The Scottish Military Research Group - Commemorations Project

dhubthaigh · Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2007 10:11 am Post subject: KENMORE WW2

A memorial plaque to those of the parish who fell in the Second World War;
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DelBoy · Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2010 12:42 pm Post subject:

Guardsman Donald Anderson Scots Guards
Private Donald Beaton Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders
Captain Kennath A.M. Gillies Black Watch Royal Highlanders
Major Robert Hutchison Black Watch Royal Highlanders
Corporal Donald MacKercher Royal Air Force
Dugald McNiven Home Guard
Sapper Hamish McRae Royal Engineers

Adam Brown · Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2010 3:39 pm Post subject:

A Home Guard death listed

McNIVEN, DOUGALD
Initials: D
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Volunteer
Regiment/Service: Home Guard
Date of Death: 18/08/1940
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Grave 1160.
Cemetery: KENMORE PARISH CHURCHYARD

And this man is the sapper, he's listed on his parents headstone in the churchyard.

MACRAE, HAMISH
Initials: H
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Sapper
Regiment/Service: Royal Engineers
Unit Text: 584 Army Field Coy.
Age: 23
Date of Death: 28/09/1944
Service No: 14314240
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: 10. E. 1.
Cemetery: JONKERBOS WAR CEMETERY

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