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Adam Brown
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 15, 2012 1:00 pm    Post subject: Flora Stevenson Primary School WW2 Reply with quote

Location: Stairwell, entrance hall, Flora Stevenson Primary School, Comely Bank Road, Edinburgh.

There is a wooden war memorial plaque in the entrance hall to this school. It lists 38 names from the Second World War.

I will post the photographs later.

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PostPosted: Wed Aug 15, 2012 10:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The photographs are not as clear as I'd hoped. I will get the names transcribed.



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PostPosted: Wed Aug 15, 2012 10:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The first name is Nurse Marie Jarman RN

JARMAN, MARIE
Rank:Sister
Service No:274755
Date of Death:12/02/1944
Regiment/Service:Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service
Panel ReferencePanel 22. Column 2.
MemorialBROOKWOOD

I've taken the next bit from another thread where Tonym listed nurses lost on the SS. Khedive Ismail

Tonym wrote:
A casualty of the sinking of the SS. Khedive Ismail that was en-route from Mombasa, East Africa to Colombo, Ceylon(Sri Lanka). The third worst shipping disaster of WW2.

She was hit by two torpedoes fired by the Japanese submarine I-27. She is reported to have sunk within two minutes taking 1,297 of the ship's 1,511 complement with her.

The casualties included 44 Queen Alexandra's Sisters - 7 East African Military Nurses - 17 Wrens and 8 Women's Territorial Service (East Africa).

The Khedive Ismail was the 14th victim of Captain Toshiaki Fukumura's submarine but his luck ran out three hours later when his sub was blown in half by a torpedo from HMS Petard with no survivors.

The above details extracted from "Passage to Destiny" by Brian James Crabb

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PostPosted: Thu Aug 16, 2012 7:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks Adam

One more for the record. Still got a few Scottish 'Ladies in Waiting' for their graves

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Pte. W. BROWN, Middlesex Regiment, K.I.A Battle of The Somme.
Sgt. J. V. MURPHY, The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders, D.O.W Monte Cassino, Italy.
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 17, 2012 10:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Is this the same building that was used as a Military Hospital in WW1?
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 18, 2012 4:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yes,its the same building. Its quite close to the main military hospital in Edinburgh in WW1 -Craigleith (nowadays the Western General). It was built 1899-1900 and so would be a reasonably modern building in 1914.

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PostPosted: Sun Aug 19, 2012 9:14 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks for that - I've a Kirkpatrick Durham man who died there.
James Carruther Little – age 24 – Private (31269) 3rd (Reserve) Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers.
Enlisted June 1917. Died while in training, 8 October 1917, of pneumonia in the Flora Stevenson Hospital, Edinburgh.
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 20, 2012 9:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'll see about getting a photograph of the building on here too then.

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