh · Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 4:45 pm Post subject:

William Whyte is also commemorated on the bronze plaque in the Memorial Porch;

http://warmemscot.s4.bizhat.com/viewtopic.php?t=2603

stuartn · Joined: 13 Dec 2016 Posts: 2551

But this window is a memorial window to a William Whyte , born 1829, died 1915. Now he MAY be the grandfather or possibly great grandfather of the war casualty of the same name, 1893-1918, but cannot himself be a war casualty.