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ADP
Joined: 13 Jun 2008 Posts: 467 Location: Edinburgh
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Posted: Mon Jun 10, 2013 3:29 pm Post subject: |
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One of the WWII men commemorated in Corstorphine:
Name: WYE, DAVID GORDON
Rank: Lieutenant
Service No: 293210
Date of Death: 27/06/1944
Age: 28
Regiment/Service: Worcestershire Regiment 1st Bn.
Grave Reference: I. B. 3.
Cemetery: BROUAY WAR CEMETERY
Additional Information: Son of Jesse Middleton Wye and Mary Lucy Wye; husband of Mary Catherine Wye, of Edinburgh.
Also commemorated on the war memorial at the British Museum in London where he was a librarian (in what later became part of the British Library).
At his daughter's funeral today, it was also said that her father David Wye had served in the London Scottish before transferring to the Worcestershires.
Picture on page 16 of, and listed on page 17 of:
http://www.worcestershireregiment.com/dnld2/Worcs_Roll%20of%20Honour%20Booklet_4thEdition.pdf |
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DerekR Moderator
Joined: 19 Dec 2006 Posts: 3013 Location: Hawick, Scotland
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Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2014 7:21 pm Post subject: |
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THOMSON, CHARLES
Rank:
Private
Service No:
351431
Date of Death:
23/04/1917
Age:
27
Regiment/Service:
Royal Scots
9th Bn.
Panel Reference
Bay 1 and 2.
Memorial
ARRAS MEMORIAL
Additional Information:
Son of the Rev. Charles Logan Thomson, M.A., LL.D., and Agnes I. Thomson, of "Ashdene," 48, Belgrave Rd., Corstorphine, Edinburgh.
Also commemorated on St.Ninian's Church memorial and on the Hawick Roll of Honour _________________
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DerekR Moderator
Joined: 19 Dec 2006 Posts: 3013 Location: Hawick, Scotland
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Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2014 7:29 pm Post subject: |
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ISLES, CHARLES R.
Rank:
Serjeant
Service No:
352353
Date of Death:
20/09/1917
Regiment/Service:
Royal Scots
9th Bn.
Panel Reference
Panel 11 to 14 and 162.
Memorial
TYNE COT MEMORIAL
Additional Information:
Brother of Jessie R. Isles, of 3, Belgrave Terrace, Corstorphine, Edinburgh.
Also commemorated on the Hawick Roll of Honour _________________
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