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IanA
Joined: 19 Dec 2006 Posts: 949
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Posted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 3:33 pm Post subject: Oxnam -WW2 |
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This poor quality tablet in honour of two men killed in the Second World War was taken at long range through a window as the kirk was locked.
F/O Robert Simpson Bruce, R.A.F.
C.Q.M.S. Thomas Hall, K.O.S.B. |
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Adam Brown Curator
Joined: 14 Dec 2006 Posts: 7312 Location: Edinburgh (From Sutherland)
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Posted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 4:45 pm Post subject: |
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That's a pretty good photo considering the circumstances!
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stuartn
Joined: 13 Dec 2016 Posts: 2551
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Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2018 8:17 am Post subject: WMR (ex UKNIWM) number |
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WMR 78803 |
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Kenneth Morrison
Joined: 29 Sep 2008 Posts: 7760 Location: Rockcliffe Dalbeattie
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F/O. ROBERT SIMPSON BRUCE, R.A.F.
Robert Simpson Bruce age 20 Flying Officer/Pilot (164005) 184 Squadron, Second Tactical Air Force, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.
Robert was educated at Trinity College Glenalmond, Perthshire and joined the RAF from there in 1942. He trained as a fighter pilot in Canada and was commissioned from Leading Aircraftman (1567961) to Pilot Officer in February 1944. He was promoted to Flying Officer in August. The squadron were flying Hawker Typhoon fighter/bombers and in March 1945 were one of the first to operate from German soil. At the end of the war in May the squadron spent a little time at RAF Warmwell in Dorset before flying to their new base at Schleswig near the Danish border. Robert's Typhoon suffered engine failure and he made a forced landing near Petershagen to the west of Hanover but was killed. He was buried in Sulingen Cemetery but was re-interred in Hanover in May 1947.
Born 1924 in Teviothead, Roxburghshire. Son of James Wood Bruce and Mary Eleanor Essex (Bell) Bruce, of Riccalton, Oxnam, Jedburgh.
Died on Service on 28 May 1945 and buried in Hanover War Cemetery, Germany.
Also named on the Glenalmond College memorial.
C.Q.M.S. THOMAS HALL, K.O.S.B.
Thomas Hall age 36 Sergeant (3187109) 1st Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers.
Thomas had served in the Border Regiment for some years before the war. He joined the 1st KOSB when they embarked for France in 1939. He came home on leave to get married in March 1940. The Battalion crossed the Belgian frontier in May 1940 but were ordered to withdraw. Fighting their way to the coast they were evacuated from the beaches of Dunkirk on the night of 31st May/1st June. Thomas was Mentioned in Despatches for his actions. The 1st KOSB returned to France on D-Day, 6th June 1944, landing at Queen Beach. Thomas was killed at Gazelle near Caen but was re-interred at Douvres in May 1945.
Born 1908 in Yetholm, Roxburghshire. Son of William and Janet (Robertson) Hall of Millheugh, Oxnam. Husband of Vivian (McDermid) Hall of 63 Great Western Road, Kelvingrove, Glasgow who he married in March 1940 in Glasgow.
Their daughter, Vivian, was born in March 1944 in Redlands Hospital, Great Western Road, Glasgow.
Killed in Action on 28 June 1944 and buried in La Delivrande War Cemetery, Douvres, Calvados, France. _________________ Ken |
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