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dalblair
Joined: 26 Aug 2010 Posts: 564 Location: coupar angus
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Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2012 3:12 pm Post subject: |
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Designed by James Bow Dunn in 1921. |
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DerekR Moderator
Joined: 19 Dec 2006 Posts: 3013 Location: Hawick, Scotland
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Posted: Mon Aug 19, 2013 6:14 pm Post subject: |
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MACDOUGALL, DAVID GRAHAM MATHER
Rank:
Lieutenant
Date of Death:
27/07/1917
Age:
25
Regiment/Service:
King's Own Scottish Borderers
5th Bn. attd. 1st/3rd King's African Rifles
Grave Reference
4. F. 16.
Cemetery
DAR ES SALAAM WAR CEMETERY
Additional Information:
Son of Alexander and Helen Beattie Macdougall, of 10, Bank St., Annan, Dumfriesshire, Scotland. Born at Kelso, Scotland.
Lieutenant David Graham Mather MacDougall, The Kings Own Scottish Borderers, attd 1/3rd Btn The Kings African Rifles.
Born Kelso 11th September 1891. Son of Alexander and Helen Beattie Macdougall, of 10, Bank St., Annan, Dumfriesshire. He was educated in Kelso and at the Annan Academy. He served his apprenticeship in the Annan Branch of the Bank Of Scotland, passed the Associates Examination of the Bankers Institute, and obtained a situation in the Royal Bank of Canada in 1912.
He returned to England to take up Woolen Spinning in Hawick, but on the outbreak of war obtained a commission.
Served with the Expeditionary Force in German East Africa, and was Killed In Action at Ngangachi, near Kilwa on the 27th July 1917, and is buried in the Dar El Salaam War Cemetery.
His Colonel wrote 'I regret to have to inform you that your son was killed in action on the 27th of this month, gallantly leading his men against the enemy... I saw him shortly after he had been shot, but he had succumbed to his wounds, so I think his death must have been instantaneous. On behalf of myself and the officers of the 1/3rd battn, The Kings African Rifles, I would take this opportunity of expressing our deep sympathy with you in your very great loss. Although your son had only been with us such a very short time he took a keen interest in his work, and by his death I am sure the Kings African Rifles have lost a very valuable and gallant officer'
Also commemorated on the Annan War Memorial but not in Kelso. _________________
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DerekR Moderator
Joined: 19 Dec 2006 Posts: 3013 Location: Hawick, Scotland
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Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2014 8:11 pm Post subject: |
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The book "Kirkcudbright: An Alphabetical Guide To Its History" by David R.Collin, 2003, states that the Kirkcudbright War Memorial was cast in the foundry of McDonald & Creswick in Gorgie Road, Edinburgh.
The author then states that this company cast several other large statues including "Youth", the centre piece of Hawick's War Memorial. _________________
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73north
Joined: 14 Feb 2015 Posts: 6 Location: Galashiels
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Posted: Sun Sep 26, 2021 10:38 am Post subject: |
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Original Postcard of William Murray from Hawick
Served in Cameron Highlanders
Killed in Action Battle of the Aisne - no known grave
Date of Photo might be from 1914 ( or 1913 ) - his service papers did not survive but luckily , I found his obituary notice in the ' Hawick News ' and also
the Cameron Highlanders Regimental Association were able to give me his enlistment date in 1913 and other details .
I suspect the photo was cropped from a larger postcard ( its quite small )
and also his legs are visible in the photo in the Hawick News |
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