The Scottish War Graves Project

DelBoy · Joined: 02 Feb 2008 Posts: 1188 Location: Arbroath

Name: MILNE
Initials: J
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)
Unit Text: 5th Bn.
Age: 19
Date of Death: 12/10/1916
Service No: 3298
Additional information: Son of Robert and Jane Milne, of Unthank, Brechin, Forfarshire.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: J. 11.
Cemetery: AUTHUILE MILITARY CEMETERY

DelBoy · Joined: 02 Feb 2008 Posts: 1188 Location: Arbroath

Name: MILNE, WILLIAM
Initials: W
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Lance Corporal
Regiment/Service: Gordon Highlanders
Unit Text: 5th Bn.
Age: 22
Date of Death: 28/07/1918
Service No: 240964
Awards: M M (Military Medal)
Additional information: Son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Milne, of Hillhead, Sandford, Boddam, Aberdeenshire.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: I. E. 2.
Cemetery: BOUILLY CROSS ROADS MILITARY CEMETERY

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Her Brother William Milne
Who Served In The Great War
And Died As A Result Of
Wounds 28th July 1918 Aged 22

DelBoy · Joined: 02 Feb 2008 Posts: 1188 Location: Arbroath

Name: MILNE, WILLIAM INGLIS
Initials: W I
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Guardsman
Regiment/Service: Scots Guards
Age: 32
Date of Death: 28/05/1944
Service No: 2701845
Additional information: Son of Robert Ramsay Milne and Mary Milne; husband of Betty Anne Milne, of Brechin, Angus.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: I. J. 7.
Cemetery: CASSINO WAR CEMETERY

Oddly his family headstone has the middle initial "J"

DelBoy · Joined: 02 Feb 2008 Posts: 1188 Location: Arbroath

Name: MITCHELL, THOMAS
Initials: T
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Gordon Highlanders
Unit Text: 1st/5th Bn.
Age: 18
Date of Death: 28/07/1918
Service No: S/22746
Additional information: Son of Mr. and Mrs. William Mitchell, of 4, Park Road, Brechin, Forfarshire.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: I. C. 27.
Cemetery: BUZANCY MILITARY CEMETERY

DelBoy · Joined: 02 Feb 2008 Posts: 1188 Location: Arbroath

Name: MORRISON, JOHN
Initials: J
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)
Unit Text: D Coy. 4th Bn.
Age: 34
Date of Death: 29/05/1915
Service No: 1556
Additional information: Only son of John and Jane Hunter Webster Morrison, of Brechin, Forfarshire.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Plot 2. Row F. Grave 5.
Cemetery: LE TREPORT MILITARY CEMETERY

Name: MORRISON
Initials: F
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Royal Scots
Unit Text: 1st/7th Bn.
Secondary Regiment: Machine Gun Corps
Secondary Unit Text: attd. 156th Bde.
Date of Death: 20/05/1916
Service No: 2959
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: F. 399.
Cemetery: KANTARA WAR MEMORIAL CEMETERY

DelBoy · Joined: 02 Feb 2008 Posts: 1188 Location: Arbroath

Name: MOYES, ANDREW G.
Initials: A G
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)
Unit Text: 5th Bn.
Age: 23
Date of Death: 20/03/1943
Service No: 2759226
Additional information: Son of William and Annie S. Moyes, of Brechin, Angus.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: III. F. 7.
Cemetery: SFAX WAR CEMETERY

DelBoy · Joined: 02 Feb 2008 Posts: 1188 Location: Arbroath

Name: MURRAY, ALFRED
Initials: A
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Royal Scots Fusiliers
Unit Text: 2nd Bn.
Date of Death: 30/07/1916
Service No: 16881
Additional information: Son of James Murray, of Glebe House, Brechin, Forfarshire.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Pier and Face 3 C.
Memorial: THIEPVAL MEMORIAL

DelBoy · Joined: 02 Feb 2008 Posts: 1188 Location: Arbroath

CWGC
Name: MURRAY, JAMES
Initials: J
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Gunner
Regiment/Service: Royal Field Artillery
Unit Text: "C" Bty. 106th Bde.
Age: 22
Date of Death: 22/09/1915
Service No: 360
Additional information: Husband of Agnes Silver Clark Murray, of Dykehead, Burnside, Forfar.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: I. D. 112.
Cemetery: CHOCQUES MILITARY CEMETERY

SNWM
Surname: MURRAY
Firstname: James
Service Number: 360
Date Death: 22/09/1915
Place of birth: Farnell, Forfar
SNWM roll: ROYAL HORSE AND ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY
Rank: Gnr
Theatre of death: F.& F.

Identity confirmed by birth in Farnell on birth certificate

DelBoy · Joined: 02 Feb 2008 Posts: 1188 Location: Arbroath

Name: MURRAY, ROBERT
Initials: R
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Manchester Regiment
Unit Text: 9th Bn.
Age: 34
Date of Death: 08/10/1944
Service No: 118412
Additional information: Son of John and Jessie Fell Murray; husband of Sarah Jane Murray, of Montrose, Angus.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: XV, E, 8.
Cemetery: CORIANO RIDGE WAR CEMETERY

DelBoy · Joined: 02 Feb 2008 Posts: 1188 Location: Arbroath

Name: MYLES, WILLIAM WHITSON
Initials: W W
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Second Lieutenant
Regiment/Service: Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)
Unit Text: 10th Bn.
Secondary Unit Text: attd. T.M. Bty.
Age: 20
Date of Death: 20/09/1916
Additional information: Son of the late Dr. T. P. Myles, of Castle Street, Brechin, Forfarshire.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: II. A. 13.
Cemetery: DERNANCOURT COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION

DelBoy · Joined: 02 Feb 2008 Posts: 1188 Location: Arbroath

Name: NORMAN, ROBERT
Initials: R
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Sapper
Regiment/Service: Royal Engineers
Unit Text: 9 (Airborne) Field Coy.
Age: 22
Date of Death: between 19/11/1942 and 20/11/1942
Service No: 2110268
Additional information: Son of Robert and Annie A. Norman, of Brechin, Angus.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Z. 25.
Cemetery: STAVANGER (EIGANES) CHURCHYARD

DelBoy · Joined: 02 Feb 2008 Posts: 1188 Location: Arbroath

Name: PETER, ALEXANDER
Initials: A
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Corporal
Regiment/Service: Fife and Forfar Yeomanry
Unit Text: H.Q. 1st/1st
Age: 28
Date of Death: 05/12/1915
Service No: 1581
Additional information: Son of Alexander and Alexina Clark Peter, of Oak Bank, Brechin, Forfarshire.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: A. 41.
Cemetery: ALEXANDRIA (CHATBY) MILITARY AND WAR MEMORIAL CEMETERY

DelBoy · Joined: 02 Feb 2008 Posts: 1188 Location: Arbroath

Name: PORTER, JOHN SMITH
Initials: J S
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Sergeant (Nav.)
Regiment/Service: Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Unit Text: 90 Sqdn.
Age: 22
Date of Death: 23/06/1943
Service No: 1349394
Additional information: Son of Charles and Annie Martin Porter, of Leven, Fife.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Coll. grave 9. B. 12-14.
Cemetery: RHEINBERG WAR CEMETERY

DelBoy · Joined: 02 Feb 2008 Posts: 1188 Location: Arbroath

Name: POTTER, DAVID SCOTT
Initials: D S
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Gunner
Regiment/Service: Royal Artillery
Unit Text: 43 Bty., 61 Lt. A.A. Regt.
Age: 29
Date of Death: 10/05/1942
Service No: 1568592
Additional information: Son of Alexander and Mary Ann Potter, of Brechin, Angus.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Column 37.
Memorial: ALAMEIN MEMORIAL

DelBoy · Joined: 02 Feb 2008 Posts: 1188 Location: Arbroath

Name: REID, ALEXANDER
Initials: A
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)
Unit Text: 4th Bn.
Age: 21
Date of Death: 08/02/1942
Service No: 2758111
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Plot 2. Row B. Joint grave 7.
Cemetery: GIBRALTAR (NORTH FRONT) CEMETERY