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mhomac



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PostPosted: Wed Sep 17, 2014 10:12 pm    Post subject: Edinburgh University Club. Reply with quote

After some research, we believe this Memorial to be from the University Club, Edinburgh.It is situated within the New Club, Edinburgh.

Thanks are due to Ms. Wendy Maynard for allowing permission to photograph the Memorial.
The quality of the pictures is not great and I will return to retake them.

The crest at the top of the Memorial.

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PostPosted: Wed Sep 17, 2014 10:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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PostPosted: Thu Sep 18, 2014 6:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Where is the New Club in Edinburgh?
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 18, 2014 7:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Derek - if memory serves me right (so no guarantee) it's opposite the Floral Clock. On Google street view it's between H&M and Foot Locker.
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 18, 2014 10:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The Club is at 86 Princes Street, Edinburgh. It's a little brown door between H&M and, I think, Gap.
Unless a member, you need permission before you can enter. (A bit like the secret service!)
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 20, 2014 6:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I had initially thought that the memorial was somehow related to Edinburgh Uni but I'm now thinking that this was a wholly seperate University Club which was a "members only" club?
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 20, 2014 8:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Derek, you might be right.

Took this comment from the New Club twitter/newsletter of last year.....

Excellent 'Voices of War' on Fri as the Club's pre-Armistice Day event. 36 came, followed by a service at the University Club's memorial.

Some of the names on the Memorial are listed on the Edinburgh University Students Representative Council roll of Honour.

It's a guessing game as to where the memorial actually came from. My contact at the new Club has no idea.
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 10, 2014 8:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

World War 2 memorial which is at the bottom of the World War 1 Memorial.

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PostPosted: Sat Oct 11, 2014 5:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Where is the Edinburgh University Students Representative Council roll of Honour held?
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 11, 2014 7:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

From http://rememberedfaces.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/colonel-john-james-mcintosh-shaw-mc.html#!/2014/09/colonel-john-james-mcintosh-shaw-mc.html

Colonel John James McIntosh Shaw.
Date of Death:10/09/1940
Age:54
Regiment/Service:Royal Army Medical Corps
Awards:M C, Croix de Guerre
Grave Reference: P. 253, Cairo War Memorial Cemetery

Additional Information: Son of John and Isabella McIntosh Shaw; husband of Mina Draper Shaw, of Barnton, Midlothian. M.A., M.D., F.R.C.S., F.R.S.

J. James M. Shaw, M.C., Croix de Guerre with Star, Colonel, Royal Army Medical Corps, son of the late Mr. and Mrs. J. Shaw, Leith, was born at Port Glasgow in 1885, and attended Watson's from 1894 to 1902. Entering Edinburgh University, he graduated M.A. in 1906, M.B. in 1909, M.D. in 1913 and F.R.C.S. Edinburgh. During the first world war he served in France as a Major in the R.A.M.C., was awarded the M.C. and the Croix de Guerre with Star, and was twice mentioned in dispatches. In his subsequent career he became one of Edinburgh's leading surgeons and a foremost pioneer in plastic surgery, besides devoting much attention to the use of radium and X-ray Therapy in the treatment of malignant disease. On both of these subjects he made many contributions to medical literature. On the outbreak of the second world war he was appointed Consultant Surgeon to the British Army in the Field, and in the early summer of 1940 went overseas as Consulting Surgeon to the Forces in the Middle East. He died in Egypt in September 1940 of an acute attack of dysentery.
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 11, 2014 8:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

DerekR
I am not sure where the actual Edinburgh University Students Representative Council Roll of Honour is held but you can see a list of names on the Edinburgh's War website.
It is listed on the Roll of Honour page under Education.
"Edinburgh University Students' Representative Council Memorial Service and Roll of Honour".

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PostPosted: Sun Oct 12, 2014 9:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

DerekR wrote:
Where is the Edinburgh University Students Representative Council roll of Honour held?

mhomac wrote:
DerekR
I am not sure where the actual Edinburgh University Students Representative Council Roll of Honour is held but you can see a list of names on the Edinburgh's War website.

My guess is it could be Teviot Row House, aka "the Student Union", on the south side of Bristo Square. It's the original union - the SRC meet in its Debating Hall or Dining Room.

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PostPosted: Tue Oct 14, 2014 10:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The first name on the Second World War list

BUIST, CHARLES EDWARD ASHTON
Rank: Lieutenant
Date of Death: 21/02/1944
Age: 22
Regiment/Service: Royal Navy H.M.M.A.S. 546.
Grave Reference:2. B. 10.
Cemetery: BIGUGLIA WAR CEMETERY
Additional Information: Son of Alexander Allerdice Buist and of Margaret Eileen Buist (nee Ashton), of Kelso, Roxburghshire.

His Majesty's Motoscafo Armato Silurante 546 was a captured Italian MTB which hit a German mine on 21st February 1944 which killed Lieutenant Buist.

He is also listed on the Eckford War Memorial in the Borders

http://warmemscot.s4.bizhat.com/viewtopic.php?t=7628

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