Lance Corporal James Weir 11th (Service) Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. He was killed in action during the Battle of Loos on 26th September 1915, aged 20 and is commemorated on the Loos Memorial, Dud Corner, Loos, France. He had been born in Greenlaw and was the son of Samuel and Euphemia Weir of Rumbletonlaw, …
Corporal George Waldie, Base Depot ,Army Ordnance Corps. He died from pleurisy on Service in Roseneath Military Hospital, Wrexham, aged 35, on 12th February 1918 and is buried in Gordon churchyard. He had been born in Gordon and was the son of Robert and Margaret Waldie of Gordon and had enlisted in Edinburgh. He had …
Private Andrew Scott, 1st/4th ( Border ) Battalion, Kings Own Scottish Borderers. He was killed in action at Gallipoli on 12th July 1915 during the ” Charge ” on the Turkish trenches at Achi Baba Nullah, aged 21. He had been born in Hawick and was the son of Isabella Scott of Primside, Yetholm, Roxburghshire …
Private William Redpath, 1st/4th ( Territorial ) Battalion, Royal Scots. He was killed in action on Gallipoli on 28th June 1915 during the Battle of Krithia, aged 28 and is commemorated on the Helles Memorial, Helles, Gallipoli ,Turkey. He fell in the attack on Turkish trenches at Gully Ravine which were eventually captured but at …
Private Thomas Ormston, 2nd Battalion, Black Watch. He was killed in action in Mesopotamia on 21st January 1916 and is commemorated on the Basra Memorial Iraq. He had been born in Eccles and was the son of John and the late Isabella Ormston of West Morriston and East Gordon Farms. He had been employed as …
Private John Mallen, 2nd Battalion ,Scots Guards. He was killed in France on 12th March 1917 aged 37. He had been born at Rumbleton, Berwickshire and was the son of John and Margaret Mallen of Gordon. He is buried in Sailly-Saillisel British Cemetery, France. He had served his apprenticeship as a grocer in Greenlaw before …
Sergeant James Messer, 2nd/4th Battalion, Kings Own Scottish Borderers. He died on Service in hospital in Chelmsford on 24th February 1916 after an operation to remove his appendix. He had been born in Gordon and was the son of farmer Charles Messer and is buried in Gordon Churchyard. The family had lived in Gordon for …
Captain George Stuart Henderson V.C. D.S.O. and Bar, M.C. and 5 times Mentioned in Dispatches. 2nd Battalion, Manchester Regiment. He was Scotland’s most decorated soldier and was killed in action on 24th July 1920 aged 26. He had been born in Gordon and was the son of Robert and Mary Henderson of Mount Hooley, Jedburgh …
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Second Lieutenant Noel Charles Henderson, “D” Company, 2nd Battalion, Black Watch. He was killed in action in France on 9th October 1915 during the Battle of Loos, aged 20. He had been born in London and was the son of George and Mary Henderson of Kensington, London and is buried in the Rue-David Military Cemetery, …
Captain Kenneth Selby Henderson ,1 Squadron, Royal Flying Corps. He was killed in action in France on 2nd June 1918, aged 24. He was the son of John and Alice Henderson, Jedburgh, Yaraka, Queensland, Australia and the grandson of John Henderson of Middlethird, Gordon. He had originally enlisted in the 5th Australian Light Horse. He …
Private Richard Gibson, 12th ( Service ) Battalion, Royal Scots. He was killed in action in France , aged 30, during the Battle of Arras on 3rd May 1917 and is commemorated on the Arras Memorial. He had been born in Coldingham, and was the son of Richard and the late Annie Gibson and he …
Sergeant Henry William Forbes, 16th Battalion, Canadian Infantry (Canadian Scottish). He died from wounds in the 1st South Midlands Casualty Clearing Station at Hazebrouck in Belgium on 27th April 1915, aged 35. He had been born in Methlick, Aberdeenshire and was the son of Arthur and Mary Forbes of Mellerstain, Gordon. He is buried in …
