The Scottish War Graves Project Part of the Scottish Military Research Group (Registered Scottish Charity No. SC043826). Please visit our homepage at www.scottishmilitaryresearch.co.uk    FAQ   Search   Memberlist   Usergroups   Register   Profile   Log in to check your private messages   Log in  Dud Corner Cemetery Goto page 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6  Next          The Scottish War Graves Project Forum Index -> Overseas burials View previous topic :: View next topic   Author Message jrah60 Joined: 05 Feb 2010 Posts: 2413 Location: East Kibride Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2012 4:55 pm    Post subject: Dud Corner Cemetery DUD CORNER CEMETERY, LOOS, PAS DE CALAIS, FRANCE. Identified Casualties: 684 Loos-en-Gohelle is a village 5 kilometres north-west of Lens. Dud Corner Cemetery is located about 1 kilometre west of the village, to the north-east of the N943 the main Lens to Bethune road. The Loos Memorial forms the side and back of Dud Corner Cemetery and commemorates over 20,000 officers and men who have no known grave, who fell in the area from the River Lys to the old southern boundary of the First Army, east and west of Grenay. The name "Dud Corner" is believed to be due to the large number of unexploded enemy shells found in the neighbourhood after the Armistice. The only burials here during hostilities were those of four Officers of the 9th Black Watch and one Private of the 8th Royal Dublin Fusiliers, close to Plot III, Row B; the remainder of the graves were brought in later from isolated positions near Loos and to the North, and from certain small cemeteries, including:- TOSH CEMETERY, LOOS, was on the North side of the village, close to the communication trench called Tosh Alley. It contained the graves of 171 soldiers from the United Kingdom (118 of whom were Irish) and five from Canada. It was used from October 1915 to September 1917. CRUCIFIX CEMETERY, LOOS, was a little West of Tosh Cemetery. It was used from September 1915 to May 1916, and it contained the graves of 53 soldiers from the United Kingdom. LE RUTOIRE BRITISH CEMETERY, VERMELLES, was close to Le Rutoire Farm, which is on Loos Plain, near the village of Vermelles. It was used in 1915, and contained the graves of 82 soldiers from the United Kingdom and six French soldiers. There are now nearly 2,000, 1914-18 war casualties commemorated in this site. Of these, over half are unidentified and special headstones have been erected to 15 soldiers from the United Kingdom who are believed to be buried among them. The great majority of the dead buried here fell in the Battle of Loos 1915; but some were killed in succeeding years. Originally, the regimental memorials for the following units were brought into the cemetery:- 10th Scottish Rifles and the 17th London Regiment, dating from the Battle of Loos, and those of the Royal Montreal Regiment and the Royal Highlanders of Canada, dating from the Battle of Hill 70 in August 1917. These memorials were later removed. Special memorials are erected in this Cemetery to twelve soldiers of the 2nd Welch Regiment, killed in action on the 12th October 1915, and buried in Crucifix Cemetery, Loos, whose graves could not be found on concentration. The cemetery now covers an area of 5,550 square metres, and is bounded by a low rubble wall except on the road side, where the War Stone is raised on a grass terrace and flanked by buildings. Back to top jrah60 Joined: 05 Feb 2010 Posts: 2413 Location: East Kibride Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2012 4:57 pm    Post subject: ANDERSON, DAVID Rank: Private Service No: S/3268 Date of Death: 25/09/1915 Age: 29 Regiment/Service: Seaforth Highlanders, 8th Bn. Grave Reference: V. K. 6. Cemetery: DUD CORNER CEMETERY, LOOS Additional Information: Son of Mrs. and Mrs. T. Anderson, of 26, Winton St., Ardrossan, Ayrshire. Back to top jrah60 Joined: 05 Feb 2010 Posts: 2413 Location: East Kibride Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2012 4:59 pm    Post subject: BEVERIDGE, ALEXANDER Rank: Private Service No: S/5760 Date of Death: 25/09/1915 Regiment/Service: Seaforth Highlanders, 8th Bn. Grave Reference: V. H. 6. Cemetery: DUD CORNER CEMETERY, LOOS Additional Information: Place of birth Dunfermline (SNWM). Back to top jrah60 Joined: 05 Feb 2010 Posts: 2413 Location: East Kibride Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2012 5:00 pm    Post subject: BLACKLEY, ROBERT Rank: Lance Corporal Service No: 3/1122 Date of Death: 25/09/1915 Regiment/Service: Black Watch (Royal Highlanders), 1st Bn. Grave Reference: VI. C. 8. Cemetery: DUD CORNER CEMETERY, LOOS Additional Information: Place of birth Burntisland (SNWM). Back to top jrah60 Joined: 05 Feb 2010 Posts: 2413 Location: East Kibride Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2012 5:02 pm    Post subject: Name: BRAND, JOHN Rank: Private Service No: S/5761 Date of Death: 25/09/1915 Regiment/Service: Seaforth Highlanders, 8th Bn. Grave Reference: V. H. 8. Cemetery: DUD CORNER CEMETERY, LOOS Additional Information: Place of birth Fowlis Wester Crieff (SNWM). Back to top jrah60 Joined: 05 Feb 2010 Posts: 2413 Location: East Kibride Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2012 5:04 pm    Post subject: Name: BROWN, WILLIAM Rank: Company Serjeant Major Service No: 532 Date of Death: 25/09/1915 Age: 27 Regiment/Service: Black Watch (Royal Highlanders), 1st Bn. Grave Reference: V. B. 1. Cemetery: DUD CORNER CEMETERY, LOOS Additional Information: Son of Mrs. Jane Brown, of 2, Carnegie Terrace, Carnoustie, Forfarshire. Back to top jrah60 Joined: 05 Feb 2010 Posts: 2413 Location: East Kibride Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2012 5:05 pm    Post subject: BUCHANAN, WILLIAM Rank: Corporal Service No: S/2697 Date of Death: 25/09/1915 Age: 21 Regiment/Service: Seaforth Highlanders, 8th Bn. Grave Reference: V. H. 4. Cemetery: DUD CORNER CEMETERY, LOOS Additional Information: Son of William Buchanan, of 89, Raeberry St., Glasgow. Back to top jrah60 Joined: 05 Feb 2010 Posts: 2413 Location: East Kibride Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2012 5:07 pm    Post subject: BURKE, JAMES Rank: Private Service No: S/3345 Date of Death: 25/09/1915 Regiment/Service: Black Watch (Royal Highlanders), 1st Bn. Grave Reference: VI. B. 8. Cemetery: DUD CORNER CEMETERY, LOOS Additional Information: Place of birth Lochee, Forfarshire (SNWM). Back to top jrah60 Joined: 05 Feb 2010 Posts: 2413 Location: East Kibride Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2012 5:09 pm    Post subject: CALDER, GEORGE MACBETH Rank: Second Lieutenant Date of Death: 25/09/1915 Age: 24 Regiment/Service: Seaforth Highlanders, 8th Bn. Grave Reference: V. H. 1. Cemetery: DUD CORNER CEMETERY, LOOS Additional Information: Son of George Macbeth Calder and Isabella Calder, of Presley Cottage, Dunphail, Morayshire. M.A. (Aberdeen), Medical Student. Back to top jrah60 Joined: 05 Feb 2010 Posts: 2413 Location: East Kibride Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2012 5:11 pm    Post subject: CHAPMAN, HENRY Rank: Private Service No: S/3850 Date of Death: 25/09/1915 Regiment/Service: Seaforth Highlanders, 8th Bn. Grave Reference: VI. G. 4. Cemetery: DUD CORNER CEMETERY, LOOS Additional Information: Place of birth Bothwell, Lanarkshire (SNWM). Back to top jrah60 Joined: 05 Feb 2010 Posts: 2413 Location: East Kibride Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2012 5:13 pm    Post subject: CHISHOLM, WALTER Rank: Lance Corporal Service No: 14567 Date of Death: 25/09/1915 Age: 22 Regiment/Service: King’s Own Scottish Borderers, 7th Bn. Grave Reference: VI. F. 20. Cemetery: DUD CORNER CEMETERY, LOOS Additional Information: Son of William Chisholm, of Bridgend, Crawick, Sanquhar. Back to top jrah60 Joined: 05 Feb 2010 Posts: 2413 Location: East Kibride Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2012 5:14 pm    Post subject: CHRISTIE, ANDREW Rank: Company Quartermaster Serjeant Service No: S/8059 Date of Death: 25/09/1915 Age: 45 Regiment/Service: Seaforth Highlanders, 8th Bn. Grave Reference: V. G. 3. Cemetery: DUD CORNER CEMETERY, LOOS Additional Information: Husband of Annie L. Christie, of 12, Meadowbank Crescent, Edinburgh. Back to top jrah60 Joined: 05 Feb 2010 Posts: 2413 Location: East Kibride Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2012 5:16 pm    Post subject: CLARK, GEORGE Rank: Private Service No: S/4430 Date of Death: 25/09/1915 Regiment/Service: Seaforth Highlanders, 8th Bn. Grave Reference: VI. G. 12. Cemetery: DUD CORNER CEMETERY, LOOS Additional Information: Place of birth Barony, Glasgow (SNWM). Back to top jrah60 Joined: 05 Feb 2010 Posts: 2413 Location: East Kibride Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2012 5:18 pm    Post subject: COLLINS, JAMES Rank: Serjeant Service No: S/2902 Date of Death: 25/09/1915 Regiment/Service: Seaforth Highlanders, 8th Bn. Grave Reference: VI. G. 2. Cemetery: DUD CORNER CEMETERY, LOOS Additional Information: Place of birth Govan, Lanarkshire (SNWM). Back to top jrah60 Joined: 05 Feb 2010 Posts: 2413 Location: East Kibride Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2012 5:20 pm    Post subject: CONDON, THOMAS Rank: Private Service No: S/2359 Date of Death: 25/09/1915 Regiment/Service: Seaforth Highlanders, 8th Bn. Grave Reference: VI. G. 6. Cemetery: DUD CORNER CEMETERY, LOOS Additional Information: Place of birth Glasgow (SNWM). 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