EAST LOTHIAN WORLD WAR WAR 1 MEMORIAL DATABASE (Names of soldiers on the various WW1 war memorial in all the parishes/wards in East Lothian) TOWN / VILLAGE LOCATION INAUGURATION SURNAME FORENAME RANK REGIMENT IMAGE DEATH DATE COURIER MU NEWS MEDAL GRAVE/MEMORIAL SITE NOTES Private Royal Scots Fusiliers 04/01/1918 No entry Tyne Cot Memorial, Parish Aberlady 12/06/1921 2nd Battalion Belgium Church Alexander James 15/12/1917 Lance Sergeant Royal Scots 12th 13/10/1916 No entry Loos Memorial, France Bird James Battalion 24/09/1915 Lance Corporal Scottish Rifles 10th 12/11/1915 No entry Loos Memorial, France Bird Thomas Battalion 25/09/1915 Private Royal Scots 12th 01/09/1916 No entry Thiepval Memorial, Brims William Macdonald Battalion 17/07/1916 Belgium Dunbar connection Captain Royal No entry No entry Jerusalem Memorial, Israel Gloucestershire & Palestine Charteris Hugo Francis Hussars 23/04/1916 Lord Elcho 2nd Lieutenant Grenadier Guards No entry No entry Sailly-Labourse Communal Yvo Allan (The 1st Battalion Cemetery, France Charteris Hon.) 17/10/1915 Private Royal Scots 2nd 01/09/1916 22/09/1916 Thiepval Memorial, France Cunningham John Battalion 19/08/1916 2nd Lieutenant Royal Field Artillery 18/10/1918 No entry DC Potijze Burial Ground 153rd Brigade Cemetery, Belgium Dewar Robert Johnman 05/10/1918 Lieutenant Royal Scots 4th 21/12/1917 No entry MC Jerusalem Memorial, Israel Dalgleish William Battalion 12/11/1917 & Palestine Lieutenant Royal Scots 12th 18/05/1917 No entry Arras Memorial, France Eeles Charles Battalion 01/05/1917 Private Tank Corps 1st 11/10/1918 No entry Vis-en-Artois Memorial, Glasgow Stanley Battalion 29/09/1918 France Private Royal Scots 1st/4th 14/12/1917 No entry Alexandria (Hadra) War (Reserve) Battalion Memorial Cemetery, Egypt Guy John Cowan 01/12/1917 Private Royal Scots 9th 04/01/1918 No entry Red Cross Corner Battalion Cemetery, Beugny, France Athelstaneford Hannay Hugh 23/12/1917 connection Lieutenant Colonel Grenadier Guards 10/05/1918 No entry MC Ramscappelle Road, France 1st Battalion Hope George Everard 10/10/1917 Private Machine Gun Corps 13/09/1918 No entry Cambrai East Military (Infantry) 47th Cemetery, France Jack David Battalion 23/03/1918 Prestonkirk connection Lance Corporal Royal Fusiliers 23rd 25/08/1916 No entry Dive Copse British Battalion Cemetery, Sailly-le-Sec, France Sportsmen's Battalion; McPhail Peter 02/08/1916 gamekeeper at Gosford McIntosh J Unknown Black Watch Unknown No entry No entry Unknown Gunner Royal Field Artillery 17/05/1918 No entry Minster (Thanet) Cemetery, transf. to Labour Kent, England Murray James Corps 05/04/1918 Page 1 of 135 EAST LOTHIAN WORLD WAR WAR 1 MEMORIAL DATABASE (Names of soldiers on the various WW1 war memorial in all the parishes/wards in East Lothian) Private Argyll & Sutherland 10/11/1916 No entry Thiepval Memorial, France Highlanders 10th Battalion Peffers John 12/10/1916 Private Royal Scots 05/07/1918 No entry Arras Memorial, France Ritchie Thomas 28/04/1917 2nd Lieutenant Royal Scot 16th 04/01/1918 No entry Wancourt British Cemetery, Scarlett Robert Stubbs Battalion 20/12/1917 France Private Argyll & Sutherland 29/01/1915 No entry Ploegsteert Memorial, Highlanders 2nd Belgium Battalion Sibbald John 10/11/1914 Haddington connection Private Gordon Highlanders 30/11/1917 No entry Tyne Cot Memorial, 1st Battalion Belgium Sinclair James Taylor 26/09/1917 Captain Royal Field Artillery No entry No entry Edinburgh (Rosebank) Taylor William Currie 07/11/1918 Cemetery, Scotland Private Royal Scots 1st/9th 04/05/1917 No entry Roclincourt Valley Battalion Cemetery, France Templeton John 09/04/1917 Sergeant Argyll & Sutherland 03/08/1917 No entry Ypres Town Cemetery Highlanders 11th Extension, Belgium Battalion 09- Wilson James 10/07/1917 Athelstane- Parish Royal Scots 15th No entry ford Church 26/09/1920 Barrie William Private Battalion Yes 26/08/1917 26/07/1918 Thiepval Memorial, France Royal Scots 2nd No entry Binnie Alexander Private Battalion Yes 13/11/1916 No entry Thiepval Memorial, France Highland Light No entry Infantry 12th Martinsart British Brown John Lieutenant Battalion 25/03/1918 05/04/1918 Cemetery, France Combe William Private Unknown Unknown No entry No entry Unknown Black Watch 7th 20 or No entry Dempster John Sergeant Battalion 24/07/1918 23/08/1918 MM Soissons Memorial, France No entry Black Watch 1st/7th Sevre Road Cemetery, Dempster William Lance Corporal Battalion 30/07/1916 11/08/1916 France Black Watch 9th No entry Battalion; Royal Findlay Alexander Private Highlanders 25/09/1915 22/09/1916 Loos Memorial, France Royal Scots 2nd No entry Pernes British Cemetery, Fletcher William Private Battalion 23/05/1918 31/05/1918 France No entry Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Fulton James Corporal/Able Seaman (Hawke Battalion) 25/03/1918 26/04/1918 Arras Memorial, France Fulton Robert Unknown Unknown Unknown No entry No entry Unknown Page 2 of 135 EAST LOTHIAN WORLD WAR WAR 1 MEMORIAL DATABASE (Names of soldiers on the various WW1 war memorial in all the parishes/wards in East Lothian) No entry Gordon Highlanders "B" Company 1st Ypres (Menin Gate) Gray William Sergeant Battalion 25/09/1915 08/10/1915 Memorial, Belgium Private Royal Scots 9th 04/01/1918 No entry Red Cross Corner Battalion Cemetery, Beugny, France Hannay Hugh 23/12/1917 Aberlady connection Black Watch 9th No entry Hannay John Private Battalion 25/09/1915 05/11/1915 Loos Memorial, France Cameron No entry Highlanders 1st Jack Charles Private Battalion 09/10/1914 11/12/1914 Vendresse Church, France Black Watch 8th No entry Tyne Cot Memorial, Logan William Private Battalion 12/10/1917 No entry MM Belgium Pencaitland connection Royal Garrison No entry Artillery 22nd Topographical Tyne Cot Memorial, Logan William Allen Gunner Company 13/04/1918 03/05/1918 Belgium No entry Royal Marine Artillery 4th R.M. Dover (St. James's) Gilmerton/Edinburgh Mann William Andrew Gunner Battalion 23/04/1918 03/05/1918 Cemetery, Kent, England connection No entry Argyll & Sutherland London Cemetery & Highlanders 11th extension, Longueval, Marshall Thomas Private Battalion 01/09/1916 06/10/1916 France Royal Scots 11th No entry McGovern John Private Battalion 23/03/1918 20/06/1919 Pozieres Memorial, France Prestonkirk connection Melrose Andrew Unknown Unknown Unknown No entry No entry Unknown Highland Light No entry Infantry "B" Loos Memorial, France Company 12th Btwn 25- Pow George Sergeant Battalion Yes 26/09/1915 17/12/1915 Highland Light No entry Infantry 14th Battalion; attd. 101st Trench Wytschaete Military Ritchie James Private Mortar Battery 28/09/1918 01/11/1918 Cemetery, Belgium Shattoch James Private Unknown Unknown No entry No entry Unknown No entry King's Own Scottish Borderers 2nd Ypres (Menin Gate) Tinlin John Private Battalion 18/04/1915 14/05/1915 Memorial, Belgium No entry Prestonkirk and North Cheshire Regiment Tannay British Cemetery, Berwick connections; Wight John S Private 1st Battalion 01/08/1918 16/08/1918 Thiennes, France mentioned in Despatches Page 3 of 135 EAST LOTHIAN WORLD WAR WAR 1 MEMORIAL DATABASE (Names of soldiers on the various WW1 war memorial in all the parishes/wards in East Lothian) Parish Royal Scots 2nd No entry Pernes British Cemetery, Bolton 12/06/1921 Church Anderson Charles Private Battalion 16/04/1918 No entry France Devonshire No entry Regiment 1st Tyne Cot Memorial, Twice mentioned in Blunt Duncan Hamilton Lieutenant Colonel Battalion 03/10/1917 No entry DSO Belgium Despatches No entry Gloucester Regiment 1st Battalion; attd. 3rd Battalion Nigeria Limbe Botanical Gardens Holme Alexander Charles Lieutenant Regiment, W.A.F.F. 06/09/1914 No entry Burial Ground, Cameroon Duns connection No entry Gordon Highlanders Connection to Aberdeen 10th Ecclesmachan Cemetery, where 10th Battalion was Logan John Private Battalion/Depot 16/09/1916 No entry West Lothian formed No entry Royal Scots 1st/4th Gaza War Cemetery, Israel Lusk Robert Private Battalion 19/04/1917 13/07/1917 M.A. & Palestine Royal Scots 9th Wancourt British Cemetery, Meston John Private Battalion 28/10/1917 23/11/1917 07/12/1917 France Royal Garrison Artillery 270th Siege Lijssenthoek Military Meston Thomas George Gunner Battalion 02/07/1917 13/07/1917 No entry Cemetery, Belgium Tank Corps 2nd Doullens Communal Sharp James William Private Battalion 25/03/1918 05/04/1918 No entry Cemetery Extension No. 1 King's Own Scottish Borderes 1st/5th Kantara War Memorial Watt Peter William Lance Corporal Battalion 16/01/1917 02/02/1917 No entry Cemetery, Egypt East Royal Naval Reserve Cockenzie Lorimer 23/04/1922 HMS "Clan Portsmouth Naval Place Baillie Archibald Seaman McNaughton" 03/02/1915 No entry No entry Memorial, England Royal Naval Reserve HM Trawler Portsmouth Naval Bird John Harkness Skipper "Helgian" 06/09/1917 20/04/1917 No entry Memorial, England Black Watch 1st Dud Corner Cemetery, Blackley Robert Lance Corporal Battalion 25/09/1915 22/10/1915 No entry Loos, France Prestonpans New Royal Naval Reserve Cemetery, East Lothian, Blaikie George Deck Hand HMS "Vivid" 13/10/1918 18/10/1918 No entry Scotland Queant Communal Buchanan Daniel Gunner Royal Field Artillery 03/10/1918 No entry No entry Cemetery British Extension Page 4 of 135 EAST LOTHIAN WORLD WAR WAR 1 MEMORIAL DATABASE (Names of soldiers on the various WW1 war memorial in all the parishes/wards in East Lothian) Royal Scots 1st/8th Marfaux British Cemetery, Cunningham John D Private Battalion 21/07/1918 23/08/1918 No entry France Black Watch 1st Curtiss Albert Private Battalion 09/05/1915 No entry No entry Le Touret Memorial, France Templeux-Le-Guerard