The Scottish Military Research Group - Commemorations Project

Mike Morley · Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2021 3:52 pm Post subject:

Name: ROXBURGH, ROBERT HUNTER
Initials: RH
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Lieutenant
Regiment/Service: Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, HMS Dulverton
Date of Death: 07/12/1942
Panel Reference: Panel 76, Column 3
Memorial: Portsmouth Naval Memorial.

Mike Morley · Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2021 3:58 pm Post subject:

Name: SHAW, GAVIN
Initials: G
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Lieutenant Colonel
Service Number: 39491
Regiment/Service: Welch Regiment, attd. 2nd Bn. Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment
Awards: Officer of the Order of the British Empire
Date of Death: 16/11/1943
Age: 36
Additional Information: Son of Maj. David Perston Shaw, formerly of The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles), and Helen Brown Shaw; husband of Grizel Shaw (nee Loudon), of St. Andrews, Fife.
Panel Reference: Face 6
Memorial: Athens Memorial.

Mike Morley · Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2021 4:02 pm Post subject:

Name: STEELE, JOHN LANG
Initials: JL
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Squadron Leader
Service Number: 121397
Regiment/Service: Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, 114 Sqdn
Awards: Distinguished Flying Cross
Date of Death: 9/12/1944
Age: 24
Additional Information: Son of Thomas Donald and Agnes Ingles Steel, of Lanark.
Grave Reference: VIII C 14
Cemetery: Faenza War Cemetery.

Also named on Lanark War Memorial.

Mike Morley · Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2021 4:08 pm Post subject:

Name: STRUTHERS, JOHN GARDNER
Initials: J G
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Sub-Lieutenant
Regiment/Service: Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, H.M.S. Kite.
Date of Death: 21/08/1944
Age: 21
Additional information: Son of Alexander Fulton Struthers and Elizabeth Margaret Struthers, of Milngavie, Dunbartonshire. B.A. (Cantab.).
Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 93, Column 1.
Memorial: Plymouth Naval Memorial.

And his brother:

Name: STRUTHERS, WILLIAM HUTCHISON
Initials: W H
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Lieutenant
Service No: 324950
Regiment/Service: Scots Guards
Date of Death: 26/04/1945
Age: 19
Additional information: Son of Alexander Fulton Struthers and Elizabeth Margaret Struthers, of Craigmaddie, Stirlingshire.
Grave/Memorial Reference: 1. C. 11.
Cemetery: Becklingen War Cemetery

Both are also named on Baldernock War Memorial.

Mike Morley · Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2021 7:26 pm Post subject:

Name: WARD, THOMAS WILSON
Initials: TW
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Flight Lieutenant
Service Number: 86336
Regiment/Service: Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, 254 Sqdn
Date of Death: 4/6/1942
Age: 23
Additional Information: Son of Thomas Kirkham Ward and Agnes Robertson Ward, of Glasgow. B.L. (Glasgow).
Panel Reference: Panel 66
Memorial: Runnymede Memorial.

Also named in the University of Glasgow Memorial Chapel.

Mike Morley · Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2021 7:30 pm Post subject:

These are the names I have been unable to identify:

WW1

Thomas Jackson
James Reid
Robert F Wright

WW2

Captain JHM Clark RNVR
Cadet I W Torrance RN