The Scottish Military Research Group - Commemorations Project

dhubthaigh · Posted: Tue May 12, 2009 12:44 pm Post subject: Arbirlot, WW1

PHOTOS COURTESY OF PAT ANDERSON

TO HIM WHO GAVE HIMSELF FOR US AND
TO OUR OWN FALLEN IN THE GREAT WAR
1914 - 1918

First Row

Pte G Scott, Pte D F Fearn , Pte W Donald, Pte J S McIntosh , Pte D Airth, Pte D J C Ireland.

Second row

Capt Hope Hunter , Pte J Thomson, Pte W Gray, Pte D R Sievwright , Pte A Wall , Pte J Lindsay.

Third row

Pte J Cook, Cpl W G Brown, Cpl C W Kydd, Gnr D Munro, Gnr A Munro

Pat thought the last named, with no rank (probably an addition), was J P Hill. I think it might be J P Steele ?

Keptie · Posted: Tue May 12, 2009 9:41 pm Post subject: arbirlot

This Church of Scotland church at Arbirlot is not often open to the public during the week and inside there is this Memorial plaque that lists an extra name to the tablet outside of the church . The additional name has no rank shown .

The tablet outside mentions a Memorial Window inside the church

Patrick W Anderson

dhubthaigh · Posted: Wed May 13, 2009 12:08 pm Post subject:

PHOTO COURTESY OF PAT ANDERSON

Adam Brown · Posted: Wed May 13, 2009 5:03 pm Post subject:

One of the names

HUNTER, HOPE
Rank: Captain
Regiment/Service: London Regiment (London Scottish)
Unit Text: 2nd/14th Bn.
Age: 42
Date of Death: 03/12/1917
Additional information: Son of George Neish Hunter and Isabella Cloudsley Hunter, of Cuthlie, Arbirlot, Forfarshire. Served in the South African Campaign with the 1st Volunteer Coy. (The London Scottish) attd. 2nd Bn. Gordon Highlanders.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: C. 120.
Cemetery: KANTARA WAR MEMORIAL CEMETERY

DelBoy · Posted: Wed May 13, 2009 10:52 pm Post subject:

Captain Hope Hunter gets around. He's remembered on Arbirlot and Arbroath Parish Memorials, also he's on the High School Memorial.

The names on the plaque for the church congregation are the same as on the parish tablet memorial on the outer wall of the church.
Kydd, Munro Brothers, Thomson, Scott and Steele all are remembered on inscriptions on family graves in Arbirlot churchyard.

dhubthaigh · Posted: Fri May 15, 2009 12:31 pm Post subject:

From a post by DelBoy on the SWGP from Arbirlot Cemetery this man will be the JP Steele who has been added;

Name: STEELE, J P
Initials: J P
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Senior Engineer
Regiment/Service: Admiralty Civilian
Secondary Unit Text: Employed by Fairfield Shipbuilding Co., on H.M. Submarine "K.13."
Date of Death: 29/01/1917
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Sec. A. Grave 1.
Cemetery: FASLANE CEMETERY

Adam Brown · Posted: Fri May 15, 2009 1:46 pm Post subject:

I see J P Steele was a Submarine K13 death and there are two K13 memorials posted on the forum. He is listed on both of them.

One is at Govan and the other is at Garelochhead

Regards

Adam

dhubthaigh · Posted: Fri May 15, 2009 1:48 pm Post subject:

dhubthaigh · Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2011 6:27 pm Post subject:

The Scotsman: 04.09.1922
Arbirlot

The Duches of Atholl yesterday, at a combined service of the Established and U.F. Presbyterian congregations, Arbirlot, held in the Parish Church, unveiled a large, beautifully designed three-light stained glass window and also two mural tablets - one inside and one outside the church - erected in memory of the men belonging to the parish who fell in the war. The service was conducted by the Rev. John Oliver, Arbirlot U.F. Church, and the Rev. W. W. Scotland, of the Parish Church. The congregation was addressed by the Duchess of Atholl, and the sermon was preached by the Rev. R. Prenter, St. Mark's, Dundee.

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