The Scottish War Graves Project

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

Name: William Wilson
Age: Not Recorded
Date of Death: Tuesday 25 January 1944
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Royal Army Medical Corps
Unit/Ship/Squadron: 17 Field Amb
Honours/Awards: None Recorded
Service No. '7365297'
Cemetery/Memorial: Bowhill Cemetery
Grave Reference: Sec. D. Grave 45.

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

Name: P Young
Age: Not Recorded
Date of Death: Thursday 10 April 1919
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Essex Regiment
Unit/Ship/Squadron: 2nd Garrison Bn.
Honours/Awards: None Recorded
Service No. '25530'
Cemetery/Memorial: Bowhill Cemetery
Grave Reference: N. 63.

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

Name: Archibald Barbour
Age: 21
Date of Death: Tuesday 20 August 1918
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Seaforth Highlanders
Unit/Ship/Squadron: 2nd Bn.
Honours/Awards: None Recorded
Service No. S/22632
Cemetery/Memorial: Loos Memorial, Pas de Calais, France.
Grave Reference: Panel 112 to 115.
Additional Info. Son of John and Mrs Elsie McDonald Barbour of Clunie Mains Cottages, Kirkcaldy, Fife.
Family headstone in Bowhill gives date of death as 20 Sep 1918; CWGC have a date of 21 August 1918. Brother Daniel also fell.

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

Name: Daniel Barbour
Age: 21
Date of Death: Tuesday 26 March 1918
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)
Unit/Ship/Squadron: 7th Bn.
Honours/Awards: None Recorded
Service No. S/13411
Cemetery/Memorial: Arras Memorial, Pas de Calais, France.
Grave Reference: Bay 6.
Additional Info. Son of John and Mrs Elsie McDonald Barbour of Clunie Mains Cottages, Kirkcaldy, Fife.
Family headstone in Bowhill gives date of death as 21 Mar 1918; CWGC have a date of 26 Mar 1918. Brother Archibald also fell.

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

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

Name: Robert Livingston Blyth
Age: 32
Date of Death: Monday 21 October 1918
Rank: Serjeant Major
Regiment/Service: Royal Army Medical Corps
Unit/Ship/Squadron: 3rd British Gen. Hosp.
Honours/Awards: Meritorious Service Medal and Mentioned in Dispatches
Service No. 81245
Cemetery/Memorial: Basra War Cemetery, Iraq.
Grave Reference: I. R. 10.
Additional Info. Husband of Mary Ann Summers (formerly Blyth) of 22 Belmont Gardens, West Hartlepool. Native of Cardenden, Fife. Headstone in Iraq reads: Duty Nobly Done.

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

Name: Thomas Anderson Brown
Age: 22
Date of Death: Sunday 20 February 1944
Rank: Sergeant
Regiment/Service: Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Unit/Ship/Squadron: 429 (R.C.A.F.) Sqdn.
Honours/Awards: None Recorded
Service No. 1367292
Cemetery/Memorial: Berlin 1939-1945 War Cemetery, Germany.
Grave Reference: Joint Grave 9. G. 18-19
Additional Info. Son of John R. and Mrs Ann Anderson Brown of Cardenden, Fife.
Headstone in Germany reads: Not Just Today But Everyday In Silence We Remember.

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

Name: John Robert Bryan Buckingham
Age: 24
Date of Death: CWGC give date as Friday 01 January 1943
Rank: Leading Seaman
Regiment/Service: Royal Naval Reserve
Unit/Ship/Squadron: HMS Fidelity
Honours/Awards: None Recorded
Service No. P/X 18123A
Cemetery/Memorial: Portsmouth Naval Memorial
Grave Reference: Panel 79 Column 3
Son of Mr. and Mrs. J. R. B. Buckingham, of Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire.
L/S JRB Buckingham's Sister Mary married James Slaven in 1946. Mr Slaven was a native of Fife.

On 28 Dec 1942, HMS Fidelity (D 57) (Cdr C.A.M. Péri) fell behind the convoy ONS-154 due to engine troubles and streamed its torpedo nets, which brought down her speed to 2-3 knots. The next day, the commander decided to head for the Azores and launched her motor torpedo boat HMS MTB-105 and a Kingfisher floatplane for anti-submarine patrol. The aircraft spotted two lifeboats of Empire Shackleton which were towed by the two landing craft to HMS Fidelity. 43 survivors were picked up and the aircraft and the landing craft were lifted aboard again.

At 21.38 hours on 29 December, U-225 (Leimkühler) fired the stern torpedo at HMS Fidelity, but missed. U-615 (Kapitzky) observed the suspicous vessel during the day and attacked her with five single torpedoes between 22.00 and 23.00 hours, but they either missed or were caught by the torpedo nets. At 16.38 hours on 30 December, the vessel was finally hit by two torpedoes from U-435 and sank immediately after heavy detonations. The U-boat reported a surprising high number of survivors on overcrowded rafts and swimming in the water, none of them were rescued and all drowned in the worsening weather. 274 crew members, 51 Royal Marines and the 43 survivors were lost. The landing craft HMS LCV-752 and HMS LCV-754 on board were lost with the ship. The engines of the MTB broke down and the crew of eight men was later rescued by HMCS Woodstock (K 238) (T/A/Cdr G.H. Griffiths, RCN), which then scuttled the disabled vessel. They were the only survivors apart from two men that had been picked up by HMCS St. Laurent (H 83) (A/Cdr G.S. Windeyer, RCN) after the other Kingfisher floatplane from the vessel crashed on take off on 28 December.

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

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Name: Edward Cleall
Age: Not Recorded
Date of Death: Friday 17 November 1944
Rank: Gunner
Regiment/Service: Royal Artillery
Unit/Ship/Squadron: 63 (Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars) Anti-Tank Regt.
Honours/Awards: None Recorded
Service No. 834446
Cemetery/Memorial: Overloon War Cemetery, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands. Grave Reference: II. D. 5.

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

Name: John Smith Currie
Age: 21
Date of Death: Saturday 10 June 1916
Rank: Gunner
Regiment/Service: Canadian Field Artillery
Unit/Ship/Squadron: 1st. Bde.
Honours/Awards: None Recorded
Service No. 90857
Cemetery/Memorial: Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.
Grave Reference: VII. C. 18.
Additional Info. Son of Alex and Christina Smith Currie of Balderran House, Auchterderran, Cardenden.
Headstone in Belgium reads: Blessed Are The Pure In Heart For They Shall See God.

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

Name: Alexander Duncan
Age: 34
Date of Death: Thursday 03 January 1918
Rank: Corporal
Regiment/Service: Royal Engineers
Unit/Ship/Squadron: Inland Water Transport
Honours/Awards: None Recorded
Service No. 122122
Cemetery/Memorial: Aire Communal Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France. Grave Reference: I. F. 13.
Additional Info. Son of John and Mrs Mary Duncan.
Headstone in Bowhill gives a date of death as 4 Jan 1918; CWGC give date as 03 Jan 1918.
Headstone in France reads: Beloved Son of John and Mary Duncan, Cardenden, Fifeshire.
Brother Willie also fell.

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

Name: William Grey Duncan
Age: 29
Date of Death: Monday 09 April 1917
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Royal Scots
Unit/Ship/Squadron: 11th Bn.
Honours/Awards: None Recorded
Service No. 39585
Cemetery/Memorial: Arras Memorial, Pas de Calais, France.
Grave Reference: Bay 1 and 2
Additional Info. Formerly Service No. 13768 Black Watch (Royal Highlanders).
Born in Linlithgow, Enlisted in Bowhill, Fifeshire.
Son of John and Mary Duncan.
His brother Alexander also fell."

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

Name: Robert Binning Eadie
Age: 19
Date of Death: Monday 09 April 1917
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: South African Infantry
Unit/Ship/Squadron: B' Coy. 4th South African Scottish Regt. Of Infantry
Honours/Awards: None Recorded
Service No. 2242
Cemetery/Memorial: Highland Cemetery, Roclincourt, Pas-de-Calais, France.
Grave Reference: I. B. II.
Additional Info. Son of Robert Girkins Eadie and Janet Binning Eadie, of Crown Mines, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Headstone in France reads: Tranquil You Lie Your Memory Hallowed In The Land You Loved

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

Name: James Erskine Foote
Age: 20
Date of Death: Tuesday 10 July 1917
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)
Unit/Ship/Squadron: 3rd Coy.
Honours/Awards: None Recorded
Service No. 27829
Cemetery/Memorial: Croxyde Military Cemetery, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.
Grave Reference: I. D. 54.
Additional Info. Son of David and Elizabeth Erskine Foote of 15 Dundas St. Lochgelly.
Headstone in Belgium reads: He Died That We Might Live

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

Name: John (Jack) Forsyth
Age: 26
Date of Death: Wednesday 18 April 1945
Rank: Corporal
Regiment/Service: Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)
Unit/Ship/Squadron: 7th Bn.
Honours/Awards: None Recorded
Service No. 2759208
Cemetery/Memorial: Klagenfurt War Cemetery, Austria
Grave Reference: 2. E. 8.
Additional Info. Son of Mr and Mrs Robert B. Forsyth of Cardenden, Fife. Headstone in Austria reads: May The Winds Of Heaven Blow Softly Here Where Lies Sleeping One We Loved So Dear