The Scottish War Graves Project

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

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Name: Alexander Duncan
Age: 19
Date of Death: Tuesday 18 September 1917
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Gordon Highlanders
Unit/Ship/Squadron: A' Coy. 7th Bn.
Honours/Awards: None Recorded
Service No. S/41427
Cemetery/Memorial: Tyne Cot Memorial, West Vlaanderen, Belgium.
Grave Reference: Panel 135 to 136
Additional Info. Son of James and Mrs Janet Duncan of Pansy Cottage, 15 Gardiner Lane, Lochgelly, Fife.

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

Name: Keith MacFarlane Emslie
Age: 39
Date of Death: Monday 12 April 1943
Rank: Corporal
Regiment/Service: Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)
Unit/Ship/Squadron: 6th Bn.
Honours/Awards: None Recorded
Service No. 2750479
Cemetery/Memorial: Medjez-El-Bab War Cemetery, Tunisia.
Grave Reference: 8. H. 20.
Additional Info. Son of George and Mrs Annie MacFarlane Emslie; husband of Jean Emslie of Lochgelly, Fife.
Headstone in Tunisia reads: He Liveth Still Within Our Hearts Beloved and Unforgotten.

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

Name: John Bird Garmory
Age: 22
Date of Death: Saturday 21 October 1944
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment)
Unit/Ship/Squadron: 7th Bn.
Honours/Awards: None Recorded
Service No. 1836920
Cemetery/Memorial: Wuustwezel Churchyard, Antwerp, Belgium.
Grave Reference: Grave 6.
Additional Info. Son of Robert and Elizabeth Bird Garnory.
Headstone in Belgium reads 'Our Love Goes With You, Born at Lochgelly Scotland'.

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

Name: David Gibson
Age: 28
Date of Death: Saturday 06 December 1941
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders
Unit/Ship/Squadron: 2nd Bn.
Honours/Awards: None Recorded
Service No. 2935603
Cemetery/Memorial: Halfaya Sollum War Cemetery, Egypt
Grave Reference: 3. D. 10.
Additional Info. Son of David and Isabella D. Neilson Gibson of Lochgelly

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

Name: Robert James Gilmore
Age: 19
Date of Death: Friday 14 July 1916
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Royal Scots
Unit/Ship/Squadron: B. Coy. 11th Bn.
Honours/Awards: None Recorded
Service No. 15217
Cemetery/Memorial: Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France.
Grave Reference: Pier and Face 6D and 7D
Additional Info. Son of Thomas and Margaret O'Hara Gilmore of 6 Bain Street, Lochgelly, Fife.

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

Name: John Gordon
Age: 37
Date of Death: Tuesday 14 November 1916
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)
Unit/Ship/Squadron: 4th Bn.
Honours/Awards: None Recorded
Service No. 202079
Cemetery/Memorial: Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France.
Grave Reference: Pier and Face 10 A.
Additional Info. Husband of Margaret Gordon.
Family Headstone states Posted Missing on 13th November 1916 CWGC has Date of Death 14th November 1916.

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

Name: James Murray Gourdie
Age: 23
Date of Death: Wednesday 10 March 1943
Rank: Sapper
Regiment/Service: Royal Engineers
Unit/Ship/Squadron: 3 Field Sqdn.
Honours/Awards: None Recorded
Service No. 1912587
Cemetery/Memorial: Tripoli War Cemetery, Libya.
Grave Reference: 6. C. 18
Additional Info. Son of James and Mrs Cecilia E.S. Gourdie of Milton, Fife. Headstone in Libya reads: Doomed To Know Not Winter, Only Spring, R.L.S.

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

Name: William (Willie) Gray
Age: 18
Date of Death: Monday 09 April 1917
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Canadian Infantry
Unit/Ship/Squadron: 14th Bn.
Honours/Awards: None Recorded
Service No. 841531
Cemetery/Memorial: Nine Elms Military Cemetery, Thelus. France.
Grave Reference: I. A. 15.
Additional Info. Son of Margaret Mollison Palmer (formerly Gray) of 41 Caledonia Rd, Toronto, Canada and the late William Gray.
Born Lochgelly, Scotland.
Headstone in France reads: Until The Day Breaks And The Shadows Flee. Mother.

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

Name: Alex Haldane
Age: 22
Date of Death: Saturday 01 December 1917
Rank: Leading Seaman
Regiment/Service: Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve
Unit/Ship/Squadron: Howe Battalion Royal Naval Division
Honours/Awards: None Recorded
Service No. Clyde Z/2643
Cemetery/Memorial: Mendinghem Military Cemetery, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.
Grave Reference: VI. AA. 26.
Additional Info. Son of David and Mrs Isabella Thomson Haldane of Currie's Buildings, South Glencraig, by Lochgelly, Fife.
Headstone in Belgium reads: Though Death Divides Fond Memory Clings.
Brother James also fell.

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

Name: James Haldane
Age: 23
Date of Death: Friday 27 August 1915
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Royal Scots
Unit/Ship/Squadron: 11th Bn.
Honours/Awards: None Recorded
Service No. 11766
Cemetery/Memorial: Cambrin Churchyard Extension, Pas de Calais, France.
Grave Reference: H. 11.
Additional Info. Son of David and Mrs Isabella Thomson Haldane of Currie's Buildings, South Glencraig, by Lochgelly, Fife.
Headstone in France reads: Greater Love Hath No Man Than To Lay Down His Life For His Comrade.
Brother Alex also fell.

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

Name: Alexander F. Hunter
Age: 21
Date of Death: Monday 23 April 1917
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)
Unit/Ship/Squadron: 1st/6th Bn.
Honours/Awards: None Recorded
Service No. 266602
Cemetery/Memorial: Brown's Copse Cemetery, Roeux, Pas de Calais, France.
Grave Reference: I. E. 34.
Additional Info. Son of William and Mrs Isabella McKinlay Hunter of Lochgelly, Fife.

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

Name: Robert (Bobby) Hunter
Age: 22
Date of Death: Monday 02 November 1942
Rank: Able Seaman
Regiment/Service: Royal Navy
Unit/Ship/Squadron: HMS President III
Honours/Awards: None Recorded
Service No. P/JX 268244
Cemetery/Memorial: Portsmouth Naval Memorial.
Reference: Panel 64 Column 1.
Additional Info. Son of Andrew and Alexina Hunter of Lochgelly. Missing presumed killed whilst serving on Steamship Empire Gilbert.

"At 01.18 hours on 2 Nov 1942 the unescorted Empire Gilbert (Master William Williams) was hit on the port side by two torpedoes from U-586 and sank within 2 minutes southwest of Jan Mayen. The U-boat had chased the ship for about two hours and missed with a first spread of two torpedoes at 00.17 hours. The Germans arrived at the sinking position after 30 minutes and rescued two men (deck boy Ralph Urwin and gunner Arthur Hopkins) sitting on a beam in the ice cold water, who were already unable to move and had to be lifted aboard. Von der Esch then tried to question six survivors on a raft but received no answer, so he took another man as prisoner aboard, the gunner Douglas Meadows. They took care of the survivors and landed them at Skjomenfjord, Norway on 5 November. The master, 46 crew members and 17 gunners (the ship was armed with one 4.7in, one 40mm, four 20mm and eight Twin Marlin machine guns) were lost."

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

Name: John Lydon
Age: 21
Date of Death: Tuesday 27 August 1918
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Irish Guards
Unit/Ship/Squadron: 1st Bn.
Honours/Awards: None Recorded
Service No. 12331
Cemetery/Memorial: Mory Abbey Military Cemetery, Mory, Pas de Calais, France.
Grave Reference: V. D. 13.
Additional Info. Son of John and Mrs Helen Gibbons Lydon of 47a Melville Street, Lochgelly, Fife.

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

Name: John Matthews
Age: 24
Date of Death: Thursday 14 September 1944
Rank: Serjeant
Regiment/Service: Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)
Unit/Ship/Squadron: 6th Bn.
Honours/Awards: None Recorded
Service No. 2757352
Cemetery/Memorial: Gradara War Cemetery, Italy.
Grave Reference: I. B. 49.
Additional Info. Son of Bernard and Mrs Jessie Matthews of Lochgelly, Fife.
Headstone in Italy reads: In Loving Memory Of My Son And Our Dear Brother John R.I.P.

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

Name: Andrew H. McEwan
Age: 28
Date of Death: Wednesday 11 April 1917
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)
Unit/Ship/Squadron: 9th Bn.
Honours/Awards: None Recorded
Service No. S/18122
Cemetery/Memorial: Duisans British Cemetery, Etrun, France.
Grave Reference: III. E. 34.
Additional Info. Husband of Mrs Jean McEwan of 31 Main Street, Lochgelly. Born in Crossgates.
Family Headstone gives Date of Death as 10th April 1918, CWGC & SNWM states 11th April 1917.