Kenneth Morrison
Joined: 29 Sep 2008 Posts: 7749 Location: Rockcliffe Dalbeattie
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Posted: Wed May 05, 2021 1:47 pm Post subject: James Holywell of Aberfeldy |
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James Holywell is named on the Aberfeldy War Memorial as Trooper, Scottish Horse.
Does anyone know what he was doing in Perthshire and what is the Scottish Horse connection????
I assume that he is this man listed on the SDGW as:
Name: James Thomson Holywell
Birth Place: Duns, Berwick
Death Date: 17 Nov 1917
Death Place: France and Flanders
Enlistment Place: Aberfeldy
Rank: Private
Regiment: Machine Gun Corps
Battalion: (Infantry)
Regimental Number: 66799
Type of Casualty: Killed in action
Theatre of War: Western European Theatre
Comments: Formerly 34563, R. Scots.
He is named on the Duns Burgh and Parish War Memorial (together with his brother Henry) as:
PRIVATE J. T. HOLYWELL
James Thomson Holywell – age 22 – Private (66799) 117th Company, Machine Gun Corps.
Born 1895 in Duns. Son of James Walter Holywell and of Christina Veitch (Halliday) Holywell of Kilnknowe, Coldingham, Berwickshire.
Missing in Action – 17 November 1917 and named on the Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium.
Also named on the Duns Parish Church memorial and on the Coldingham Parish Church memorial. _________________ Ken |
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