The Scottish War Graves Project

Heather

This Brodie headstone stands in the Blairgowrie Cemetery, Blairgowrie, Perthshire. It's not a great photograph - I shall get a digital image taken, the next time I come north of the border. This is the Uncle Willie I never knew. He was brother to Alexander Brown Brodie (Ali), George Brodie (my father), Robert Forbes Petrie Brodie (Bob) and Annie Forbes Petrie Brodie (Mrs. James Wallace). He was Uncle to Don; Ali; Effie; Eric; Dorothy; Isla; Ian; Heather; Moira; and Rona.
The stone reads:

In Loving Memory of
my husband
George Brown Brodie
who died at Lily Bank Westfields
September 9th 1943 aged 68 years

MY YOUNGEST SON
WILLIAM FORBES PETRIE
R.A.F.V.R., P.O.W.
LOST IN THE PACIFIC
NOV 29th 1943 AGED 29 YEARS

Also Margaret Petrie
Wife of Above
George Brodie
Died 21st September 1952

Posted in memory of
WILLIAM FORBES PETRIE BRODIE
Born 25th January 1914, 67 George Street, Blairgowrie
Post Man, Glenfarg and Blairgowrie
Aircraftman 2nd Class 993595
Enlisted 18 April 1940
P.O.W. : Captured when Singapore fell to the Japanese (end 1941)
Killed 29 November 1943, on the Japanese ship Suez Maru