The Scottish War Graves Project

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

Name: Thomas Milner Peet
Age: 61
Date of Death: Thursday 12 February 1942
Rank: Commander
Regiment/Service: Royal Naval Reserve
Honours/Awards: R.D. (Reserve Decoration)

Additional Info. Husband of Minnie Thomson

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

Name: James B. Pow
Age: 79
Date of Death: Wednesday 14 February 2001
Rank: Flight Lieutenant
Regiment/Service: R.A.F.
Unit/Ship/Squadron: Coastal Command

Additional Info. Son of James and Mary Renton Pow; brother of William R. Pow lost 29/11/44, Germany. Justice of the Peace; twice and last Provost of Tayport. Obituary can be found here: http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/12233005.Flt_Lieut_Jim_Pow/

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

Name: Robert Ramsay
Age: 88
Date of Death: Monday 21 December 1981
Honours/Awards: Military Medal

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

Name: John Roy
Age: 78
Date of Death: Thursday 16 October 1952
Rank: Sergeant
Regiment/Service: Royal Engineers
Unit/Ship/Squadron: 250th Tunnelling Coy.
Honours/Awards: Distinguised Conduct Medal and Military Medal
Service No. 121813
Cemetery/Memorial: Tayport Cemetery

Additional Info. Born Crieff, Perthshire 3rd March 1874 to William Roy and Mary Clark; husband of Margaret Reekie Stephenson.
D.S.M. Citation reads 'For the last three years he has shown consistant gallantry and devotion to duty during a long period of active mine warfare, when employed on the erection of concrete pillboxes and in the search for enemy land-contact mines.
On the 25th June, 1918 he with six sappers, loaded and transported over 30 tons of concrete to a required site and unloaded.
During this operation the party was subject to particularly severe machine gun fire. It was entirely due to his personal example of determination that the emplacement was erected in time.'
London Gazette Supplement 31534 Page 11151 dated 2nd September 1919.

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

Name: Donald Sutherland
Age: 77
Date of Death: Friday 09 April 1948
Rank: Colour Serjeant (Acting Serjeant-Major)
Regiment/Service: Seaforth Highlanders
Unit/Ship/Squadron: 1st/5th Bn.
Honours/Awards: Distinguised Conduct Medal and Croix de Guerre (Cross of War)
Service No. 2814
Cemetery/Memorial: Tayport Cemetery

Additional Info. Husband of Elizabeth Bailey.
DSM Citation Reads 'For conspicuous gallantry in carrying wounded men from the front of the fire trenches and rendering first aid under heavy fire, most of the wounded lying midway between our and the enemy trenches.
Acting regimental Serjeant-major Sutherland Volunteered to work with the stretcherbearers till every man alive was brought in, being the whole time under heavy machine gun and shell fire.'
London Gazette Supplement 29503, Page 2724 dated 10th March 1916.

Additional Info. Husband of Elizabeth Bailey.

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

Name: Joseph Edward Smith
Age: Not Recorded
Date of Death: Sunday 08 June 1902
Rank: Lieutenant

Additional Info. Son of Joseph E. and Jemima Roy Smith. Died Bensonvale, Eastern Cape, South Africa.

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

Name: Peter Brown
Age: 93
Date of Death: Sunday 02 August 1998
Rank: Captain
Regiment/Service: Royal Artillery

Additional Info. Husband of Jean Lamont Stirrat