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DelBoy
Joined: 02 Feb 2008 Posts: 1188 Location: Arbroath
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Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2009 1:39 am Post subject: Brechin Cathedral Churchyard |
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There are no CWGC burials here.
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DelBoy
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Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2009 2:12 am Post subject: |
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IN MEMORY OF
JOHN CAIRNCROSS
SOMETIME MERCHANT IN BRECHIN
FORMERLY OF THE ROYAL ARTILLERY
BORN 15TH MAY 1783 DIED 14TH JUNE 1858
HE SERVED IN THE PENINSULAR CAMPAIGN AND WAS
PRINCIPAL CLERK IN THE ARTILLERY OFFICE AT HEAD QUARTERS
INTIL THE DUKE OF WELLINGTONS ARMY FINALLY QUITTED FRANCE
HE WAS PRESENT AT THE BATTLES OF
CORUNNA, OPORTO, TALAVERA, FUENTES D'ONORO, BADAJOZ, SALAMANCA, CIUDAD RODRIGO, VITTORIA, SAN SEBASTIAN, PYRENEES, ORTHEZ, TOULOUSE.
FOR WHICH HE WON THE WAR MEDAL WITH CLASPS |
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DelBoy
Joined: 02 Feb 2008 Posts: 1188 Location: Arbroath
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Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2009 2:24 am Post subject: |
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Name: DON, ALEXANDER DUFF BROWNLEE
Initials: A D B
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Lieutenant
Regiment/Service: Royal Engineers
Unit Text: 2nd Field Coy.
Age: 24
Date of Death: 21/10/1916
Additional information: Son of the Rev. John Davidson Don and Catherine Isabel Brownlee Don, of King William's Town, South Africa.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Sp. Mem. 7.
Cemetery: GUARDS' CEMETERY, LESBOEUFS |
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DelBoy
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Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2009 2:33 am Post subject: |
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THIS TABLET IS ERECTED TO THE MEMORY OF
SIR WILLIAM ANTHONY GIB K.C.B. INDIAN ARMY
BORN 9TH JAN 1827 DIED 18TH SEPT 1915
ALSO TO THE MEMORY OF HIS WIFE SARAH CAROLINE DAUGHTER
OF GEN HOWARD DOWKER, MADRAS ARMY, WHO DIED 30TH NOV 1910 |
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DelBoy
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Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2009 2:44 am Post subject: |
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TO THE MEMORY OF
ANDREW WILL
LATE LIEUTENANT IN THE 92ND
(HIGHLAND REGIMENT)
WHO AFTER SERVING FOR 4 YEARS
IN THE PENINSULAR WAR
WHERE HE WAS SEVERELY WOUNDED
IN THE HEAD
AND AT THE BATTLE OF
QUATRE BRAS & WATERLOO
FELL IN JAMAICA ON THE 7TH OF OCT
1819
A VICTIM TO THE
CLIMATE |
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