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Index of 9th Royal Scots Index of the 9th Royal Scots (E-K) List of personnel, 9th Battalion Royal Scots, 1900-1923 Compiled by Neill Gilhooley Index of the 9th Royal Scots (E-K) ............................................................................................. 1 Introduction ............................................................................................................................ 1 Notes on the Index ................................................................................................................. 1 Sources ................................................................................................................................... 2 Version History ...................................................................................................................... 5 Index of Personnel ................................................................................................................. 5 END ................................................................................................................................... 337 Introduction This list of personnel has been compiled whilst researching A history of the 9th Battalion Royal Scots, and forms an index of various sources. Users are in all cases directed to the source information. I hope it will be of some use to those researching family members. Please be aware that there is considerable room for error in a list such as this, and sincere apologies are expressed for any errors that may be found. Similarly, this index points at a lot of other people’s hard work, and their publications should always be viewed to see the information in its original form. If you wish something deleted, or would like an attribution changed, please contact me. Corrections, clarifications and additions are all welcome to [email protected] Neill Gilhooley, 2018 Published at https://neillgilhooley.com/9th-royal-scots/index/ Notes on the Index 1. Names are for the 9th Bn Royal Scots including 2/9th and 3/9th, attached etc. 2. The left hand column of the list contains an alphabetical list of surnames and information. The right hand column provides a reference, listed below under “Sources,” or “-” where a direct weblink or source is provided in the main text box 3. Names therefore often appear more than once, from different sources. These may not always be grouped together, for example where the surname is followed by either initials or a full forename the same man may appear on different pages. Different spellings are also evident, some surnames are quoted single- or double-barrelled, such as Haddon or Ross Haddon, and with and without a hyphen, like Henderson Hamilton. Other variations can be found with names such as McEwen and MacEwen, or de Berry. To find a piece of text, press Ctrl and F to open a search box 4. Some of the original hand written text or print is not clear so errors may have been introduced by eye or by scanning to text, in all instances the reader is directed to the original and to the image rather than the scanned text version 5. Speculative connections are preceded by “?” Page 1 of 337 E-K Oct 2018 Ver 5 Index of 9th Royal Scots Sources References in the list in the right hand column have sources listed here: Reference Source - A direct weblink or source should be provided in the main text box ? This individual has a question relating to them, the source should be provided in the main text box Medal Roll, Rolls of Individuals entitled to the Victory Medal and/or British War Medal 0629 Piece 0629: Royal Scots, from No.8 to 5416 (537 records) 0630 Piece 0630 from 5432 to 13875 (21 records) 0631 Piece 0631 from 14582 to 19865 (42 records) 0632 Piece 0632 from 19896 to 27937 (35 records) 0633 Piece 0633 from 29713 to 37589 (48 records) 0634 Piece 0634 from 38220 to 43105 (108 records) 0635 Piece 0635 from 43125 to 50915 (331 records) 0636 Piece 0636 from 51203 to 63332 (430 records) 0637 Piece 0637 from 70062 to 250441 (115 records) 0638 Piece 0638 from 250531 to 300797 (123 records) 0639 Piece 0639 from 300849 to 335668 (308 records) 0640 Piece 0640 from 335680 to 376585 (1905 records) Includes the main 6-digit block for 9th RS 0641 Supp. Piece 0641 Supp. with 4-, 5- and 6-digit numbers (195 records) Filed on ancestry.co.uk under ‘Royal Scots Royal Marines Labour Corps’ Total: 4198 records Note the ancestry.co.uk numbers and cover numbers agree, but the volume number appended within runs 0628-0640 (minus 1) The vast majority of these details have been transcribed by Pauline Gilhooley. 2610 Medal Roll 1915 Star, Piece 2610, mis-filed on ancestry.co.uk under Coldstream Guards. Order: surname, initials, rank, regimental number, date of disembarkation, theatre, remarks. Note that for theatre (1) is Western Front/France, and subsequently (1a) means France and Belgium. 1186 records. Transcribed by Pauline Gilhooley CWGC Commonwealth War Graves Commission http://www.cwgc.org/ list for those with connection to 9th presented as surname, forename(s), initials, rank, service number, unit, age, date of death, country, additional information. See the database for cemetery and grave reference. E Ewing, Major John, MC, “The Royal Scots, 1914-1919”, Oliver and Boyd, 1925 E-P E-P Photograph of the battalion’s officers at the end of volume 2 for July 1914 (* listed but absent from photograph). Two Enlistment Books of the Regimental Roll, held at Edinburgh Castle, courtesy Tom Gordon. Transcribed by Pauline Gilhooley. EB1 EB1 Enlistment Book 1 Index - Numbers 2001 to 3195 EB2 EB2 Enlistment Book 2 Index - Numbers 3196 to 5042 EBD EBD Details (partial record) - Name/ Regimental Number/ Residence/ Battery or Company/ Attestation – Date - Age/ Discharge or becoming Page 2 of 337 E-K Oct 2018 Ver 5 Index of 9th Royal Scots non-effective – date – place – cause/ (including additional information recorded at a later date) Notes: two men have been given number 3032. A number of records and pages are not transcribable from the photographed pages. Photos F Ferguson, James, “Record of the 9th (Volunteer) battalion (Highlanders), the Royal Scots; or, The raising of a volunteer regiment and its conversion into a full-strength battalion of the Territorial Force, 1900-1909.”, W. & A.K. Johnston, Edinburgh, 1909 F1901 As well as names from the main text, includes lists of officers in 1901 FSA (F1901), the South Africa (FSA) roll and the Colour Party (FCP) of FCP 1909. LS1 Draft no. 1 from Reserve (2/9th) to Service (1/9th) Bn 12th Dec 1914 (50 records) LS2 Draft no. 2 to 1/9th on 30th Jan 1915, leaving Kilmarnock on that day (81 records) LS3 Draft no. 3 to 1/9th on 13th Feb 1915, leaving Kilmarnock on that day (33 records) LS4 Draft no. 4 to 1/9th on 27th March 1915 (69 records) LS5 Draft no. 5 from 2/9th to 3/9th from Peebles, with a view to joining a draft to 1/9th, 27th August 1915 (18 records) LS6 Draft no. 6 from 2/9th to 3/9th with effect 11th November 1915, from Selkirk (72 records) LS7 Draft no. 7 leaving 2/9th for 1/9th Bn August 1916. Note this was the fifth draft to the service Bn (1/9th). 315 records. Note a number of these men seem to have been transferred to RSF but few refer to 9RS as previous unit. See Medal Roll RSF p.~211/333 Those without rank appended were Privates. Total records = 638 The Leather Sporran, Vol 1, No 1, 1st Sept 1916. B.C. Holmer [IWM] refers to a draft from 3/9th on 9th Oct 15, strength 109. NBW Particular thanks are owed to John Duncan, his website ‘Newbattle at War’ has a fine collection of photos, including photos of the Ninth, and a video of past and present members of the regiment marching in Edinburgh in 1920. Visit http://www.newbattleatwar.com/ 2/9S 2/9S See the group photograph of the 2/9th Sergeants, hand-dated 29th May 1915. Some on the centreline are obscured. These can be seen in the Edinburgh Evening Dispatch, 29/5/15. There are 43 names and 44 images, so the front row have not had thumbnail images attached. It might be assumed Sergeant-Major Steven is seated in the middle, meaning the lad on the left is unknown. NBW-S NBW-S John Duncan’s list from regiment scrap book, listing those whose unit specifies 9th, see NBW and GWF RSC The Royal Scots Club, Roll of Members 1933/4 Individuals are recorded as 9th Royal Scots, unless otherwise specified (e.g. 2/9th). Membership number shown in brackets. Transcribed by Pauline Gilhooley. The 1933/4 is the first book in the series, with 480 records. The last book, 1969, is also listed (under ‘-’), by which time there are 77 records. SD Soldiers Died in the Great War 1914-19, Part 6 The Royal Scots, first published 1921. My thanks to Simon Fielding, GWF. Page 3 of 337 E-K Oct 2018 Ver 5 Index of 9th Royal Scots SURNAME, Christian Name(s), Born, Enlisted, (Residence), Number, RANK, Cause, Place, Date of Death, ADDITIONAL TEXT, Regiment, Battalion [996 records, these records seem to have OCR errors] SW Soldier’s Wills on Scotlands People www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk Listed as surname, forename, rank, number, date of death, cause of death, theatre. Two men appear without surname in the list, but from the CWGC list can be assumed to be Martin McLaughlan and Peter McGhie. SWB Silver War Badge record from ancestry.co.uk. A search on “Discharge Unit: 9 R. Scots” (exact) gives 169 returns. Suspiciously 106 of these are listed in a new field of ‘regiment’ as Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) and these have been marked with [*]. The two regiments can be confused if their initials are transposed. Original source quoted as War Office and Air Ministry: Service Medal and Award Rolls, First World War. Silver War Badge. RG WO 329, 2958–3255. The National Archives TNA The National Archives http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ Results of search on 9th Royal Scots. Note these results are almost entirely from A-G of the alphabet. Thanks to Guy Grannum at TNA for confirming that this is the full available listing, he also notes that a search on Royal Scots produces over 97,000 records.