The Scottish Military Research Group - Commemorations Project

dhubthaigh · Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 7:04 pm Post subject: CLACKMANNAN

'S' added after Great War

dhubthaigh · Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 7:07 pm Post subject:

dhubthaigh · Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 7:10 pm Post subject:

Very similar to Newport & Forgan;
http://warmemscot.s4.bizhat.com/viewtopic.php?t=2670&highlight=newport

DerekR · Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2008 8:11 am Post subject:

Name: COOK
Initials: Henry
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)
Unit Text: 9th Bn.
Date of Death: 23/04/1917
Service No: 291279
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: I. D. 7.
Cemetery: GUEMAPPE BRITISH CEMETERY, WANCOURT
SDGW states: born Clackmannan, enlisted Lochgelly.

I can't see his name on the above memorial.

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

DelBoy · Posted: Mon Oct 14, 2013 12:54 pm Post subject: Memorial Transcription

TO THE
GLORY OF GOD
AND IN MEMORY
OF THE MEN OF
CLACKMANNAN
WHO GAVE THEIR
LIVES IN THE
GREAT WARS

Pte. A. Anderson
Sgt. W. Bathgate
Sgt.Maj. J. Barrett
Pte. D. Begg
Pte. A. Birrell
Pte. J. Birrell
Pte. W. Birrell
Pte. T. Bolton
Cpt. The Hon R. Bruce Master of Burleigh
Lieut. F. Burns M.C.
Pte. J. Burnside
Pte. A. Clark
Pte. T. Condie
Pte. D. Cook
Pte. J. Cook
Pte. R. David
Pte. J. Davis
L.Cpl. M. Devlin
Pte. J. Fogo
L.Cpl. A. Forsyth
Pte. P. Gardiner
Pte. P. Gardiner
Pte. J. Geddes
Pte. W. Graham
Lt. P. Harrower M.C.
Pte. J. Howie
Pte. J. Hughes
Pte. W. Hunter
Cpl. A. Hutton
Lt. K.R.B. Kershaw
Pte. J. King
Pte. R. McBeath
Pte. F. McDermot
Pte. W. McDonald
Pte. J. McFarlane
Pte. J. McFarlane
Cpl. H. McLean
Pte. W. McLean
Pte. J. Mackie
Pte. J. Mill M.M.
Pte. R. Mill
Pte. W. Morrison
Lieut. T. Munro
Pte. W. Morrison
Lieut. T. Munro
Pte. T. Nicholson
Pte. G. Ramage
Maj. A Snaddon
Pte. D. Sneddon
Pte. J. Somerville
Sgt. A. Terry
L.Cpl. J. Watson
Pte. D. Wylie
Sister M. McCallum

THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE

1939 - 1945

Archibald, R.B.F.
Binnie, J.
Brand, A.
Cook, J.
Edwards, W.
Garmory, R.
Hall, J.F.
Hepburn, J.
Hogg, G.
Lindsay, J.
McCard, J.
McGhie, J.A.J.M.
Paterson, J.
Philp, F.
Powell, J.H.C.
Ramage, A.
Reid, W.
Russell, C.D.
Tallis, A.
Tallis, J.
Young, J.

DelBoy · Posted: Mon Oct 14, 2013 12:59 pm Post subject: Pte. Thomas Bolton

WW1
Pte. T. Bolton

(Glasgow Herald 27th May 1915)
"Mr Henry Bolton, Clackmannan, has been notified that his son, Private Thomas Bolton, of the 7th (Territorial) Battalion of the A. and S. H., was killed in action on Sunday, May 17. Private Bolton was employed in the counting house of Hilton Brick and Tile Works."

CWGC
BOLTON, T
Rank: Private
Service No: 2144
Date of Death: 16/05/1915
Age: 19
Regiment/Service: Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders 1st/7th Bn.
Grave Reference: XXVII. C. 5.
Cemetery: NEW IRISH FARM CEMETERY
Additional Information: Son of Henry and Clementina Bolton, of 6, Kirk Place, Clackmannan.

SNWM
Surname: BOLTON
Firstname: Thomas
Service Number: 2144
Date Death: 16/05/1915
Place of birth: Clackmannan
Other: 1/7th Bn.
SNWM roll: THE ARGYLL AND SUTHERLAND HIGHLANDERS
Rank: Pte
Theatre of death: F.& F.

anne park · Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2016 7:06 am Post subject: Alexander Birrell GH

Alexander Birrell L/Cpl 260010 5th Gordon Highlanders b Clackmannan e Clackmannan Killed in Action F&F 18/04/1917 Soldiers Effects: Mother: Elizabeth. Soldiers Will 4 pages. Arras Memorial M. R. 20 Panel 8 & 9
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anne park

Name: William Birrell
Birth Place: Clackmannan, Clackmannanshire
Death Date: 25 Sep 1915
Death Place: France and Flanders
Enlistment Place: Dunblane, Perthshire
Rank: L Corporal
Regiment: Seaforth Highlanders
Battalion: 7th Battalion
Regimental Number: S/2502
Type of Casualty: Killed in action
Theatre of War: Western European Theatre

Soldiers Effects: Mo: Elizabeth
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Kenneth Morrison · Posted: Thu Nov 17, 2022 12:26 pm Post subject:

PTE. J. BURNSIDE

Named on the Dirleton Parish War Memorial in East Lothian as:

J.H. BURNSIDE
James Hood Burnside – age 20 – Private (352369) 1/9th (Highlanders) Battalion, Royal Scots.
John was living in Clackmannan when he enlisted and he joined the 2nd Royal Scots in France as Private (5700) in October 1915. At some point he transferred to the 1/9th Royal Sccots and he died in the 61st Casualty Clearing Station at Westvleteren.
Born 1897 in Dirleton. Son of John and Isabella Hood (Burnside) Burnside of Park Gardens, Dirleton.
Died of Wounds on 21 August 1917 and buried in Dozinghem Military Cemetery, Belgium.
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Ken