The Scottish War Graves Project

Scott · Joined: 29 May 2013 Posts: 1935 Location: Fife

Name: Alexander Samuel Middleton
Age: 25
Date of Death: Thursday 30 September 1915
Rank: Second Lieutenant
Regiment/Service: Cameron Highlanders
Unit/Ship/Squadron: 3rd Bn.
Honours/Awards: None Recorded
Cemetery/Memorial: St. Sever Cemetery, Rouen, Siene-Maritime, France.
Grave Reference: Officers, A. 2. 2.
Additional Info. Son of Nannie (Agnes) Hester Hazlewood Middleton of 38 Inverleith Place, Edinburgh and the late George Hodgson Middleton. Headstone in France reads: "Greater Love Hath No Man".
Commemorated on family headstone in Strathmiglo, Fife. Brothers George and James also fell.

Scott · Joined: 29 May 2013 Posts: 1935 Location: Fife

Name: George Hilton Middleton
Age: 25
Date of Death: Sunday 10 August 1919
Rank: Lieutenant
Regiment/Service: Royal Army Medical Corps
Honours/Awards: None Recorded
Cemetery/Memorial: Archangel Memorial, Russian Federation.
Grave Reference: Stone No. 10.
Additional Info: Son of Nannie (Agnes) Hester Hazlewood Middleton of 38 Inverleith Place, Edinburgh and the late George Hodgson Middleton.
Formerly 2nd Lowland Bde. Royal Field Artillery
Commemorated on family headstone in Strathmiglo, Fife.
Brothers Alexander and James also fell.

Scott · Joined: 29 May 2013 Posts: 1935 Location: Fife

Name: James Russell Middleton
Age: 29
Date of Death: Thursday 21 June 1917
Rank: Lieutenant
Regiment/Service: Royal Flying Corps
Unit/Ship/Squadron: 11th Sqdn.
Honours/Awards: None Recorded
Cemetery/Memorial: Cologne Southern Cemetery, Germany.
Grave Reference: XVI. A. 17.

Additional info: Engaged in engineering works in Canada.
Enlisted in Lord Strathcona's Horse at commencement of war.
Formerly 7th Bn. Cameron Highlanders
Headstone in Germany reads: "He That Loseth His Life For My Sake Shall Find It".
Son of Nannie (Agnes) Hester Hazlewood Middleton of 38 Inverleith Place, Edinburgh and the late George Hodgson Middleton. Commemorated on family headstone in Strathmiglo, Fife.
Brothers Alexander and George also fell.

Scott · Joined: 29 May 2013 Posts: 1935 Location: Fife

Name: William Page
Age: 32
Date of Death: Thursday 21 January 1915
Rank: Engine Room Artificer 2nd Class
Regiment/Service: Royal Navy
Unit/Ship/Squadron: H.M. S/M. E10
Honours/Awards: None Recorded
Service No. 271400
Cemetery/Memorial: Portsmouth Naval Memorial
Grave Reference: Panel 8.
Additional Info. Son of Francis and Ellen Bower Page of Fifeshire; husband of Margaret Page of Meadow Place, Crieff, Perthshire.

Scott · Joined: 29 May 2013 Posts: 1935 Location: Fife

Name: James Reid
Age: 26
Date of Death: Sunday 27 October 1918
Rank: Driver
Regiment/Service: Royal Engineers
Unit/Ship/Squadron: 78th Field Coy.
Honours/Awards: None Recorded
Service No. 61018
Cemetery/Memorial: Neuvilly Communal Cemetery Extension, Nord, France.
Grave Reference: C. 9.
Additional Info. Son Of Robert And Janet Scott (Brunton) Reid Of High St. Strathmiglo.
Headstone in France reads "Father in thy gracious keeping, leave we here our loved one sleeping"
Brother William David also fell.

Scott · Joined: 29 May 2013 Posts: 1935 Location: Fife

Name: David Reid
Age: 24
Date of Death: Saturday 25 August 1917
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)
Unit/Ship/Squadron: 9th Bn.
Honours/Awards: None Recorded
Service No. 291836
Cemetery/Memorial: Aeroplane Cemetery, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Grave Reference: I. V. 29.
Additional Info. Son of David and Isabella Drummond Reid of High Street, Strathmiglo, Fife.
Headstone in Belgium reads 'To memory ever dear'.

Scott · Joined: 29 May 2013 Posts: 1935 Location: Fife

Name: John Alan Seaton
Age: 29
Date of Death: Wednesday 13 October 1943
Rank: Guardsman
Regiment/Service: Scots Guards
Unit/Ship/Squadron: 2nd Bn.
Honours/Awards: None Recorded
Service No. 2698092
Cemetery/Memorial: Cassino War Cemetery, Italy.
Grave Reference: VII. G. 7.
Additional Info. Son of John and Marjory Seaton of Strathmiglo, Fife.
Headstone in Italy reads 'A cheerful smile, a heart of gold, one of the best, the world could hold'
Family headstone records his age as 28; CWGC as 29

Scott · Joined: 29 May 2013 Posts: 1935 Location: Fife

Name: Thomas Stewart Sproll
Age: 21
Date of Death: Saturday 15 July 1916
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)
Unit/Ship/Squadron: 8th Bn.
Honours/Awards: None Recorded
Service No. S/10196
Cemetery/Memorial: Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France.
Grave Reference: Pier and Face 10 A.
Formerly H/18214 Commands and Staff; Cavalry Excluding Greys and Scottish Yeomanry. Grandson of Thomas & Mrs Magdalene (Pryde) Henderson. Commemorated on Grandparents' headstone in Strathmiglo, Fife.

Scott · Joined: 29 May 2013 Posts: 1935 Location: Fife

Name: David Wilson
Age: 36
Date of Death: Monday 23 April 1917
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)
Unit/Ship/Squadron: 6th Bn.
Honours/Awards: None Recorded
Service No. 266974
Cemetery/Memorial: Arras Memorial, Pas de Calais, France.
Grave Reference: Bay 6.
Additional Info. Son of the late John Wilson & Janet (Allan) Wilson of Allan Cottage, Strathmiglo, Fife; husband of Isabella Wilson of 161 Dalry Road, Edinburgh.

Scott · Joined: 29 May 2013 Posts: 1935 Location: Fife

Name: James Duncan
Age: 48
Date of Death: Monday 19 November 1979
Formerly:
Chief Petty Officer Marine Engineering Mechanic (M)
Regiment/Service: Royal Navy
Unit/Ship/Squadron: HMS Camperdown
Honours/Awards: None Recorded
Service No. K869331X
Cemetery/Memorial: Strathmiglo Parish Churchyard
Additional Info. Husband of Winnie McNaughton

Scott · Joined: 29 May 2013 Posts: 1935 Location: Fife

Name: William S Bodys
Age: 40
Date of Death: Saturday 20 October 1962
Honours/Awards: B.E.M.
Cemetery/Memorial: Strathmiglo Parish Churchyard

Scott · Joined: 29 May 2013 Posts: 1935 Location: Fife

Name: Hugh Brown
Rank: Senior Chaplin to the 33rd Division During the Great War.
Minister of the Parish of Strathmiglo, 1911 - 1923.
Honours/Awards: Master of Arts Degree, Batchelor of Divinity and Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire
Cemetery/Memorial: Strathmiglo Parish Churchyard.

Scott · Joined: 29 May 2013 Posts: 1935 Location: Fife

Name: George Clerk Cheape
Age: 58
Date of Death: Friday 14 September 1900
Rank: Captain
Regiment/Service: 11th Hussars
Honours/Awards: None Recorded
Cemetery/Memorial: Strathmiglo Parish Churchyard

Scott · Joined: 29 May 2013 Posts: 1935 Location: Fife

Name: William Gordon
Age: 63
Date of Death: Tuesday 01 March 1927
Formerly: Leading Trimmer
Regiment/Service: Royal Navy
Unit/Ship/Squadron: HMS Melton
Honours/Awards: D.S.M.
Cemetery/Memorial: Strathmiglo Parish Churchyard
Additional Info. Husband of Margaret Gordon

Scott · Joined: 29 May 2013 Posts: 1935 Location: Fife

Name: James Hardy
Date of Death: Saturday 14 September 1963
Formerly: Chief Petty Officer
Regiment/Service: Royal Navy
Honours/Awards: M.S.M.
Service No. 172942 (Ch)
Cemetery/Memorial: Strathmiglo Parish Churchyard
Husband of Catherine M.H. Blyth