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spoons
Joined: 09 Jan 2007 Posts: 4991 Location: St John's Town of Dalry
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Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2011 10:31 pm Post subject: St Andrews Church, Ayr |
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Not listed on UKNIWM
Location - St Andrews Church, Park Circus Ayr, OS Map Ref NS 337 212
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Adam Brown Curator
Joined: 14 Dec 2006 Posts: 7312 Location: Edinburgh (From Sutherland)
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Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2011 10:55 pm Post subject: |
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An interesting middle name on the Great War plaque. Hans
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Jim
Joined: 30 May 2008 Posts: 195
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Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2011 11:00 pm Post subject: |
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He seems to have been born in Orkney. I don't know for sure but I wonder, given the location and seafaring heritage, if unusual given names are more commonplace there (and in Shetland?). |
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anne park Our first ever 2000 poster
Joined: 25 Sep 2007 Posts: 21200 Location: Aberdeen
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Posted: Sun Aug 14, 2011 5:50 am Post subject: John Hans Tait info |
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Name: John H Tait
Age: 6
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1895
Relationship: Son
Father's name: Alexander H Tait
Mother's name: Maggie Tait
Gender: Male
Where born: St Andrews, Orkney
Registration Number: 25
Registration district: St Andrews
Civil parish: St Andrews
County: Orkney
Address: Quoyburray
Occupation: Scholar |
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anne park Our first ever 2000 poster
Joined: 25 Sep 2007 Posts: 21200 Location: Aberdeen
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Posted: Sun Aug 14, 2011 5:58 am Post subject: Checking on family trees for John Hans Tait.... |
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I found details of John Hume Tait so maybe not the right man |
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Adam Brown Curator
Joined: 14 Dec 2006 Posts: 7312 Location: Edinburgh (From Sutherland)
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Posted: Sun Aug 14, 2011 8:40 am Post subject: Tait |
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He is listed under the KOSB section of the town's memorial.
TAIT, JOHN HANS
Initials: J H
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private (Signaller)
Regiment/Service; King's Own Scottish Borderers
Unit Text: 1st Bn.
Age: 32
Date of Death: 11/04/1918
Service No: 202807
Additional information: Brother of Violet A. W. Tait, of 52, Ashgrove St., Ayr.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 5.
Memorial: PLOEGSTEERT MEMORIAL |
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Kenneth Morrison
Joined: 29 Sep 2008 Posts: 7761 Location: Rockcliffe Dalbeattie
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Posted: Sun Aug 14, 2011 4:04 pm Post subject: |
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The SIMKINs look to be brothers - and died one day apart
Name: SIMKIN, KENNETH CHARLES
Initials: K C
Nationality: Australian
Rank: Corporal
Regiment/Service: Australian Infantry
Unit Text: A.I.F. 2/2 Bn.
Age: 27
Date of Death: 17/04/1941
Service No: NX1413
Additional information: Son of Walter William and Elsie Simkin; husband of Edith Eileen Simkin, of Scone, New South Wales, Australia.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: 2. D. 7.
Cemetery: PHALERON WAR CEMETERY Greece
Name: SIMKIN, WILFRED EDWARD
Initials: W E
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Lieutenant
Regiment/Service: Royal Naval Reserve
Unit Text: H.M.S. Fiona
Age: 30
Date of Death: 18/04/1941
Additional information: Son of Walter William and Alice Henrietta Simkin, of Ayr; husband of Mav Sinclair Simkin.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 60, Column 1.
Memorial: PLYMOUTH NAVAL MEMORIAL
Convoy service ship FIONA (R, 2,190t, 1927), was sunk by aircraft off Sidi Barrani, Egypt _________________ Ken |
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stuartn
Joined: 13 Dec 2016 Posts: 2551
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Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2018 10:06 pm Post subject: WMR (ex UKNIWM) number |
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WMR 85086 |
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