The Scottish War Graves Project

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

Name: James Samuel Laing Redpath
Age: 22
Date of Death: Friday 27 September 1940
Rank: Signalman
Regiment/Service: Royal Corps of Signals
Unit/Ship/Squadron: 51st Div Sigs
Honours/Awards: None Recorded
Service No. 2580531
Cemetery/Memorial: Malbork Commonwealth War Cemetery, Poland. Grave Reference: 6. B. 10.

Additional Info. Son of John Mirtle and Elizabeth Mary (Laing) Redpath.

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

Name: John Robb
Age: 25
Date of Death: Wednesday 28 October 1942
Rank: Lieutenant
Regiment/Service: Royal Marines
Unit/Ship/Squadron: Mobile Naval Base Defence Organisation
Honours/Awards: Bachelor of Science Degree (Honours)
Service No. Not Recorded
Cemetery/Memorial: Portsmouth Naval Memorial Grave Reference: Panel 70 Col. 2.

Additional Info. Son of John Mirtle and Elizabeth Mary (Laing) Redpath.
Captured during Operation Agreement (Raid on Tobruk), died as PoW.

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

Name: Peter Robb
Age: 29
Date of Death: Sunday 26 May 1918
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)
Unit/Ship/Squadron: 1st/7th Bn.
Honours/Awards: None Recorded
Service No. S/18767
Cemetery/Memorial: Roclincourt Valley Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France. Grave Reference: VI. D. 7.

Additional Info. Son of George D. and Janet Barclay Mitchell.

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

Name: William Alistair Sang
Age: 28
Date of Death: Saturday 25 March 1916
Rank: Sapper
Regiment/Service: Canadian Overseas Railway Construction Corps
Unit/Ship/Squadron: Not Recorded
Honours/Awards: None Recorded
Service No. 88
Cemetery/Memorial: Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, West Vlaanderen, Belgium. Grave Reference: V. D. 17.

Additional Info. Son of William Drysdale Sang and Margaret Taylor Sang, Born in Kirkcaldy. Headstone in Belgium reads 'Fidelis'.

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

Name: James Blair Saunders
Age: 22
Date of Death: Monday 13 November 1916
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)
Unit/Ship/Squadron: 6th Bn.
Honours/Awards: None Recorded
Service No. 5689
Cemetery/Memorial: Hunter's Cemetery, Beaumont-Hamel. France. Grave Reference: 4

Additional Info. Son Of James And Janet Saunders, Of 5, Marion St., Kirkcaldy.
His headstone in France reads 'To Memory Dear'

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

Name: John Saunders
Age: 26
Date of Death: Sunday 14 July 1918
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Machine Gun Corps
Unit/Ship/Squadron: 37th Bn.
Honours/Awards: None Recorded
Service No. 99126
Cemetery/Memorial: Bagneux British Cemetery, Gezaincourt, Somme, France Grave Reference: III. D. 4.

Additional Info. Son of William and Agnes Saunders of 16 Alexandra Street, Kirkcaldy, Fife.
Headstone in France reads 'He Lives Within Our Memories Still And Will Forever More'

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

Name: George Seath
Age: 35
Date of Death: Friday 22 October 1943
Rank: Leading Stoker
Regiment/Service: Royal Navy
Unit/Ship/Squadron: HMS Cowslip
Honours/Awards: None Recorded
Service No. C/KX98013
Cemetery/Memorial: Chatham Naval Memorial, Kent Grave Reference: Panel 71.3

Additional Info. Son of George and Mary B Seath of Kirkcaldy.

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

Name: John Simpson
Age: 20
Date of Death: Friday 12 October 1917
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: King's Own Scottish Borderers
Unit/Ship/Squadron: 6th Bn.
Honours/Awards: None Recorded
Service No. 27746
Cemetery/Memorial: Tyne Cot Memorial, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Grave Reference: Panel 66 to 68.

Additional Info. Son of Catherine Bethune (formerly Simpson), of 29, Mitchell St., Kirkcaldy, Fife.

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

Name: Alexander Stewart
Age: 27
Date of Death: Saturday 02 May 1942
Rank: Gunner
Regiment/Service: Royal Artillery
Unit/Ship/Squadron: 2/1 Maritime Regt.
Honours/Awards: None Recorded
Service No. 1551895
Cemetery/Memorial: Portsmouth Naval Memorial Grave Reference: Panel 72, Column 1.

Additional Info. Son of Alexander and Euphemia Cornfoot Stewart, of Kirkcaldy, Fife.
Killed in Action on board HMS Forrester.
In mid-April 1942, Forester was part of the close cover for Convoy PQ 14 to Murmansk.[25] On 28 April, Forester joined the escort of returning Convoy QP 11, and two days later, when the light cruiser Edinburgh was torpedoed, she and her sister Foresight were detached to escort the crippled cruiser back to Murmansk. On 1 May Edinburgh and her escorts were attacked by the German destroyers Z24, Z25 and Z7 Hermann Schoemann. Forester fired her torpedoes at Z25, but was almost simultaneously hit by three shells. They disabled 'B' and 'X' guns and the hit in No. 1 boiler room temporarily disabled her propulsion machinery. Twelve crewmen were killed, including her captain, and nine were wounded. Foresight was also temporarily disabled and the Germans put another torpedo into Edinburgh, crippling her, before breaking off the engagement to rescue the crew of the crippled Z7 Hermann Schoemann. The two British destroyers took off the survivors from the cruiser and Foresight scuttled the cruiser with a torpedo before heading back to Murmansk for temporary repairs.[26] She sailed on 13 May with Foresight and the destroyers Somali and Matchless as escorts for the light cruiser Trinidad that had been damaged while escorting Convoy PQ 13. The next day the ships came under heavy air attack, and Trinidad was further damaged and set on fire. Forester took off the wounded and other survivors, and Trinidad was sunk by Matchless. Forester arrived at Scapa Flow on 18 May and immediately took passage to a shipyard on the Tyne for repairs that lasted until October. That month, she rejoined the 8th DF and resumed escorting convoys to Russia until April 1943. The ship was then refitted at Leith until June

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

Name: William Taylor
Age: 39
Date of Death: Saturday 25 September 1915
Rank: Lance Corporal
Regiment/Service: Royal Scots
Unit/Ship/Squadron: 12th Bn.
Honours/Awards: None Recorded
Service No. 16573
Cemetery/Memorial: Loos Memorial, Pas de Calais, France. Grave Reference: Panel 10 to 13.

Additional Info. Born in Edinburgh, Son of David Taylor and Margaret M Cumming
Headstone quotes 3rd Battalion

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

Name: William Wallace
Age: 26
Date of Death: Wednesday 30 June 1920
Rank: Sergeant
Regiment/Service: Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
Unit/Ship/Squadron: 12th Bn.
Honours/Awards: None Recorded
Service No. 16694
Cemetery/Memorial: Haidar Pasha Cemetery, Turkey (Including Gallipoli) Grave Reference: I. C. 18.

Additional Info. Son of Andrew and Isabella (Scott) Wallace. Died in Constantinople.

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

Name: William Alexander Fernie Watson
Age: 23
Date of Death: Thursday 13 April 1944
Rank: Sergeant (Flight Engineer)
Regiment/Service: Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Unit/Ship/Squadron: 90 Sqdn
Honours/Awards: None Recorded
Service No. 1821732
Cemetery/Memorial: Roye New British Cemetery, Somme, France. Grave Reference: II. AC. 2-6

Additional Info. Son of William and Elizabeth Scott (Fernie) Watson of Kirkcaldy, Fife. Headstone in France reads 'Forever With the Lord'.

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

Name: Peter Yule
Age: 33
Date of Death: Thursday 21 June 1917
Rank: Gunner
Regiment/Service: Australian Field Artillery
Unit/Ship/Squadron: 3rd AFA Bde.
Honours/Awards: None Recorded
Service No. 5669
Cemetery/Memorial: Kandahar Farm Cemetery, West Vlaanderen, Belgium. Grave Reference: II. B. 38.

Additional Info. Son of Peter and Agnes (Brown) Yule of 225 Links Street, Kirkcaldy.

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

Name: Alexander Smart
Age: 64
Date of Death: Monday 29 April 1985
Rank: Group Captain
Regiment/Service: Royal Air Force
Unit/Ship/Squadron: Not Recorded
Honours/Awards: Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire and British Empire Medal
Service No. Not Recorded
Cemetery/Memorial: Abbotshall Parish Churchyard

Additional Info. Beloved Husband of Meg

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

Name: James Stewart
Age: 53
Date of Death: 1883
Regiment/Service: Royal Artillery

Cemetery/Memorial: Abbotshall Parish Churchyard