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Adam Brown
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 18, 2011 2:49 pm    Post subject: Lasswade High School Reply with quote

Dr Ken Bogle and the Midlothian Council's Library Service have identified this war memorial. We don’t have a photograph or location but it does still exist. I have added it to our database and I hope extra information can be added here at a later date.

Adam

*Title amended as a photo has now been posted.

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PostPosted: Fri Nov 18, 2011 10:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Pictures of the 2011 Remembrance Service at Lasswade High School can be seen on their website.

http://lasswadehsc.mgfl.net/?p=2107

A replacement Lasswade High School is now under construction. Here's hoping the memorial is given the same prominence in the new building.

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PostPosted: Fri Nov 18, 2011 10:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

From The Scotsman 03 October 1921

    WAR MEMORIALS

    LASSWADE:— A three-panel oak memorial was unveiled in the Art Room of Lasswade Higher Grade School on Saturday to the memory of the forty-two men, formerly pupils of the school, who fell in the Great War.


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PostPosted: Wed May 28, 2014 3:05 pm    Post subject: Lasswade High Memorial Reply with quote

Located in the main hall of the new high school.

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PostPosted: Wed May 28, 2014 9:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

A well looked after memorial by the looks of it. Thanks for posting it.

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PostPosted: Thu May 29, 2014 10:28 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Could this be a father and son?

PROUDFOOT, G.
Rank:Private
Service No:4651
Date of Death:30/11/1914
Regiment/Service:Royal Scots
8th Bn.
Grave ReferenceIII. B. 50.
CemeteryBOULOGNE EASTERN CEMETERY
Additional Information:
Son of William and Agnes Proudfoot. Native of: Lasswade, Midlothian.

PROUDFOOT, GEORGE.
Rank:Serjeant
Service No:67539
Date of Death:18/10/1918
Age:26
Regiment/Service:Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)
36th Bn.
Grave ReferenceIII. B. 2.
CemeteryDADIZEELE NEW BRITISH CEMETERY
Additional Information:
Son of George and Agnes Proudfoot, of 108, High St., Bonnyrigg, Midlothian.

SNWM
Surname PROUDFOOT
Forename George
Rank Sgt
Service number 2682
Decoration
Place of birth Lasswade.
Date of death 18 October 1918
Theatre of death F&F
Cause of death Killed in action
SNWM roll THE ROYAL SCOTS (LOTHIAN REGIMENT)
Unit name Unknown Unit attached to THE ROYAL SCOTS LOTHIAN REGIMENT
Other detail latterly 67539 Machine Gun Corps (Infantry).
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 26, 2022 5:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

ROBERT J. DEWAR

Named on the Aberlady War Memorial in East Lothian as:

SECOND LIEUT. R.J. DEWAR, D.C.M., ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY
Robert Johnman Dewar, Distinguished Conduct Medal – age 23 – Second Lieutenant, 153rd Brigade, Royal Field Artillery.
Robert was educated at Lasswade School in Midlothian and was an apprentice architects when he enlisted as Private (8760) in the 2nd Dragoons (Royal Scots Greys) in September 1914. He joined them in France in October 1915 and was awarded a DCM in early 1916 “For conspicuous devotion to duty. He was buried by the explosion of a mine, but dug himself out in twelve hours and got back to our lines. He then went out again with a N.C.O. to the crater, and rescued three other buried men within 30 yards of the enemy.” Robert was commissioned in the RFA in October 1917.
Born 1895 in Edinburgh. Son of Peter McCall Dewar and Catherine Crawford (Johnman) Dewar of the Original Hotel, Roslin, Midlothian and of Elcho House, Aberlady.
Died of Wounds on 5 October 1918 and buried in Potijze Burial Ground Cemetery, Belgium.
Also named on the Roslin War Memorial and on the Roslin United Free Church memorial.
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