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apanderson
Joined: 02 Oct 2007 Posts: 6903 Location: Stirlingshire
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Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2007 6:19 pm Post subject: |
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General? CHARLES HAGART, C. B. Colonel of the VII th Hussars
Born June 23rd 1814, died July 30th 1879 (age 65)
Interred in East Manor Family Burial Ground, Compton Parish, Surrey.
Lt. Colonel JAMES McCALL? HAGART, C. B. …..? The VII th Hussars
Born November 17th 1817, died September 15th 1894 (age 76)
Various websites mention Charles Hagart
http://www.qohmuseum.org.uk/bankes.htm
http://www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/cav/D07h.htm
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apanderson
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ROBERT G. YOUNG, Captain, Black Watch. died 5th August 1952 aged 47 years
Husband of Annie McKechnie.
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apanderson
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GEORGE G. PENMAN, Corporal, R.A.M.C.,
Died at Bloemfontein, South Africa 12th November 1900 aged 25 years
Son of Robert & Mary Penman (nee Gibb)
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apanderson
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ANTONI KIZIUKIEWICZ, Sgt. Major, Polish Forces
Born Grodno 20.6.1902, died Falkirk 5.6.1970
Husband of Zofia Kozlowska
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apanderson
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WALTER AITKEN, Major in the 42nd Regiment “The Black Watch”
Born 10th April 1842, killed at the Battle of Tamai, (Tamanieh) Egyptian Sudan, 13th March 1884
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apanderson
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ALEXANDER VERNOR MacCALL of Hay Park, Polmont, Paymaster-in-chief Royal Navy
Served with Naval Brigade in Abyssian War 1867, Ashanti War 1873-74
Died 2nd June 1910 aged 72 years,
Husband of Jane Clark Kincaid
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apanderson
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apanderson
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Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2007 7:02 pm Post subject: |
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ARTHUR PATERSON, Corporal, 42nd Highlanders, killed at Kirbekan, Egypt, 10th February 1885
Son of John and Jessie Paterson (nee Thomson)
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apanderson
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Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2007 7:04 pm Post subject: |
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JOHN DEVLIN killed in action at Atbara, Sudan 8th April 1898 aged 28 years
Son of John and Mary Ann Devlin (nee Whiteside)
Mod Edit: Adam
He is also commemorated on the Seaforth Highlanders Memorial 1897-1898, St Giles High Kirk, Edinburgh and the Atbara battlefield memorial, Sudan. This second memorial still existed in 1937. Whether it has survived fifty years of Sudanese independence is another matter.
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apanderson
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Captain ARTHUR JOHN St.JOHN, Royal Iniskilling Fusiliers
Died 6th February 1938 aged 75 years.
(Son-in-law of Charles William Maxwell-Muller, Pianist and Composer
And his wife Janet Marion Alexandra Wardrop of Glenyards?)
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apanderson
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Lt. Col. HARRY C. DAVIE, M.C., died 23rd October 1966 aged 72 years
Husband of Christina Cuthill McIntyre
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apanderson
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Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2007 7:13 pm Post subject: |
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Pte. WILLIAM STRACHAN, late of the 7th C.? Highlanders
Died 4th May 1914 aged 62 years.
See following post for further details
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apanderson
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William Strachan – Obituary
Falkirk Herald, May 1914 (Saturday Edition)
"The late Ex-Pte. Wm. Strachan
The death took place from acute pneumonia after a few days illness at his residence, Howgate, on Monday of ex-Private William Strachan, who had passed through a great deal of active army service and who was a well known and esteemed National Reservist. Mr Strachan who was 62 years of age, was a native of Denny, but the most of his life was spent in Falkirk. He was originally a moulder to-trade and while a young man he enlisted in the first battalion of the Black Watch and later transferred to the second battalion of the Seaforth Highlanders, from which he retired 21 years ago, on a pension, after undergoing 21 years service.
He passed through the Ashanti War of 1873-74 and took part in the storming of Coomassie. He was also engaged in the Afghan War of 1878-80. In the Egyptian War of 1882 he was present at the battle of Tel-el-Kebir and in 1885 (?) he was engaged in the Blackmount Expedition and he took part in the engagements at Piazara (sp?). He possessed five medals and also the Khedive Star for the Egyptian War of 1882.
Since returning to Falkirk, Mr Strachan had been engaged in the warehouse of Falkirk Foundry. He was a member and at one time office-bearer of the Fort George Lodge of Freemasons and was prominently associated with the Falkirk and District Old Soldiers’ and Sailors’ (R.N.) Association, by the members of which and by all who knew him, he was highly esteemed. Mr. Strachan, who was unmarried, resided with a married sister in Howgate.
The deceased was buried with military honours in Falkirk Cemetery on Wednesday afternoon. There was a fair attendance of National Reservists and others. After the coffin had been lowered into the grave, a firing party, which was in charge of ex-Sergt-Instructor James Brown, fired three volleys with blank cartridge over the grave. Piper Lindsay played ‘Lochaber no more’ on the bagpipes; and Mr. John McQueen sounded ‘The Last Post on the bugle. The service was a very impressive one.
On the grave was placed a beautiful wreath intertwined with the Seaforth tartan ribbon which was subscribed for by the members of the Old Soldiers’ and Sailors’ (R.N.) Association."
(I forgot to take a note of the actual date of the edition of the Falkirk Herald. )
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Adam Brown
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Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2008 10:53 am Post subject: |
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Anne
That's a very interesting article. Going on the dates in the article he joined the 42nd in 1872. He was still in the Black Watch in 1873-74 in Ashanti. By 1878 he had transferred to 78th Highlanders.
He probably transferred in 1874 when the 42nd and 78th were serving together in Dover (along with 79th and 93rd Highlanders) in a Highland Brigade.
The 78th then went to Afghanistan in 1879 and then moved to India in 1881 when it became 2nd Bn Seaforth Highlanders.
In August 1882 two companies from the 2nd Bn joined the 1st Bn in Aden. This unit then went to Egypt in 1882 to fight at Tel-el-Kebir.
He must have then returned to the 2nd Bn to take part in the Black Mountain Expedition on the North West Frontier in 1888. It may be Hazara rather than Piazara since there was a punitive expedition to Hazara in 1891.
He would then have been discharged in 1892.
His medals would include
Ashantee War Medal with 'Coomassie' Clasp
2nd Afghan War Medal
Egypt Medal
Khedive's Egypt Star
India General Service Medal with two clasps - 'Hazara 1888' and 'Hazara 1891'
He had six in total according to the article. The other medal would not be a campaign medal. Did they have long service and good conduct medals in the 1880s?
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apanderson
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Posted: Sun Apr 20, 2008 12:35 pm Post subject: Matthew Hutchison Graham |
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The following man has been on my list of 'possibles' and recently, with the help of Jim Graham, from Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, (a descendant of the family) I've finally been able to verify his details.
Jim has also very kindly given his permission for me to upload Matthew's photograph.
CWGC:
Name: GRAHAM, HUTCHIESON MATTHEW
Initials: H M
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Gunner
Regiment/Service: Royal Field Artillery
Unit Text: 55th Div. Ammunition Col.
Age: 36
Date of Death: 08/01/1918
Service No: 100436
Additional information: Son of John and Elizabeth Graham (nee Hutchison), of Falkirk; husband of Elizabeth Graham, of Barloch House, Milngavie, Glasgow.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: IV. F. 37.
Cemetery: LONGUENESSE (ST. OMER) SOUVENIR CEMETERY
SDGW:
Name: GRAHAM, Matthew Huntchinson
Regiment, Corps etc.: Royal Horse Artillery and Royal Field Artillery
Battalion etc.:
Last name: Graham
First name(s): Matthew Huntchinson
Initials: M H
Birthplace: Dublin
Enlisted: Dublin
Residence:
Rank: GUNNER
Number: 100436
Date died: 08 January 1918
How died: Died
Theatre of war: France & Flanders
SNWM: not listed.
Matthew was born on the 10th May 1881 at 3 Melville Street, Falkirk, Stirlingshire - not in Dublin as his entry on SDGW states.
It is unknown whether he enlisted in Dublin.
He married Elizabeth Donaldson on 4th August 1909 in Glasgow.
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