The Scottish Military Research Group - Commemorations Project

Mike Morley · Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2021 7:35 pm Post subject:

Name: TINN, PETER NORMAN
Initials: PN
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Captain
Service Number: 65688
Regiment/Service: Highland Light Infantry (City of Glasgow Regiment) 1st Bn.
Awards:Mentioned in Despatches
Date of Death: 20/10/1942
Age: 23
Additional Information: Son of Norman A. Tinn, and of Margaret Amy Tinn, of Colmonell
Grave Reference: Grave 121.
Cemetery: Colmonell Cemetery.

Also named on Colmonell War Memorial.

Mike Morley · Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2021 7:12 pm Post subject:

Name: TUDSBERY, ROBIN FS
Initials: RFS
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Lieutenant
Service Number: 189793
Regiment/Service: Royal Horse Guards
Date of Death: 30/4/1945
Age: 25
Additional Information: Son of Francis and Isabella Tudsbery, of Champfleurie, West Lothian. M.A. (Cantab); King's College.
Grave Reference: Coll Grave 7 A 2-4
Cemetery: Becklingen War Cemetery.

Also named on Linlithgow St Michael's Church War Memorial. Also the Robin Chapel in Edinburgh was built in his memory by his parents: http://warmemscot.s4.bizhat.com/viewtopic.php?t=8235&highlight=tudsbery

Mike Morley · Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2021 7:16 pm Post subject:

Name: UNIACKE, ROBIE DENNIS WOODGATE
Initials: RDW
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Lieutenant Colonel
Service Number: 34409
Regiment/Service: Royal Tank Regiment, R.A.C., Cdg. 5th
Date of Death: 2/6/1942
Age: 36
Additional Information: Son of Cecil Dudley Woodgate Uniacke and of Evelyn Catherine Uniacke (nee Clark-Kennedy); husband of Edith Barbara Uniacke (nee Corbett), of Camberley, Surrey.
Grave Reference: 4 A 1
Cemetery: Knightsbridge War Cemetery, Acroma.

Also named on Uppingham School War Memorial.

Mike Morley · Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2021 7:18 pm Post subject:

Name: WALLS, JAMES DAVID
Initials: JD
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Flight Sergeant
Service Number: 1061883
Regiment/Service: Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, 161 Sqdn
Date of Death: 20/9/1942
Age: 20
Additional Information: Son of Frederic Ritchie Walls and Jessie Eva Walls, of Ayr.
Grave Reference: Plot 12. Row D. Coll. grave 17-22.
Cemetery: Boulogne Eastern Cemetery.

Mike Morley · Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2021 7:23 pm Post subject:

Name: WATERSTON, GEORGE MACDOUGALL
Initials: G M
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Service No: 2764334
Regiment/Service: Army Air Corps, attd. 1st Airborne Div. Sigs., Royal Corps of Signals
Date of Death: 18/09/1944
Age: 23
Additional information: Son of David and Helen Hay Waterston, of Glamis, Angus.
Grave Reference: 20. B. 17.
Cemetery: Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery.

Also named on Glamis War Memorial.

Mike Morley · Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2021 7:29 pm Post subject:

Name: WHITSON, WILFRED MICHAEL ALEXANDER
Initials: WMA
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Captain
Service Number: 95156
Regiment/Service: Royal Artillery, attd Royal Air Force
Date of Death: 12/3/1943
Age: 22
Additional Information: Son of Ralph Alexander Whitson and Anne Laura Morton Whitson, of Glasgow.
Panel Reference: Panel 5
Memorial: Woking (St John's) Crematorium.

Also named on Symington (S Lanarkshire) War Memorial.

Mike Morley · Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2021 7:31 pm Post subject:

Name: YOUNG, MICHAEL CLIVE
Initials: MC
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Sergeant
Service Number: 1059469
Regiment/Service: Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, 57 Sqdn
Date of Death: 11/10/1941
Grave Reference: 1 B 16
Cemetery: Rheinberg War Cemetery.

Mike Morley · Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2021 7:34 pm Post subject:

I have been unable to identify the following names:

GM Ramsay, Sudan
Flt Lt John Steele, RAF Volunteer Reserve

Both from WW2.

Kenneth Morrison · Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2022 10:51 am Post subject: