The Scottish War Graves Project

Adam Brown · Joined: 21 Sep 2007 Posts: 714 Location: Edinburgh

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DerekR · Joined: 04 Oct 2007 Posts: 809 Location: Hawick

Name: McNAMARA, THOMAS
Initials: T
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: King's Own Scottish Borderers
Unit Text: 7th (Airborne) Bn.
Age: 21
Date of Death: 04/04/1944
Service No: 14211483
Additional information: Son of William and Margaret McNamara, of Dundee.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Sec. D.D. Grave 367.
Cemetery: DUNDEE EASTERN NECROPOLIS

A member of No.3 Platoon, "A" Company, 7th Bn. KOSB, who was instantly killed when their glider crashed near Warnford on the 4th April 1944.
Source: "Off At Last - An Illustrated History of the 7th (Galloway) Battalion of the KOSB by Robert Sigmund.
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DerekR · Joined: 04 Oct 2007 Posts: 809 Location: Hawick

Cemetery: DUNDEE EASTERN NECROPOLIS
Country: United Kingdom
Locality: unspecified
Location Information: This large cemetery is 2 miles from Dundee station, on the Dundee-Arbroath road, and belongs to the Dundee Corporation. Apart from a small group of 14 graves in a reserved plot in an extension to the cemetery, about 500 yards from the 1914-1918 Cross of Sacrifice, the 1939-1945 War graves are in various parts of the burial ground. Some have permanent privately erected memorials instead of the usual Commission headstone. The total number of 1939-1945 War burials is 145, a special memorial commemorates in the reserved plot a Dutch merchant seaman buried elsewhere in the cemetery. There are also 132 burials of the 1914-1918 War, and these too are scattered in various parts of the cemetery.
No. of Identified Casualties: 274
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FortyTwa · Joined: 12 May 2009 Posts: 382 Location: Arbroath

Came across this when having a wander and recorded it as it didn't look like the inscription would survive much longer. This man (James Scott of the 92nd Highlanders, aged 32) would have taken part in the Kabul to Kandahar march before fighting and dying in the final decisive battle of the 2nd Afghan War on September 1st 1880. Interesting to see change in accepted spelling of Candahar and Afghaniston (sic)

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DerekR · Joined: 04 Oct 2007 Posts: 809 Location: Hawick

DUFFY, FRANCIS

Rank:
Private
Service No:
954
Date of Death:
21/02/1915
Age:
26
Regiment/Service:
Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)

2nd/5th Bn.
Grave Reference:
Section DD. Lair 103D
Cemetery:
DUNDEE EASTERN NECROPOLIS
Additional Information:
Son of Michael and Mary Ann Duffy; husband of Ann Duffy, of Dundee.
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