The Scottish War Graves Project

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

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Name: Robert Morton Sinclair
Age: 21
Date of Death: Monday 30 October 1944
Rank: Sergeant
Regiment/Service: Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Unit/Ship/Squadron: 21 Operational Training Unit
Honours/Awards: None Recorded
Service No. '1565049'
Cemetery/Memorial: Kirkcaldy (Bennochy) Cemetery Grave Reference: Sec. O. Grave 90.

Additional Info. Son Of William And Roberta Sinclair, Of Edinburgh.
He was a crew member of Wellington X (NC649) which took off from Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire,on a night cross country training flight. The aircraft crashed out of control near Stow on the Would, Gloucestershire.

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

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Name: Frederick Torson
Age: 39
Date of Death: Monday 23 September 1918
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Australian Machine Gun Corps
Unit/Ship/Squadron: 1st Machine Gun Battalion, Company 3, Reinforcement 8
Honours/Awards: None Recorded
Service No. '521/A'
Cemetery/Memorial: Kirkcaldy (Bennochy) Cemetery Grave Reference: F. F. 89.

Additional Info. Husband Of Ruth Agnes Landels Torson (nee Love), Of The White House, Dunshelt, Fife, Scotland.
Place of birth: Stockholm Sweden, Religion: Presbyterian, Occupation: Miner, Address Thornbury, Queensland, Marital status at embarkation: Single, Age at embarkation 37, Next of kin Mother, Mrs L Fernquist, Vestras, Sweden, Enlistment date 22 July 1916, Unit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria, on board HMAT A20 Hororata on 23 November 1916. Pte Torson was wounded on 7th November 1917 and admitted to Suffolk Hospital, Bury St Edmunds on the 23rd of November 1917 with gun shot wounds to left arm and chest. On the 10th of May 1918 he married Ruth Agnes Landels Love in St Giles Registary Office London. Miss Love was a Red Cross Nurse from Kirkcaldy living in Ampton Hall, Ingham, Bury St Edmunds. Pte Torson returned to France on the 18th of June 1918 and was admitted to Bermondsey Military Hospital, Lewisham, London on the 2nd of September 1918 and died there on the 23rd.

He is buried in Bennochy Cemetery, Kirkcaldy beside his Brother-in-law Canadian Infantryman Charles Goode Landels Love."

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

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Name: David Lyall Watson
Age: Not Recorded
Date of Death: Saturday 14 September 1918
Rank: Company Quartermaster Serjeant
Regiment/Service: Labour Corps
Unit/Ship/Squadron: 42nd Coy.
Honours/Awards: Meritorious Service Medal
Service No. 425383
Cemetery/Memorial: Kirkcaldy (Bennochy) Cemetery Grave Reference: L. 65

Additional Info. Born in Cupar; enlisted in Glasgow.
Formerly Service No. 23935, Battery Serjeant Major in the Royal Field Artillery. Meritorious Service Medal Award announced in the London Gazette dated 17th June 1918.

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

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Name: George Williamson
Age: 36
Date of Death: Thursday 10 August 1916
Rank: Sapper
Regiment/Service: Royal Engineers
Unit/Ship/Squadron: 64th Field Coy.
Honours/Awards: None Recorded
Service No. '121327'
Cemetery/Memorial: Kirkcaldy (Bennochy) Cemetery Grave Reference: M. 851.

Additional Info. Born in Kinghorn; enlisted in Kirkcaldy.
Husband Of Mrs. Williamson, Of 16, Oswalds Wynd, Kirkcaldy.

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

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Name: Robert Anderson
Age: 30
Date of Death: Friday 05 July 1918
Rank: Sergeant
Regiment/Service: Royal Garrison Artillery
Unit/Ship/Squadron: 118th Siege Bty.
Honours/Awards: None Recorded
Service No. 344046
Cemetery/Memorial: Grootebeek British Cemetery, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.
Grave Reference: F. 6.

Additional Info. Born in Abbotshall, Kirkcaldy; enlisted in Kirkcaldy.
Son of John, Smith Anderson and Rachel Anderson of 96 Meldrum Rd. Kirkcaldy.

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

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Name: William Arnot
Age: 21
Date of Death: Sunday 16 May 1915
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Royal Scots (TF)
Unit/Ship/Squadron: 9th Bn.
Honours/Awards: None Recorded
Service No. 2260
Cemetery/Memorial: Boulogne Eastern Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France. Grave Reference: VIII. D. 20.

Additional Info. Youngest son of William and Helen Millar Arnot of 214 High Street, Kirkcaldy, Fife.
Enlisted in Edinburgh.
Headstone in France reads: Son of William and Helen Arnot of Kirkcaldy Scotland.

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

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Name: James Baillie
Age: 23
Date of Death: Saturday 30 March 1918
Rank: Lance Corporal
Regiment/Service: Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)
Unit/Ship/Squadron: 1st/7th (Fife) Battalion (Territorial)
Honours/Awards: None Recorded
Service No. 290770
Cemetery/Memorial: Cabaret-Rouge British Cemetery. Souchez, Pas de Calais, France. Grave Reference: XVI. F. 11

Born Kirkcaldy; son of Henry and Mrs Georgina Mathews Baillie. Enlisted Kirkcaldy.

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

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Name: Henry Morton Barnet
Age: 27
Date of Death: Tuesday 23 April 1918
Rank: Second Lieutenant
Regiment/Service: King's Royal Rifle Corps
Unit/Ship/Squadron: 1st Bn.
Honours/Awards: None Recorded
Service No. N/A
Cemetery/Memorial: Neiderzwehren Cemetery, Kassel, Hessen, Germany. Grave Reference: IV. E. 12.

Additional Info. Born Kirkcaldy; the son of Alexander and Mrs Eliza Jane Howieson Barnet of Meadowbank, Kirkcaldy, Fife. Headstone in Germany reads: Greater Love Hath No Man Than This. Brother James also fell (1918).

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

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Name: James Howieson Barnet
Age: 31
Date of Death: Thursday 01 August 1918
Rank: Second Lieutenant
Regiment/Service: Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)
Unit/Ship/Squadron: 4th Bn.
Honours/Awards: None Recorded
Service No. N/A
Cemetery/Memorial: Raperie British Cemetery, Villemontoire, Aisne, France. Grave Reference: III. E. 5.

Additional Info. Son of Alexander and Mrs Eliza Jane Howieson Barnet of Meadowbank, Kirkcaldy, Fife; husband of Margaret Rutherford Sinclair Barnet of Linwood, Cathcart, Glasgow. Brother Henry also fell (1918).

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

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Name: Beaumont Crowther Oswald Beatson
Age: 22
Date of Death: Monday 23 April 1917
Rank: Second Lieutenant
Regiment/Service: Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)
Unit/Ship/Squadron: 7th (Fife) Battalion (Territorial)
Honours/Awards: None Recorded
Service No. Not Applicable
Cemetery/Memorial: Brown's Copse Cemetery, Roeux, Pas de Calais, France.
Grave Reference: II. H. 23.

Additional Info. Born Kirkcaldy; son of D. Oswald Beatson and Mrs Ida Cameron Beatson.

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

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Name: Peter Bissett
Age: 22
Date of Death: Monday 08 May 1944
Rank: Flight Sergeant
Regiment/Service: Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Unit/Ship/Squadron: 178 Sqdn.
Honours/Awards: None Recorded
Service No. 1551271
Cemetery/Memorial: Bucharest War Cemetery, Romania. Grave Reference: Joint Grave 2. D. 1-4.

Additional Info. Son of Thomas Ireland Bissett and Mrs Elsie McMillan Bissett of Leslie, Fife. Headstone in Romania reads: We Shall Meet Again, Dear Peter, In God's Good Time.

Peter Bissett was born in Kirkcaldy Fife on the 25th July 1921. He was the eldest son of Thomas and Elspeth Bissett and brother to Elsie Sheila and Ian. In 1928 Peter and his family moved to Northallerton where his father set up and organised the Miles Sykes lino factory on Romanby Road. Peter attended the Primary School the Church School and finally the Grammar School. On leaving school in 1937 he began training as a civil engineer. In 1939 the lino factory in Northallerton closed and the Bissett family moved back to Kirkcaldy in Scotland.
Peter volunteered for the RAF in 1940 and after basic training he was accepted for pilot training and was sent to the Empire Flying Training School in Bulawayo Rhodesia. After gaining his wings he was posted to No 178 Liberator Squadron in the Middle East and then to Italy. The Liberator was an American four enginged bomber used extensively by the RAF. His squadron was part of 205 Group and Peter flew on many bombing missions from the Foggia Plain in Italy.
On the 8th May 1944, No 178 Squadron were part of a force of bombers detailed to attack the oil fields and refineries of Ploiesti in Romania. The oilfields at Ploiesti were a prime target for the United States and the RAF bombers and were vital to the German war machine, and as such were heavily defended by flak guns and fighters.
Liberator Serial No.BZ932, Identification Code Letter “Y” from 178 Squadron Royal Air Force was shot down on 08 July 1944 by Luftwaffe Night Fighters while returning from a bombing raid on the Oil Refinery at Bucharest, Romania. The aircraft crashed at Lunguletu in Romania, 38 km North-West of Bucharest and close to the defending Luftwaffe Fighter Base at Titu/Boteni.
He is remembered in the Central Church of the Royal Air Force St.Clement Danes London, the Kirkcaldy War Memorial, the Kirkaldy Parish Church door and a cherry tree was planted to his memory in the church yard. Peter is also remembered on the Bronze Memorial Plaque on the gates of Northallerton Grammar School.
Peter was aged 22 years.

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

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Name: John Christie Mackie Blyth
Age: 19
Date of Death: Sunday 03 September 1916
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: King's Own Scottish Borderers
Unit/Ship/Squadron: 2nd Bn.
Honours/Awards: None Recorded
Service No. 44101
Cemetery/Memorial: Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France.
Grave Reference: Pier and Face 4A and 4D

Additional Info. Enlisted in Kirkcaldy. Son of Thomas William and Margaret Mackie Blyth of 1 Matthew St. Kirkcaldy, Fife. Formerly #2424 H.C. Bn.

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

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Name: Alexander Bogie
Age: 20
Date of Death: Saturday 01 July 1916
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Royal Scots
Unit/Ship/Squadron: 16th Bn.
Honours/Awards: None Recorded
Service No. 27929
Cemetery/Memorial: Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France. Grave Reference: Pier and Face 6D and 7D

Additional Info. Son of the late William S. and Mrs Janet Briggs Bogie of 213 Links St. Kirkcaldy.

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Name: Norman McLeod Brown
Age: 27
Date of Death: Thursday 24 December 1914
Rank: Sergeant
Regiment/Service: London Regiment (London Scottish)
Unit/Ship/Squadron: C' Coy. 1st/14th Bn.
Honours/Awards: None Recorded
Service No. 1057
Cemetery/Memorial: Arras Road Cemetery, Roclincourt, Pas de Calais, France.
Grave Reference: III. N. 29.

Additional Info. Enlisted in London. Son of Mr and Mrs Robert Brown of Kirkcaldy, Fife.

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

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Name: Archibald Monro Bryce
Age: 29
Date of Death: Thursday 14 September 1944
Rank: Lieutenant
Regiment/Service: Royal Armoured Corps
Unit/Ship/Squadron: 15th/19th The King's Royal Hussars
Honours/Awards: None Recorded
Service No. 212381
Cemetery/Memorial: Geel War Cemetery, Antwerpen, Belgium.
Grave Reference: IV.D.7.

Additional Info. Son of Archibald and Margaret Ann Thomson Bryce of Kirkcaldy, Fife: husband of Margaret Douglas Stewart Bryce of Kirkcaldy.
Headstone in Belgium reads 'Ever Remembered'."