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DALKEITH, Midlothian Constabulary, tablet (WW1)

 
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 31, 2014 8:51 pm    Post subject: DALKEITH, Midlothian Constabulary, tablet (WW1) Reply with quote

Midlothian Constabulary Great War Memorial
Location: Dalkeith Police Station

Thanks to John Duncan for providing us with this photograph




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PostPosted: Wed Aug 30, 2023 12:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Named on the Ormiston Parish War Memorial (but I'm not sure why) as:

RAMSAY VICKERS

Ramsay Vickers – age 25 – Lance Corporal (S/12179) 10th Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders.
Ramsay had been a police constable at Dalkeith and at Cramond before enlisting. He joined his battalion in France in October 1915.
(Source: Dalkeith Advertiser 23/11/1916 p.2 and Medal Roll/Card)
Born 1891 in West Calder, Midlothian as Ramsay Carden Vickers. Son of Ramsay and Agnes (Stevenson) Vickers. Husband of Mary (Ballantyne) Vickers who he married in 1913 in Penicuik, Midlothian.
Missing in Action on 18 July 1916 and named on the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme, France.
Also named on the Penicuik War Memorial and on the West Calder Parish Church memorial.
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