Rememberance Day Memorial

[puffin]

This is just to encourage more postings, as Remembrance Day approaches, on this string, in addition to remembering your relative you never know quite know what might happen.

Look at the Success string for my relative Russell Lyon, that I posted about this time last year.

Since then my life has been transformed with contact from lovely people in France, the re-opening of an official enquiry into possible grave identifiaction, followed by my research into his RAF Service, attendance at the 90th Anniversary Reunion Weekend for 234 Squadron, and meeting of people whom knew and flew with my uncle, and then just last weekend I made contact with someone whose name I had been given who lives less than ten miles away who had folders of her fathers RAF material including photos of my uncle, and her father's pilot log book in which the entry for 27th July 1944 has the record of my uncles plane not returning from the mission in which 8 Spitfires flew from RAF Predannack on 27.7.1944 and only 6 returned.

God bless all those who are remembered here on this string now and tomorrow.

Puffin

[Cathy]

Private JAMES SAVAGE
Regiment: Gordon Highlanders Unit Text: 4th Bn.
Date of Death: 25/09/1915 Service No: 3876 Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 38. Cemetery: YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL

Copy of death notice information:
No. 17908 Pte. JAS B.D. SMITH. 11th Batt. Cameronians. Str. No. 2 Section 77 Batt. M.G. Coy. Salonica Forces. --- (piece missing, paper very fragile). Joined on 24th February 1915 killed on 15th March 1917.

Name: BROOKS, JAMES SMITH Initials: J S
Nationality: United Kingdom Rank: Able Seaman Regiment/Service: Royal Navy Unit Text: H.M.S. Neptune.
Age: 30 Date of Death: 19/12/1941 Service No: D/JX126623
Additional information:
Son of William and Annie Smith Brooks, of Glasgow; husband of Elizabeth McGhee Brooks, of Glasgow.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead Grave/Memorial Reference: 5. D. 13. Cemetery: TRIPOLI WAR CEMETERY

[djcrtoye]

Recently found gggreat uncle Private Daniel Hendry resting far away from his ain folk, date of death 21-10-1917, Salonkia Military Cemetery.
Rest in Peace.

[Rach]

In memory of GEORGE LAING who died 16 Feb 1916.
He served with the K.O.S.B; the Cameron Highlanders of Canada and finally with the Canadian Expeditionary Force.
Buried in the Brookside Cemetery, Manitoba.
Son of James Laing and Jane White.
[Originally from Coldingham, Berwickshire].

[caljam371]

Jonathan Towns Private 267776, 6th (Perthshire) Battalion (Territorial Force), Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)
Killed in action during the 3rd Battle of Ypres on Tuesday, 31st July 1917. Age 36.
Born at Montrose and enlisted at Edinburgh.

[marilyn morning]

Private William Morning
Highland Light Infantry
Died on Active Service
d. 20 June 1915

[Elizabeth H]

In memory of my cousin, Private James Inglis
Tank Corps Born in Greenock, Renfrew

Date died: 29 September 1918
KIA Flanders Fields

[LesleyB]

In memory of:

Lieutenant James Percival McNicol, 1897-1918, , 4th Battalion, Argyll and Southern Highlanders, later 10th Battalion, died near Doullens, Somme http://talkingscot.com/gallery/displayi ... p?pos=-887

Sapper Edwin Forbes Dick, 1896-1916, Royal Engineers Unit, 1st/1st Edinburgh Field Coy, died near Les Beoufs, Somme.

Major Hugh John Duff, 1883 - 1918, DSO, MC, Cameron Highlanders, 10th (Lovat's Scouts) Bn. killed in action.

[Alcluith]

Private<b> James Davidson</b> 1st Btn Royal Scot Fusiliers - 24th Nov 1914 died from wounds a POW.
Corporal<b> John Davidson</b> 2nd Btn Gordon Highlanders - 19th Aug 1916
Private<b> Robert Arthur Usher</b> 27th Tyneside Irish Btn Northumberland Fusiliers - 24th April 1917
Private<b> Donald James</b> 6th Btn Loyal North Lancs - 23rd Sept 1918 drowned in India recovering from wounds.
Pilot Officer<b> Cecil "Charlie" Reginald Young</b> 1, 615, 607 & 46 Sqn RAF - 5th Dec 1940 aged 20 Years
Ordinary Seaman<b> Andrew Fraser Davidson</b> HMS Barham - 25th Nov 1941 aged 18 years
Private<b> Duncan McArthur</b> 2nd Btn A&SH - 13th Feb 1942 in Burma
Gunner<b> Alfred Usher</b> 132 Field Reg Royal Artillery - 3rd Dec 1942 Tunizia

Drew Davidson

[marilyn morning]

While I was scrolling through a disk sent to me from my long distant family from across the pond, I came across this telegram for Thomas Nornan and sadly they didn't even spell his last name correctly It should read Thomas Mornin. Some of the Mornin family in Ireland dropped the "g" from the surname.

http://talkingscot.com/gallery/displayi ... ?pos=-1421

Regards
Marilyn