The Scottish Military Research Group - Commemorations Project

Mike Morley · Posted: Mon Nov 23, 2020 1:30 pm Post subject:

Name: MCDONALD, PETER
Initials: P
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Service Number: 15603
Regiment/Service: Royal Scots, 13th Bn
Date of Death: 28/3/1918
Age: 18
Additional Information: Son of Mrs. Naomi I. McKechnie, of Gowanlea, Uphall, West Lothian.
Panel Reference: Bay 1 and 2
Memorial: Arras Memorial.

Mike Morley · Posted: Sun Mar 14, 2021 6:51 pm Post subject:

Pte William Clemison, S/12503 Black Watch. Discharged for medical reasons 26/9/1918 (Silver War Badge). Died 19 September 1920 Pulmonary Tuberculosis. There are six Pension Ledgers on Ancestry but none give an indication for the reason for discharge. Thus it it not possible to forward as a non-commemoration.

Mike Morley · Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2021 5:15 pm Post subject:

John Grieve Liddle discharged August 1915 for medical reasons following two months in Haddington Hospital suffering from Scarlet Fever. Pte 7319, 8th Bn Royal Scots. He died on 22/6/1916 from Ulcerative Endocarditis (a rare condition that involves inflammation of the heart).

Apparently severe cases of scarlet fever can cause cardiac problems such as Endocarditis, but such a link was only properly explored later on in the 20th Century. As such his case could not go forward for consideration as a non-commemoration as such a link would only be supposition.

Mike Morley · Posted: Fri Apr 09, 2021 10:59 am Post subject:

J Dougan is probably:

Name: DOUGAN, JOHN
Initials: J
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Service Number: 16049
Regiment/Service: Royal Scots, 12th Bn
Date of Death: 25/9/1915
Panel Reference: Panel 10 to 13
Memorial: Loos Memorial.

UK Soldiers Died in the Great War identifies place of recruitment as Peebles. The Tweeddale Roll of Honour identifies him as "Jack", although it gives the date of his death as 10 October 1915. There is no family connection to Peebles, rather he was a well known builder's labourer in the town.

Mike Morley · Posted: Wed May 12, 2021 9:39 am Post subject:

Name: WALKER, WILLIAM
Initials: W
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Service Number: 38576
Regiment/ervice: Royal Scots, 13th Bn
Date of Death: 22/8/1917
Panel Reference: Panel 11 to 14
Memorial: Tyne Cot Memorial.

Mike Morley · Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2021 1:33 pm Post subject:

Name: TWEEDIE, THOMAS
Initials: T
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Service Number: M2/052610
Regiment/Service: Army Service Corps, 621st Coy
Date of Death: 5/12/1916
Age: 40
Additional Information: Son of the late Alexander Gladstone and the late Jane Tweedie, of Edinburgh.
Grave Reference: Z57
Cemetery: Edinburgh (Grange) Cemetery.

Also named on Tweedsmuir War Memorial.

Mike Morley · Posted: Sat Nov 06, 2021 2:27 pm Post subject:

Name: MOODIE, CHARLES WATSON
Initials: CW
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Serjeant
Service Number: 69903
Regiment/Service: Royal Engineers, 82nd Field Coy
Date of Death: 21/7/1919
Age: 32
Additional Information: Son of Henry Morton and Margaret Moodie of Kirkcaldy, Fife.
Commemoration: United Kingdom Book of Remembrance.

Also named on Kirkcaldy and Peebles Silver Band War Memorials.