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Ian M
Joined: 02 Dec 2007 Posts: 47 Location: St.Boswells
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Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2008 3:05 pm Post subject: Major Jack Elliot, M.C., Lauder Old Parish Church |
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spoons
Joined: 09 Jan 2007 Posts: 4991 Location: St John's Town of Dalry
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Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2008 9:13 pm Post subject: |
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a twenty four year old major |
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Adam Brown Curator
Joined: 14 Dec 2006 Posts: 7312 Location: Edinburgh (From Sutherland)
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Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2008 9:58 pm Post subject: |
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Major Elliot is also listed on the Lauder Old Parish Church War Memorial, theLauder War Memorial and the Westruther War Memorial where he is listed as being of Wedderlie. I can't find that on an OS map but Thirlestane is about half way between Lauder and Westruther.
ELLIOT, JACK
Rank: Major
Regiment/Service: King's Own Scottish Borderers
Unit Text: 6th Bn.
Age: 24
Date of Death: 18/02/1945
Service No: 88447
Awards: M C
Additional information: Son of Thomas and Elizabeth Louisa Smithson Elliot, of Thirlestane, Berwickshire.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: 12. F. 2.
Cemetery: RHEINBERG WAR CEMETERY |
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Adam Brown Curator
Joined: 14 Dec 2006 Posts: 7312 Location: Edinburgh (From Sutherland)
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Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2008 10:12 pm Post subject: |
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Note the badge of the KOSB at the top. The castles (Edinburgh castle) from that Badge at the two bottom corners and the 15th (Scottish) Division Lion Rampant inignia at the top corners.
6th KOSB was in 44th (Lowland) Infantry Brigade of 15th (Scottish) Division throughout the Second World War.
A history of the 6th Bn in the war was published in 1946. It has a chapter on the attach on Goch. Here are the details.
Title: The 6th (Border) Battalion The King's Own Scottish Borderers, 1939-1945
Author: Capt. J.R.P. Baggaley (Capt. Baggaley, MC, served as Intelligence Officer of the 6th Bn KOSB from Dec. 1939 to Dec. 1945)
Foreword: Lt.-Col. C.W.P. Richardson (6th KOSB CO July '44 to end of war)
Published: Berwick-on-Tweed, 6th Battalion The King's Own Scottish Borderers, 1946
Printed Berwick-on-Tweed : Martin's Printing Works Ltd.
Collation: 115 pages; 7 pages of portrait photographs, 8 fold out maps; 21 x 14 cm
Appendix: honours & awards |
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Ian M
Joined: 02 Dec 2007 Posts: 47 Location: St.Boswells
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Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2008 11:11 am Post subject: Major Jack Elliot, M.C. |
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Wedderlie.
O.S. Kelso - Sheet 74.
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stuartn
Joined: 13 Dec 2016 Posts: 2551
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Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2018 12:04 pm Post subject: WMR (ex UKNIWM) report |
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WMR 62469 |
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Kenneth Morrison
Joined: 29 Sep 2008 Posts: 7779 Location: Rockcliffe Dalbeattie
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Posted: Mon Feb 22, 2021 4:30 pm Post subject: |
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Named on the Lauder Parish War Memorial as :
JOHN ELLIOT, M.C. MAJ. K.O.S.B.
Jack Elliot, Military Cross – age 24 – Major (88447) 6th Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers.
Jack was educated at the Loretto School in Musselburgh, where he was a member of the Officer Training Corps, until December 1938. He was commissioned in the Territorial KOSB in May 1939 and mobilised at the outbreak of war. He landed with the 6th KOSB at Normandy in June 1944 and was wounded at Le Haut de Bosq, south-west of Caen. For his actions he was awarded a M.C. Jack was killed while leading his men during the attack on the German town of Goch. He was buried at Udem but was re-interred at Rheinberg in July 1946.
Born 1921 in Edinburgh. Son of Thomas and Elizabeth Louisa Smithson (Lindsay) Elliot of Wedderlie and of Thirlestane, Westruther, Berwickshire.
Killed in Action on 18 February 1945 and buried in Rheinberg War Cemetery, Germany.
Also named on an individual memorial in Lauder Parish Church, on the church memorial, on the Westruther Parish War Memorial and on the Loretto School memorial. _________________ Ken |
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