Private, Canadians - Not on CWGC or the National Archives of Canada web sites

Sergeant, Earl of Chester's Yeomanry probably John Charles Finlayson, Lance Corporal S/22789, 5th Battalion, Cameron Highlanders. Died 12th march 1917. Aged 37. Born at Bowdon, Cheshire. Son of James Henry and Annie Ambler, of Kirkcudbright. Buried in FAUBOURG D'AMIENS CEMETERY, ARRAS, Pas de Calais, France. Plot II. Row G. Grave 1.

Lance Sergeant 9763, 2nd Battalion, Gordon Highlanders. Died 31st Oxtober 1914. Aged 27. Son of Agnes Andrew, of 27, Union St., Kirkcudbright, and the late William Andrew. Buried in HARLEBEKE NEW BRITISH CEMETERY, Harelbeke, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Plot XVI. Row A. Grave 3.

Private 17389, 2nd Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers. Died 30th April 1915. Aged 23. Son of Robert and Janet Beattie, of Rose Cottage, Tongland Village, Kirkcudbright. Buried in DIVISIONAL COLLECTING POST CEMETERY AND EXTENSION, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Plot II. Row C. Grave 21.

Lieutenant, 2nd South Midlands Briagde, Royal Field Artillery - cannot locate on CWGC

Private 65106, 24th Battalion, Canadian Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment). Died 29th April 1916. Born 18th July 1875 at Stranrair. Next of kin Thomas Branney (brother). Plasterer by trade. Unmarried. Previously served with the Galloway Rifles. Enlisted and passed fit 26th October 1914 at Montreal, Canada aged 39 years 5 months. Height 5 feet 3 inches, girth 36 inches, complexion fair, eyes blue, hair dark brown (sparse), religion Roman Catholic. Buried in VOORMEZEELE ENCLOSURES No. 1 and No. 2, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Plot I. Row D. Grave 2. National Archives of Canada Accession reference: RG 150, Accession 1992-93/166, Box 1018 - 31

Ordinary Seaman J/46014, HMS Black Prince, Royal Navy. Died at the Battle of Jutland 31st May 1916. Aged 22. Son of James and Annie Burgoyne, of 75, High St., Kirkcudbright. No known grave. Commemorated on PLYMOUTH NAVAL MEMORIAL, Devon, Panel 12.

Note: HMS Black Prince was a Duke of Edinburgh class armoured cruisers built at Thames Iron Works, laid down February 1903, completed March 1906. Cost circa £1,150,000. Length 480 feet pp 505 feet 6 inches overall, beam 73 feet 6 inches, draught 26 feet, displacement 13,550 tons load. Propelled by2 shaft triple expansion engines, 23,000 ihp, 23 knots. During the First World War she was with the 1st Cruiser Squadron Mediterranean Fleet. From August 1914 she was involved in the hunt for SMS Goeben and Breslau and in the same month captured a German merchant ship in the Red Sea. In November 1914 she was in Gibraltar then from December 1914 onwards she was with the 1st Cruiser Squadron Grand Fleet. On 31st May she was involved in the Battle of Jutland during which, on 1st June 1916, she was sunk.

Private 29860, 6th Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers. Died 3rd May 1917. No known grave. Commemorated on ARRAS MEMORIAL, Pas de Calais, France. Bay 6.

Private, King's Own Scottish Borderers

Private 2088, 1st/7th Battalion, Cameronians (Scottish Rifles). Died 28th June 1915. Aged 23. Son of David and Mary Clark, of 19, Union St., Kirkcudbright. Buried in TWELVE TREE COPSE CEMETERY, Turkey. Special memorial B. 6.

Note: There are now 3,360 First World War servicemen buried or commemorated in the cemetery. 2,226 of the burials are unidentified but special memorials commemorate many casualties known or believed to be buried among them, including 142 officers and men of the 1st Essex who died on 6 August 1915, and 47 of the 1st/7th Scottish Rifles killed on 28 June.

Major, 8th Battalion attached 1st/7th Battalion, Highland Light Infantry. Died 29th June 1915. No known grave. Commemorated on HELLES MEMORIAL, Turkey. Panel 173 to 177.

Private 12039, 4th Battalion, Manchester Regiment. Died 10th October 1914. ged 24. Son of David and Mary Clark, of 19, Union St., Kirkcudbright. Buried in North part of the Old ground in ST. CUTHBERT OLD CHURCHYARD, KIRKCUDBRIGHT, Kirkcudbrightshire.

Lance Corporal, Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) probably William Clement, Private 155, 1st Battalion, Black Watch (Royal Highlanders). Died 8th September 1914. Aged 28. Son of the late David and Annie Clement. Buried in SABLONNIERES NEW COMMUNAL CEMETERY, Seine-et-Marne, France. Grave 5.

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Private 23070, 2nd Battalion, Royal Scots Fusiliers. Died 30th July 1916. No known grave. Commemorated on THIEPVAL MEMORIAL, Somme, France. Pier and Face 3 C.

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Private 17666, 4th Battalion, Royal Scots Fusiliers. Died 3rd December 1918. Commemorated in ISLINGTON CEMETERY, Middlesex. Screen Wall. M. 20775. Note: Islington Cemetery contains 344 First World War graves and 265 from the Second World War, all scattered throughout the cemetery. A screen wall in the western part bears the names of those whose graves could not be marked individually.

Private 71253, 27th Battalion, Canadian Infantry (Manitoba Regiment). Died 15th September 1916. Born 25th January 1876 in Kirkcumbright. Brother of William White. Occupation Bank Clerk. Unmarried. Service with the 79th Cameron Highlanders of Canada (Militia) at time of enlistment. Enlisted and passed fit 25th October 1914 at Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, aged 38 years 10 months, height 5 feet 8½ inches, girth 40 inches, complexion dark, eyes blue, hair dark, religion Presbyterian. (His papers incorrectly have him making the oath as William White Douglas, his brother). Buried in COURCELETTE BRITISH CEMETERY, Somme, France. Plot II. Row A. Grave 13. National Archives of Canada Accession Reference: RG 150, Accession 1992-93/166, Box 2623 - 55

? Boy, HMS Midway.

Private, King's Own Scottish Borderers

Private, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment

Driver, Royal Field Artillery

Private, West Yorkshire Regiment

Gunner, Royal Field Artillery

Private, Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders

Private, Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders

Private, King's Own Scottish Borderers

Private, Seaforth Highlanders

Private, King's Own Scottish Borderers

Driver, Motorised Transportation, Royal Army Service Corps

Private, Cameron Highlanders.

Sergeant, King's African Rifles

Private, Royal Scots Fusiliers

Private, 6th Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers

Trooper, Ayrshire yeomanry

Private, 1st/5th Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers

Private, Black Watch

Trooper, 5th A Light Horse

Private, Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders

Private, King's Own Scottish Borderers

Private, 7th Battalion, Black Watch

Private, 2nd Battalion, Royal Scots Fusiliers

Private, Seaforth Highlanders

Private, Royal Scots Fusiliers

Private, Royal Scots Fusiliers

Private, 7th/8th Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers

Sergeant, 1st Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers.

Corporal, 1st Battalion, King;s Own Scottish Borderers

Private, New Zealand Contingent

Private, King's Own Scottish Borderers

Private, Border Regiment

Private, A.I.F.

Private, Seaforth Highlanders

Captain, 5th Battalion, Cameronians (Scottish Rifles).

Private, Cameronians (Scottish Rifles).

Engineer, H.M.T. Curaco

Private, King's Own Scottish Borderers

Private, 21st Battalion, London Regiment

Private, 8th Battalion, Royal Scots Fusiliers

Private, King's Own Scottish Borderers

Sergeant, Royal Scots. Awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal (D.C.M.) and Military Medal (M.M.).

Private, Royal Army medical Corps

Private, Canadians

Private, 6th Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers

Private, Canadians

Lance Corporal, 5th Battalion, Scots Guards.

Private, 12th Battalion, Royal Scots.

Captain, Liverpool Scottish

Corporal, 178th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery.

Sergeant, Black Watch

A.I.F.

Corporal, Royal Scots Fusiliers.

Private, Seaforth Highlanders

Corporal, Highland Light Infantry

Lieutenant, 1st/6th King's (Liverpool Regiment). Awarded the Miltitary Cross (M.C.) and the Distinguished Conduct Medal (D.C.M.).

Lance Corporal, Highland Light Infantry

Private, Royal Scots Fusiliers

Second Lieutenant, 7th Dragoon Guards.

Private, 2nd Battalion, Manchester Regiment.

Private, King's Own Scottish Borderers

Trooper, Lanarkshire Yeomanry

Private, King's Own Scottish Borderers

Private, 33rd Battalion, A.I.F.

Sapper, 7th/7th Company Railway Troops, Royal Engineers.

Sergeant, 24th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers

Private, King's Own Scottish Borderers

Private, Cameron Highlanders.

Sergeant-Major, Duke of Wellington's Regiment

Private, Canadians

Private, Scots Guards

TO THE GLORIOUS DEAD
1939-1945

Signalman, Royal Corps of Signals

Flight Sergeant, 77 Squadron, Royal Air Force.

Sergeant/Aircraftman, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

Lance Corporal, Cameron Highlanders

Private, Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders

Staff Sergeant, Royal Army Service Corps.

Sergeant, Royal AIr Force

Corporal, ????

Corporal, King's Own Scottish Borderers

Signalman, Royal Corps of Signals.

Lance Sergeant, 77 Field Regiment, Royal Artillery

Gunner, Royal Artillery

Stoker, HMS Exmoor, Royal NAvy

Lieutenant, 1st Battalion, Parachute Squadron, Royal Engineers.

Gunner, Anti-Aircraft, Royal Artillery.

Flight Sergeant, Royal Air Force

Corporal, Royal Air Force

Gunner, Royal Artillery

Fliet Lieutenant, 156 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

Able Seaman, H.M.T. Kelt, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve

Corporal, Seaforth Highlanders

Pay. Lieutenant, H.M.S. Ark Royal, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve

Warrant Officer 1st Class, Royal Engineers

Gunner, 172 Field Regiment, Royal Artillery.

W/Sergeant, Royal Armoured Corps

Ordinary Seaman, HMS Hood, Royal Navy

Corporal, Royal Scots Fusiliers

Sergeant, 619 Operation Squadron, Royal Air Force

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