Private Anthony Bell Lauder, 1st/4th ( Border ) Battalion, King’s Own Scottish Borderers. He died on 14th November 1917, aged 41, from wounds suffered in action in Palestine and is buried in the Ramleh War Cemetery in Israel. He had been born at Proctor Smithy, Kelso, Roxburghshire and was the son of John and Jemima …
Private David Laidlaw, 1st Battalion Seaforth Highlanders. He was killed in action on 7th January 1916 and is commemorated on the Basra Memorial in Iraq. He had been born in Galashiels and was the son of Hugh and Isobel Laidlaw of Garfield Street, Hawick. He had been employed in Stow as a spinner when …
Private James Henderson Doig, 43rd ( Cameron Highlanders of Canada ) Battalion, Canadian Infantry. He died on 2nd February 1917, aged 33, and is buried in the Ecoivres Military Cemetary, Mont St.Eloi, France. He had been born in Stow and was the son of William and Jane Doig, Kirkclaugh, Gatehouse-of-Fleet, Kirkcubrightshire. Before enlisting in November …
Private Charles Chisholm, 2nd Battalion, Gordon Highlanders. He was killed in action on 25th September 1915 aged 22 on the first day of the Battle of Loos and is commemorated on the Loos Memorial, Dud Corner, Loos, France. He was the son of James and Jessie Chisholm of ” Galabank”, Stow. Before enlisting he had …
Flight Sergeant Robert Montgomery, Royal Australian Air Force. He died on Service on 11th November 1940, aged 28. He had been born in Edinburgh and was the son of Charles and Swannie Lena Montgomery of Ferniehurst, Stow and Edinburgh and is buried in Williamstown General Cemetery, Victoria, Australia. ( The C.W.G.C. records his Rank as …
Second Lieutenant Adam Thorburn Brown, 1st Lothian and Border Yeomanry, Royal Armoured Corps. He was killed in action in France on 5th June 1940, aged 36 and is commemorated on the Dunkirk Memorial. He was the son of Adam and Agnes Thorburn Brown and the husband of Elizabeth Ann Thorburn Brown of Gullane. He was …
Private Isabella McRobert Oliver, Auxiliary Territorial Force. She was killed on Service on 28th May 1944. aged 19. She was the daughter of William and Esther Oliver of Lockerbie and is buried in Stow Cemetery, Stow, Scottish Borders. She had been working in a camp set up for French refugees near Worthing when it was …
Private Thomas Hardie, 1st Battalion, Kings Own Scottish Borderers. He was killed in action in France on 1st July 1916 on the first day of the Battle of the Somme, aged 35 and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France. He had been born in Stow and was the son of Thomas and Beatrice …
Private James Brydon, 46th ( South Saskatchewan ) Battalion, Canadian Infantry. He was killed in action in France, aged 34, on 10th April 1917 during the Battle of Arras and is commemorated on the Vimy Memorial, France. He was born in Allanshaws, Ladhope, Roxburghshire and was the son of Elizabeth and the late Robert Brydon …
Signalman Robert Allan, 5th Searchlight Brigade Signals, Royal Corps of Signals. He died in France between 28th May and 2nd June 1940, aged 24 during the fighting around and the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force from Dunkirk, France. He had been born at Ashiestiel, Caddonfoot, Selkirkshire and was the son of Elizabeth Turnbull of, …
Sergeant Archibald Robertson Wood, 1st/4th ( Border ) Battalion, Kings Own Scottish Borderers. He died from dysentery in hospital in Smyrna on Service on 29th October 1918 after he had been released as a Prisoner of War and is buried in Baghdad ( North Gate ) War Cemetery, Iraq. He had been wounded and captured …
Private Kenneth Cameron Wood, 1st/4th ( Border ) Battalion, Kings Own Scottish Borderers. He was killed in action at Gallipoli on 12th July 1915, aged 20, during the ” Charge ” on the Turkish trenches at Achi Baba Nullah. He had been born in Galashiels and was the son of Mr and Mrs William Wood …
