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PostPosted: Mon Jul 30, 2018 12:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

ALBERT JARDINE, R.N.
Albert Jardine – age 28 – Chief Petty Officer (D/SSX 17848) H.M.S. Lapwing, Royal Navy.
Albert was educated at Sanquhar Public School and had joined the navy in 1936. On 11 March 1945 the sloop “Lapwing” joined to provide close escort for Russian Convoy JW65 with two destroyers and seven corvettes for defence during passage to Kola Inlet in Northern Russia. On the 20 March she was hit amidships by a torpedo fired from the German submarine U968 off the Kola Inlet. The ship broke in two but stern section remained afloat for 20 minutes which enabled some survivors to be rescued. There were 61 survivors, but 158 men died. Albert saved a number of his crewmates and was the last man to be pulled onto his liferaft but he died of exposure and was later buried at sea. His son Kenneth Albert was born on 29 March, nine days after his death
Born 1916 in Sanquhar. Son of William Mowbray Jardine and Marie Lena (McIntyre) Jardine of 1 Renwick Place, Sanquhar. Husband of Doris May (Down) Jardine of 10 Park Street, Drake's Circus, Plymouth who he married in 1941 in Sanquhar.
Killed in Action and buried at Sea on 20 March 1945 and named on the Plymouth Naval Memorial, Devon.
Also named on the Sanquhar War Memorial.


ANDREW JOHNSTONE, R.A.F.
Andrew Johnstone – age 28 – Flight Sergeant/Air Gunner(659129) 50 Squadron, Bomber Command, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.
Andrew was educated at Sanquhar Public School and was employed by Thomas Gray and Sons, butchers in Sanquhar when he enlisted. Andrew's Lancaster bomber had taken off from RAF Skellingthorpe near Lincoln for a raid on Ladbergen north of Munster but the aircraft crashed at Zelhem near Arnhem.
Born 1916 in New Cumnock, Ayrshire. Son of Thomas and Mary Ann (Graham) of New Cumnock, of Sanquhar and of Crosskirk Cottage, Peebles. Husband of Elizabeth Mary (Carruthers) Johnstone of 29 Queen's Road, Sanquhar who he married in 1937 in Dumfries.
Killed in Action on 23 September 1944 and buried in Zelhem General Cemetery, Netherlands.
Also named on the Sanquhar School memorial.


PETER KENNY, KOSB.
Peter Kenny – age 21 – Lance Corporal (3190202) 5th Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers.
Peter was educated at Sanquhar Public School and worked at Fauldhead Colliery, Kirkconnel when he enlisted. He was acting as navigator on a caterpillar vehicle, and was crossing the Tak-me-Doun Road near Berryhill Farm in Kilsyth, Stirlingshire when the vehicle ran an embankment and fell over onto him.
Born 1919 in Kirkconnel. Son of the late Bridget (McKenna) Kenny and of William Johnston Kenny of Kellobank, Kirkconnel. Husband of Agnes Jess (Williamson) Kenny of New Cumnock, Ayrshire who he married in 1938 in New Cumnock.
Died on Service on 25 November 1940 and buried in Kirkconnel Cemetery. (CWG)
Also named on the Kirkconnel War Memorial and on the Kirkconnel Parish Church memorial.
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JOHN LOVE, R.A.
John Love – age 28 – Sergeant (1682983) 82 Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery.
John was educated at Sanquhar Public School and was employed on the clerical staff of Bairds and Dalmellington Ltd. in their Sanquhar office. He enlisted in September 1940 and spent over two years with his unit in Gibraltar before they returned to their home county of Essex. John became ill and died in hospital in Chelmsford.
Born 1916 in Sanquhar. Son of Jessie Love and stepson of Hugh Black of 3 Buccleuch Road, Sanquhar. They married in 1921 in Sanquhar.
Died on Active Service on 15 February 1945 and buried in Sanquhar Parish Churchyard Extension. (CWG)
Also named on the Sanquhar War Memorial and on the St. Ninian's Church memorial.


WILLIAM MUIRHEAD, LONDON SCOTTISH
William Muirhead – age 24 – Private (3195326) 1st Battalion, The London Scottish, Gordon Highlanders.
William was educated at Sanquhar Public School and was a dairyman at The Drum farm in Thornhill when he enlisted in the King's Own Scottish Borderers. He was posted to the London Scottish and served in Palestine, North Africa, Sicily and Italy.
Born 1919 in Sanquhar. Son of John and Elizabeth (Geddes) Muirhead of Langside, Wamphray, Dumfriesshire and of Johnstone Bridge, Dumfriesshire.
Killed in Action on 12 January 1944 and buried in Minturno War Cemetery, Italy.
Also named on the Wamphray Parish War memorial.


ANDREW McDOWALL, SEAFORTH H.
Andrew McRobert McDowall – age 19 – Private (14213345) 2nd Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders.
Andrew was educated at Sanquhar Public School and served his time as a painter in Sanquhar before he enlisted. He was a keen local football player with Kello Rovers and the team held a minute's silence in his memory before the start of their first game of the season in August 1943. The 2nd Seaforths landed on Sicily on 10 July 1943 as part of the 51st (Highland) Division.
Born 1923 in Sanquhar. Son of Robert Welsh McDowall and Maggie Jane (Inglis) McDowall of 44 Renwick Place, Sanquhar.
Killed in Action on 19 July 1943 and buried in Catania War Cemetery, Sicily, Italy.
Also named on the Sanquhar War Memorial.
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GEORGE F. McINTOSH, ROYAL MARINES.
George Fleming MacIntosh – age 19 – Marine (PLY/X 106069) H.M.S. Carlisle, Royal Marines.
George was educated at Sanquhar Public School.
The light cruiser “Carlisle” was sailing with the destroyers “Panther” and “Rockwood” in the area south of Piraeus in order to intercept German convoys in the Scarpanto Strait when they came under air-attack from German JU87 dive bombers. The “Carlisle” received four direct hits and 20 of the ship's company were killed and 17 wounded.
Born 1924 in Sanquhar as McIntosh. Son of Alexander and Marion (Fleming) McIntosh of Bridgend, Mennock, Sanquhar.
Killed in Action/Lost at sea on 9 October 1943 and named on the Plymouth Naval Memorial, Devon.
Also named on the Sanquhar War Memorial and on the St. Ninian's Church memorial.


ALEXANDER McMILLAN, R.A.F.
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Alexander Crawford McMillan – age 22 – Staff Sergeant( 6296502) The Glider Pilot Regiment, Army Air Corps.
Alexander was educated at Sanquhar Public School and enlisted in the Royal East Kent Regiment (The Buffs) in 1940 when he was 18. Later he was transferred to the Glider Pilot Regiment.
The first of the Horsa gliders landed at Arnhem on the first day of the battle, Sunday 17 September 1944, carrying the 1st Airlanding Brigade to secure the drop zones for the Parachute Regiment. The Glider Pilots fought alongside their Airborne colleagues until 25 September when the survivors were withdrawn to cross back over the Rhine.
Born 1922 in Sanquhar. Son of Archibald and Grace Malcolm (Crawford) McMillan of 19 Queen's Road, Sanquhar.
Missing in Action on 25 September 1944 and named on the Groesbeek Memorial, Gelderland, Netherlands.
Also named on the Sanquhar War Memorial as Alexr. C. McMillan, GLIDER PILOT REGIMENT.


ROBERT E SCOTT, R.A.F.
Robert Eccles Scott – age 21 – Sergeant (1126204) 429 (R.C.A.F.) Squadron, Bomber Command, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.
Robert was educated at Sanquhar Public School.
429 (Bison) Squadron of the Royal Canadian Air Force was formed at RAF East Moor in Yorkshire in November 1942. Robert's Wellington bomber had taken off from East Moor for a raid on Bochum, near Dortmund in Germany, but was lost over the North Sea. Only the body of the pilot, David Lachlan Bain (RCAF) from Vancouver, was recovered and he is buried in Esbjerg, Denmark.
Born 1922 in Dryfesdale, Dumfriesshire. Son of James and Jane (Eccles) Scott of Kirkconnel.
Missing in Action on 30 March 1943 and named on the Runnymede Memorial, Surrey.
Also named on the Kirkconnel War Memorial and on the Kirkconnel Parish Church memorial.
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JOHN T. B. SHARP, R.A.
Not listed by CWGC.
The Dumfries and Galloway Standard of 9/10/1943 reported:
SANQUHAR SOLDIER’S DEATH. His many friends in Sanquhar will learn with regret of the death of John Sharp, Royal Artillery, which took place at Stirling on 27th September. A son of Councillor and Mrs George Sharp, Renwick Place, he gave up a good going hairdressing shop in Stirling to serve his country in the present war. After the outbreak of war he joined the Royal Artillery, and was on active service in the Middle East. He was invalided out of the army a few months ago, but his condition gradually became worse and his death was not unexpected. A quiet and likeable lad, he had many friends in his native town of Sanquhar. After leaving school he was apprenticed to Mr W. Kerr, hairdresser, High Street, Sanquhar, and afterwards commenced business on his own account in Stirling. He leaves a widow and two young children, who reside at Stirling, and to them and his bereaved parents much sympathy his extended. His elder brother is also serving out East.

John died on 27 September 1943 of tuberculosis in the Ochill Hills Sanatorium, Milnathort Hospital in Orwell Parish, Kinross.
He had been born in 1913 in Sanquhar as John Twynholm Sharp, the second son of George and Annie Maclean (Twynholm) Sharp of 19 Renwick Place, Sanquhar. He married Isabella F. Hamilton of 28 Newhouse, Stirling in 1939 in Stirling.
Also named on the Stirling War Memorial.


WILLIAM STENHOUSE, R.A.F.
William Elliott Stenhouse – age 22 – Pilot Officer/Pilot (145346) 7 Squadron, Bomber Command, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.
Elliott was educated at Sanquhar Public School and at Wallace Hall Academy in Dumfriesshire before entering the Royal (Dick) Veterinary College in Edinburgh in June 1937. He had passed four years of the course when he enlisted in 1941. He was trained as a pilot in the USA and he was commissioned from Sergeant (1551780) in April 1943. He was injured in August when his Stirling bomber, which had developed a serious engine problem during a raid on Hamburg, crashed on landing at RAF Oakington in Cambridgeshire. Elliott's new aircraft, a Lancaster bomber, had taken off from Oakington for a raid on Hannover but the aircraft crashed at Geest-Munde, Bremerhaven and the crew were buried in Bremen-Walle Cemetery but were re-interred in Becklingen in March 1947.
Born 1921 in Sanquhar. Son of Alexander and Annie Frances (Elliott) Stenhouse of St. Mary Street, Sanquhar.
Killed in Action on 22 September 1943 and buried in Becklingen War Cemetery, Germany.
Also named on the Sanquhar War Memorial, on the St. Ninian's Church memorial. and on the Royal (Dick) Veterinary College memorial and Roll of Honour.
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