The Scottish Military Research Group - Commemorations Project

Kenneth Morrison · Posted: Sun Aug 05, 2018 4:36 pm Post subject:

Pat - Originally named "The Edinburgh Institution for Languages and Mathematics", its name changed to Melville College in 1936.
Stewart's Melville College originated from the merger of two schools — Daniel Stewart's College and Melville College — in 1972.

As Kevin explains above "In 2002, extensive repair and restoration work was
carried out on the memorial. This included the addition
of two bronze plaques commemorating the First World War dead
of the Edinburgh Institution and the
Second World War dead of Melville College.
The names of the EI/MC fallen are recorded on a
bronze plaque on permanent display in the schools library."

I don't see this latter plaque on the Project?
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Ken

Mike Morley · Posted: Wed Oct 16, 2019 8:23 pm Post subject:

Name: DUGGAN, CHARLES WILLIAM
Initials: CW
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Major
Regiment/Service: Royal Army Medical Corps
Date of Death: 10/10/1918
Additional Information: Son of Maj. William Nelson Duggan, M.D. (Army Medical Service); husband of Crystal Duggan, of Rosemount, Dunmow Hill, Fleet, Hants. Served inthe Sofa Expedition, 1893-4. Mentioned in Despatches.
Memorial: Hollybrook Memorial, Southampton

Also named on Crawford War Memorial and George Watson's College War Memorial.

Further background about Maj Duggan can be found on the RAMC in the Great War website: http://www.ramc-ww1.com/profile.php?profile_id=11669

Kenneth Morrison · Posted: Sun Mar 21, 2021 11:55 am Post subject:

Named on the Stow Parish War Memorial in Midlothian as:

CAPT. J.T.C. IRELAND, CHAPLAIN
The Rev. John Thomas Craig Ireland – age 45 – Chaplain 4th Class, Army Chaplains' Department.
John was educated at Daniel Stewart's College in Edinburgh and at Edinburgh University where he was a student of the Arts and Divinity and from where he graduated M.A. in 1896. He became a minister in the United Free Church of Scotland and served as a Chaplain in the South African Wars.
John was the minister of the Stow United Free Church when he was appointed a Chaplain to the Forces in September 1915 and he landed with the 10th Black Watch at Boulogne that same month before moving with them to Salonica in northern Greece in November. He was returning to duty after some leave when the Troopship “Transylvania” sailing from Marseilles was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-63 in the Gulf of Genoa off Cape Vado, Italy.
Born 1872 in Wemyss, Fife. Son of the late William Ireland (died 1914) and of Jessie Craig (Ireland) Ireland of Norfield, Buckhaven, Fife. Husband of Agnes (Walker) Ireland of Ness Bank, Inverness, of Stow and of 18 Braid Crescent, Edinburgh who he married in 1899 in Edinburgh.
Killed by enemy action/Lost at Sea on 4 May 1917 and named on the Savona Memorial, Italy.
Also named on the Daniel Stewart's College memorial, on the United Free Church memorial in St Giles Cathedral in Edinburgh, on the Edinburgh University Old College memorial and on the University's Roll of the Fallen.
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Ken