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Wamphray Parish Churchyard ***COMPLETE***

 
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 07, 2010 9:54 pm    Post subject: Wamphray Parish Churchyard ***COMPLETE*** Reply with quote

OS Map Ref: NY 131 965

This is a rural community with no real centre and the church is best located using the OS Map Ref.

Number of CWGC burials 0


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PostPosted: Sun Feb 07, 2010 10:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

This one is a mystery. Why did he enlist under his mother's maiden name? Underage perhaps? SDGW has confirmed it to be him.

Name: IRVING
Initials: A
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Highland Light Infantry
Unit Text: 17th Bn.
Date of Death: 09/08/1916
Service No: 2992
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: P. 44.
Cemetery: CAMBRIN CHURCHYARD EXTENSION




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PostPosted: Sat Feb 13, 2010 10:32 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Name: JOHNSTONE, JOSEPH
Initials: J
Nationality: Canadian
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Canadian Infantry (Alberta Regiment)
Unit Text: 50th Bn.
Age: 30
Date of Death: 26/10/1917
Service No: 808784
Additional information: Son of James and Mary Johnstone, of Johnsfield, Lockerbie, Dumfries. Born at Broomhills, Whamphray, Beattock, Dumfriesshire.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: III. A. 1.
Cemetery: BUTTES NEW BRITISH CEMETERY, POLYGON WOOD




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Name: PATERSON
Initials: J
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Royal Scots
Unit Text: 13th Bn.
Date of Death: 18/01/1917
Service No: 33989
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: O. IV. O. 10.
Cemetery: ST. SEVER CEMETERY EXTENSION, ROUEN




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PostPosted: Sat Feb 13, 2010 10:36 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Capt William Drought Rogerson elder son of
Colonel William Rogerson
died Dec 1948




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PostPosted: Sat Feb 13, 2010 10:39 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Lt John Rogerson of Wamphray and Dumcrief
physician to the forces
died 20th December 1839 aged 77

Capt John Alexander Rogerson
of St Michaels Lockerbie
younger son of Col William Rogerson
died 12 September 1985 aged 79 years


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PostPosted: Sat Feb 13, 2010 10:43 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Colonel William Rogerson
Kings Shropshire Light Infantry (53rd Regt)
third son of the late William Rogerson
of Wamphray and Gillesbie
and (grandson?) of the above
who died 5th June 1932 aged 90 years




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PostPosted: Sat Feb 13, 2010 10:45 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Name: WAUGH, JOHN ALEXANDER
Initials: J A
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Seaforth Highlanders
Unit Text: 1st Bn.
Age: 21
Date of Death: 28/06/1916
Service No: S/13234
Additional information: Son of the late Robert and Elizabeth Waugh of Willows, Wamphray, Beattock, Dumfriesshire.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 37 and 64.
Memorial: BASRA MEMORIAL




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