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David McNay Administrator
Joined: 14 Dec 2006 Posts: 11425 Location: Lanarkshire, Scotland
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Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2008 8:57 pm Post subject: Alexander Shiels Elliot |
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Located within St. Nicholas Church, Lanark.
DSC00230 by Scottish Military Research Group, on Flickr
Name: ELLIOT, ALEXANDER SHIELS
Initials: A S
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Lieutenant
Regiment/Service: Highland Light Infantry
Unit Text: attd. 8th Bn.
Age: 22
Date of Death: 28/06/1915
Additional information: Son of William Elliot, of Muirglen, Lanark.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 173 to 177.
Memorial: HELLES MEMORIAL
DSC00231 by Scottish Military Research Group, on Flickr
DSC00232 by Scottish Military Research Group, on Flickr
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DerekR Moderator
Joined: 19 Dec 2006 Posts: 3013 Location: Hawick, Scotland
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Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2009 8:48 pm Post subject: |
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This plaque, interestingly copying the words found on the memorial scrolls issued to the next of kin of those who died in the Great War, is to be found in the Elliot burial lair in Hobkirk Churchyard, Bonchester Bridge, near Hawick.
See also: Hobkirk Churchyard _________________
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Kenneth Morrison
Joined: 29 Sep 2008 Posts: 7755 Location: Rockcliffe Dalbeattie
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Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2019 4:33 pm Post subject: |
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Named on the Hobkirk Parish War Memorial in Bonchester Bridge, Roxburghshire as:
LIEUT. ALEX. SHIELS ELLIOT, H.L.I.
Alexander Shiels Elliot – age 22 – Lieutenant, attached to 8th Battalion, Highland Light Infantry.
Alexander was educated at Glasgow Academy before joining his father's auctioneering business. He was commissioned in the 8th HLI in August 1914 and was amongst a number of men from the battalion who were seconded to the 1/7th Battalion of the Royal Scots for overseas service. He was promoted to Lieutenant in March 1915 and landed at Gallipoli in June but he was killed two weeks later during the battle at Gully Ridge.
Born 1892 in Lanark. Son of the late Ellen Elizabeth (Shiels) Elliot (died 1894) and of William Elliot of Muirglen, Lanark.
The family estate was at Harwood, Bonchester Bridge, Hobkirk.
Missing in Action on 28 June 1915 and named on the Helles Memorial, Gallipoli, Turkey.
Also named on an individual memorial on a family grave in Hobkirk Churchyard, on a stained glass window in St. Nicholas Church in Lanark, on the church memorial and on the Lanark War Memorial. _________________ Ken |
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stuartn
Joined: 13 Dec 2016 Posts: 2551
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Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2019 5:22 pm Post subject: WMR (ex UKNIWM) report |
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The Hobkirk Memorial is WMR 81318
The Lanark Memorial is WMR 81319 |
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