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IanA
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Posted: Fri Feb 23, 2007 7:59 pm Post subject: Pte J Waugh, Kirkhope |
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DerekR Moderator
Joined: 19 Dec 2006 Posts: 3013 Location: Hawick, Scotland
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Posted: Fri Feb 23, 2007 8:31 pm Post subject: |
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That is a very interesting and unusual plaque.
I wonder what story is behind it?
http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=330871
Sadly there are no family details on the CWGC website. _________________
Time but th' impression stronger makes, As streams their channels deeper wear. |
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Adam Brown Curator
Joined: 14 Dec 2006 Posts: 7312 Location: Edinburgh (From Sutherland)
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Posted: Sat Feb 24, 2007 1:54 pm Post subject: |
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DerekR wrote: | Sadly there are no family details on the CWGC website. |
And note that it was erected by his comrades, not his family.
Adam |
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DerekR Moderator
Joined: 19 Dec 2006 Posts: 3013 Location: Hawick, Scotland
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Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 10:14 am Post subject: |
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UKNIWM Ref: 44090 _________________
Time but th' impression stronger makes, As streams their channels deeper wear. |
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Kenneth Morrison
Joined: 29 Sep 2008 Posts: 7779 Location: Rockcliffe Dalbeattie
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James Waugh – age 30 – Private (67951) 2nd Battalion, Machine Gun Corps.
James had been a farm servant in the Lauder district of Berwickshire for several years before he enlisted. He had returned from leave to his unit in the Army of Occupation just a few days before he drowned while bathing in the Rhine at Monheim in Germany.
(Source: Jedburgh Gazette 19/9/1919 p.3 and Army Registers of Soldiers effects)
Born 1889 in Roxburgh. (Source:1901 census and GROS – Birth Register)
Son of Robert and Elizabeth (White) Waugh of Oakwood, Kirkhope. (Source: Jedburgh Gazette 19/9/1919 p.3)
Died on Service – 3 September 1919.
Commonwealth War Grave – Cologne Southern Cemetery, Germany. _________________ Ken |
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