The Scottish Military Research Group - Commemorations Project

Adam Brown

A very impressive statue on Prestonpans Memorial let down by pretty shoddy photography. Note the 1914 pattern leather equipment in the first image.

I will post images of the names when I have time. In the mean time please let me know if you want the names before I post them here.

Adam

Adam Brown · Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2007 8:20 pm Post subject:

Herea are the name panels. I finally got round to downloading them:

Note C.P. McKinlay's name on the WW2 panel has been amended at some point

Adam

DerekR · Posted: Tue May 20, 2008 4:07 pm Post subject:

Name: BANKS, JAMES
Initials: J
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: King's Own Scottish Borderers
Unit Text: 2nd Bn.
Age: 27
Date of Death: 18/04/1915
Service No: 325
Additional information: Son of Thomas and Margaret C. Banks, of 26, Summerlee St., Prestonpans, Edinburgh.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 22.
Memorial: YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL
_________________

Time but th' impression stronger makes, As streams their channels deeper wear.

DelBoy · Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2011 2:38 am Post subject: Memorial Transcription

WW1

J. Aitken
T. Aitken
M. Allan
G. Allison
R. Amos
D. Anderson
G. Anderson
R. Anderson
J. Arnott
W. Arnott
W. Baillie
P. Baird
J. Banks
J. Barr
A. Baxter
T. Bell
W. Bell
W. Blackley
A. Blyth
G. Bowes
P. Brackenridge
A. Brown
J. Brown
A. Buchanan
J. Burns
J. Burns
W.H.P. Calder
W. Clark
J. Clelland
A. Cochrane
M. Condron
O.R. Cullen
G.R. Cunningham
J. Cunningham
R.D. Cunningham
J. Darroch
D. Darling
R. Darling
W. Darling
J. Davie
J. Donnachue
P. Douglas
A. Edgar
J. Edmond
J. Edmond
T. Edmond
W. Edmond
C. Fairley
G. Findlay
J. Findlay
G. Flockhart
T. Forbes
A. Fraser
A. Fraser
A. Fraser
P.R. Fraser
R. Fraser
W. Gilroy
J. Gordon
P. Gunn
J. Hamilton
J. Hawthorn
T.K. Henderson
A. Herriot
J. Hewitt
C. Horne
R. Hulbert
C. Hunter
C. Inglis
J. Inglis
G. Jenkins
R. Jenkins
A. Johnston
B. Johnston
M. Keenan
R. Kelly
A. Kennedy
P. Lourie
A. Lumsden
J. Lumsden
A. MacFarlane
W. Mackie
T. Main
A.B. Melrose
G. Melrose
R.M. Millar
J. Moodie
J. McAulay
J. McFarlane
D. McGroarty
A. McKenzie
W.A.S. McKerrell
P.H. McKinlay
J.J. McLagan
R.D. McLean
J. McLeod
R. McLeod
D. McMurdie
C. Neilson
J. Nisbet
R.H. Nisbet
S. Nisbet
D. p(????)
J. Porter
R.A.L. Purves
P. Rafferty
T. Rafferty
J. Reid
A.W. Renwick
D. Ritchie
G. Ritchie
C. Robertson
J. Russell
G. Samuel
W. Samuel
A. Scott
A. Smith
C.R. Smith
G.R. Smith
J.M. SMith
W.J. Smith
T. Speirs
T. Stevenson
J. Stewart
D. Stirrat
J. Tennant
J. Thomson
W. Thomson
C. Tonner
J.C. Vanbeck
T. Vevers
A. Waddel
A. Wallace
H.S. Wallace
W.E. Wallace
J. Waters
J.S. Weir
D. Williams
H.E. (??) Wilson
M. (?) Wood
(?). Yorkston
T. Yorkston

WW2

A.T. Andrew
E.A. Baxter
T. Bell
* J. Blair
W. Clark
T. Cassidy
P. Commons
* D. Currie
* (?). Donaldson
P. Edwards
J. Ferguson
J. Gauson
D. Gay
* R. Gorrian
J. Harkes
J. Hogg
T. Ingles
J. Kerr
N. Kerr
H. Laidlaw
W. Laidlaw
T. Marshall
M. Meharry
D. McDonald
G. P. McKinlay
R. McInlay
J.D. McLean
N. McMillan
J. Nisbet
T. Ritchie
A. Rowan
J. Salkeld
J. Scott
C. Stewart
A. Taylor
J. Thomson
J.C. Thomson
R. Thomon
J. Turnbull
G. Watt

(* Later Additions)

Kenneth Morrison · Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2011 10:17 am Post subject:

Here's one of the YORKSTON's from WW1.
We don't appear to have his CWG on SWGP.

Name: YORKSTON
Initials: T
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)
Unit Text: 3rd Bn.
Date of Death: 03/12/1920
Service No: S/3526
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: N. 1112.
Cemetery: PRESTONPANS NEW CEMETERY
_________________
Ken

DelBoy · Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2011 1:56 pm Post subject: Peter Brackinridge

WW1 Casualty P. Brackenridge is one of those whose name seems to suffer from several different spellings.
His age appears to vary between 38 and 45 from the war return to CWGC.
His birth certificate shows he was born in Drem, Athelstaneford on the 4th of September 1876 as Peter Brackenridge. Therefore his surname appears correctly spelled only upon the memorial. He was 38 years old when he died, so the war return age is correct.

CWGC
Name: BRICKINRIDGE, PETER
Initials: P
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)
Unit Text: 1st Bn.
Age: 45
Date of Death: 09/05/1915
Service No: 3/2922
Additional information: Son of the late Elizabeth Margaret Russel Brickinridge.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Panels 24 to 26.
Memorial: LE TOURET MEMORIAL

SNWM
Surname: BRACKENRIDGE
Firstname: Peter
Service Number: 3/2922
Date Death: 09/05/1915
Place of birth: Drem Haddingtonshire
Other: 1st Bn.
SNWM roll: THE BLACK WATCH (ROYAL HIGHLANDERS)
Rank: Pte

War Return
Breckinridge

DelBoy · Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2011 3:27 pm Post subject: Pte. John C. Vanbeck

CWGC
Name: VANBECK, JOHN C.
Initials: J C
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Royal Scots
Unit Text: 8th Bn.
Date of Death: 07/02/1915
Service No: 1197
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 1.
Memorial: PLOEGSTEERT MEMORIAL

SNWM
Surname: VANBECK
Firstname: John C
Service Number: 1197
Date Death: 07/02/1915
Other: 8th Bn.
SNWM roll: THE ROYAL SCOTS (LOTHIAN REGIMENT)
Rank: Pte

DelBoy · Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2011 3:30 pm Post subject: Sgt. Thomas Vevers

CWGC
Name: VEVERS
Initials: T
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Serjeant
Regiment/Service: Royal Scots
Unit Text: 8th Bn.
Age: 28
Date of Death: 18/05/1915
Service No: 126
Additional information: Husband of Euphemia Cunningham Vevers, of 207, High St., Prestonpans, Edinburgh.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: III. E. 3.
Cemetery: MERVILLE COMMUNAL CEMETERY

SNWM
Surname: VEVERS
Firstname: Thomas
Service Number: 126
Date Death: 18/05/1915
Place of birth: Edinburgh
Other: 8th Bn.
SNWM roll: THE ROYAL SCOTS (LOTHIAN REGIMENT)
Rank: Sgt

DelBoy · Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2011 3:41 pm Post subject: John Gauson

John Gauson who appears on the memorials WW2 names is not on CWGC or SNWM.

He died at home in Prestonpans of some (unreadable) illness to the lungs and abdomen aged 35 in October of 1945. He is listed as a coal miner.

DelBoy · Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2011 3:45 pm Post subject: Pte. Robert McFarlane Gorrian

CWGC
Name: GORRIAN, ROBERT MCFARLANE
Initials: R M
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders
Unit Text: 2nd Bn.
Age: 24
Date of Death: 15/03/1941
Service No: 2930082
Additional information: Son of Thomas and Jane McFarlane Gorrian, of Prestonpans, East Lothian.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: 4. C. 16.
Cemetery: KEREN WAR CEMETERY

SNWM
Surname: GORRIAN
Firstname: Robert M
Service number: 2930082
Date of death: 15/03/1941
Place of birth: East Lothian
SNWM roll: THE QUEEN'S OWN CAMERON HIGHLANDERS and THE LIVERPOOL SCOTTISH
Rank: Pte

DelBoy · Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2011 3:48 pm Post subject: Spr. Maxwell Meharry

CWGC
Name: MEHARRY, MAXWELL
Initials: M
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Sapper
Regiment/Service: Royal Engineers
Unit Text: 1002 Docks Operating Coy.
Age: 33
Date of Death: 01/01/1942
Service No: 762447
Additional information: Son of David and Jeanie Meharry; husband of Mary Ann Meharry, of Prestonpans, East Lothian.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Column 49.
Memorial: ALAMEIN MEMORIAL

SNWM
Surname: MEHARRY
Firstname: Maxwell
Service number: 762447
Date of death: 01/01/1942
Place of birth: Edinburgh
SNWM roll: ROYAL ENGINEERS
Rank: Spr

DelBoy · Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2011 4:06 pm Post subject: Pte. Joseph Salkeld

The estimated date of Private Salkeld's death is qute a long time. I wonder what the circumstances were?
He is one of 6 Argyll war burials in Lancheres churchyard, I imagine they were in retreat to Dunkirk when they died?

CWGC
Name: SALKELD, JOSEPH
Initials: J
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
Unit Text: 8th Bn.
Age: 21
Date of Death: between 05/06/1940 and 20/05/1941
Service No: 3132177
Additional information: Son of Joseph and Margaret Salkeld, of Prestonpans, East Lothian.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Grave 4.
Cemetery: LANCHERES CHURCHYARD

SNWM
Surname: SALKELD
Firstname: Joseph
Service number: 3132177
Date of death: 05/06/1940
Place of birth: Midlothian
Other: - 20-05-41.
SNWM roll: THE ARGYLL AND SUTHERLAND HIGHLANDERS (PRINCESS LOUISE'S)
Rank: Pte

Adam Brown · 05/06/1940 and 23/06/1940

ADP · Joined: 13 Jun 2008 Posts: 467 Location: Edinburgh

DelBoy · Posted: Sun Sep 25, 2011 5:34 pm Post subject:

Ah good reading skills there ADP.

I wasn't sure on that but i think you've got it right.

I wonder why he was considered a war casualty by the community? Perhaps he's served earlier in the war? Obviously coal was needed for the war effort so he was doing his bit in that way.

Derek.