KIRKWALL WAR MEMORIAL

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1 KIRKWALL WAR MEMORIAL Details of the World War dead listed on the Kirkwall War Memorial, with corrections, full first names, unit numbers, ships, date of death and age then added: Great War Pte. KENNETH ALEXANDER 8th Seaforths, 27 th August 1917, age 29. Pte. EDWIN I. BARNETT 7th Seaforths, 8 th August 1915, age 29. Pte. JOHN W. BARRON 43rd (Manitoba) Battalion C.E.F., 21 st September 1916, age 36. Pte. JAMES W. BORWICK 5th Battalion, A.EI.F., 11 th August 1918, age 28. Pte. JOHN H. BRASS 1/4th Seaforths, 30 th October 1918, age 18. Cpl. WILLIAM BRASS Canterbury Regiment, N.Z.E.F., 25 th April-1 st May 1915, age 26. Pte. ALEXANDER BUCHAN 2nd Seaforths, 8 th August 1918, age 32. Capt. ARTHUR S. BUCHANAN R.E., 15 th February 1919, age 30. Pte. JAMES BURGESS Otago Regiment, N.Z.E.F., 15 th September 1916, age 36. Pte. JOHN W. CLOUSTON Seaforths, 1st Depot Bn., Saskatchewan Regt., 4 th April 1918, age 26. Lieut. ALFRED H. COOPER R.N.R., H.M. Trawler Princess Mary, 13 th March 1918, age 33. Pte. JAMES COOPER 1st Royal Scots, 1 st October 1916, age 22. Pte. JAMES COOPER Auckland Regiment, N.Z.E.F., 24 th June 1915, age 35. L/Cpl. JOHN W. COOPER 16th Royal Scots, 22 nd October 1917, age 33. Rfmn. W. CORNER 8th London Regiment (P.O. Rifles), 26 th May 1916, age 20. Cpl. JAMES CORSE 2nd Pioneer Infantry, U.S A.E.F., 21 st September 1918, age 29. Capt. GORDON COWPER 9th Gordons, 2 nd February 1919, age 34. Surgeon WILLIAM P. COWPER R.N., H.M.S. Valiant, 1 st February 1919, age 38. Pte. WILLIAM CRAIGIE Middlesex 1/5th London Regt. (Rifle Brigade), 16 th August 1917, age 34. Pte. JAMES CRAIGIE 14th London Regiment (London Scottish), 1 st July 1916, age 23. Gnr. THOMAS CUTT 118 th Siege Battery, R.G.A., 5 th July 1918, age 21. Cpl. DAVID B. DONALDSON 7th/8th K.O.S.B., 6 th August 1918, age 26. Pte. GEORGE DREVER 2nd Scots Guards, 27 th December 1914, age 32. Pte. JOHN DREVER 7th Seaforths, 10 th December 1916, age 37. Pte. THOMAS DREVER 7th Seaforths, 14 th October 1918, age 33. Cpl. JAMES DUNNET 285 th Army Troops Company, R.E., 25 th November 1918, age 27. Pte. WILLIAM I. DYCE 1/5th Royal Scots, 18 th June 1915, age 19. Gnr. GEORGE ECCLES R.M.A., H.M.S. Cyclops II, 10 th August 1918, age 39. Lieut. DAVID A. FLETT 6th H.L.I., 5 th May 1921, age 44. 2/Lieut. FREDERICK FLETT 1st Seaforths, 9 th March 1918, age 29. Gnr. GEORGE FOUBISTER 230 th Siege Battery, R.G.A., 22 nd September 1918, age 24. C.P.O. ADAM FRISKEN R.N., H.M.S. Swiftsure, 10 th February 1916, age 39. Pte. WILLIAM FRISKEN 6th K.O.S.B., 16 th February 1917, age 29.

2 Cpl. DAVID GORDON 145 th Heavy Battery, R.G.A., 8 th November 1917, age 29. L/Cpl. ALBERT GULLION 1st Seaforths, 14 th March 1920, age 20. Pte. WILLIAM D. GUNN Seaforths, 22 nd November 1918, age 35. Pte. JAMES HARCUS 1/5th Seaforths, 25 th July 1918, age 35. Seaman ROBERT HARCUS R.N.R., H.M. Trawler Touraco, 13 th September 1917, age 33. Pte. THOMAS HARCUS 1st Cameronians (Scottish Rifles), 3 rd April 1918, age 25. L/Cpl. DAVID HARROLD 16th (Manitoba) Battalion, C.E.F., 28 th January 1916, age 21. Pte. JAMES W. HARROLD 2nd Seaforths, 11 th April 1917, age 20. Pte. ROBERT HAY 1st Seaforths, 19 th July 1916, age 25. Pte. WILLIAM HAY 1/6th or 9th Seaforths, 29 th April 1918, age 20. Pte. JAMES W. HOLLAND 1st Seaforths, 9 th March 1917, age 20. Sergt. ALEX. V. HOURSTON Royal Scots 1st Bn. Special Brigade, R.E., 4 th September 1916, age 31. Pte. ARCHIBALD HOURSTON 1st Auckland Regiment, N.Z.E.F., 4 th October 1917, age 33. Lieut. DAVID W. HOURSTON 9th Cameronians (Scottish Rifles), 11 th August 1918, age 39. Pte. ANDERSON IRELAND 23rd Northumberland Fusiliers, 8 th March 1917, age 26. Pte. GEORGE H. JOHNSTON 34th Battalion, A.EI.F., 12 th October 1917, age 37. Staff-Sergt. JOHN JOHNSTON 21st Division Train, R.A.S.C., 4 th November 1918, age 34. Pte. WILLIAM P. JOHNSTON 11th Royal Scots, 27 th September 1915, age 21. 2/Lieut. THOMAS R. KIRKNESS R.A.F., 32nd Squadron, R.F.C., 18 th August 1917, age 26. Pte. GEORGE M. LAIRD 38th (Eastern Ontario) Battalion, C.E.F., 27 th October 1916, age 21. Seaman ALFRED LEARMONTH R.N.R., H.M. Trawler Capricornus, 9 th November 1918, age 19. Pte. JAMES A. LEARMONTH 7th Seaforths, 11 th October 1916, age 19. Pte. ALEXANDER LEASK 9th Seaforths, 21 st March 1918, age 29. Pte. ROBERT E. LESLIE 7th Seaforths, 21 st March 1918, age 21. Pte. WILLIAM LESLIE 2nd Royal Scots, 7 th October 1917, age 29. Pte. ALFRED LIDDLE 24th (Quebec) Battalion, C.E.F., 16 th September 1918, age 39. Pte. DAVID S. LINKLATER 9th Seaforths, 25 th September 1915, age 31. Pte. JOHN LINKLATER 40th Reinforcements, N.Z.E.F., 8 th September 1918, age 26. Pte. ROBERT LINKLATER 7th Seaforths, 29 th October 1918, age 19. Pte. EDWIN MACKAY 8th Seaforths, 9 th September 1916, age 25. Pte. JAMES MACKAY 3rd Seaforths, 11 th November 1918, age 21. L/Cpl. DAVID MANSON 4th (Central Ontario) Mounted Rifles, C.E.F., 2 nd June 1916, age 20. Pte. JOSEPH MANSON 1st Seaforths, 22 nd April 1916, age 32. Saddler HUGH MARWICK 159 th Company, 20th Division Train, R.A.S.C., 15 th August 1918, age 38. Pte. JOHN J. MARWICK 17th Royal Scots, 28 th October 1917, age 21. Pte. JOHN K. MAXWELL 1/6th Gordons, 23 rd July 1918, age 19. The Rev. GEORGE MILLAR Army C.F., attached 13th Gen. Hospital, 26 th August 1917, age 45. Pte. WILLIAM MILNE H.L.I., 15 th June 1916, age 31.

3 Drum. DONALD MORGAN 43rd (Manitoba) Battalion, C.E.F., 4 th December 1917, age 32. Pte. ROBERT MOWAT 1st Seaforths, 20 th May 1917, age 35. Pte. JOHN W. MUIR 53rd Battalion, A.EI.F., 6 th June 1917, age 26. Fireman STANLEY J. MUIR R.N.R., M.M.R., H.M. Yacht Zarefah, 8 th May 1917, age 18. Sapper ROBERT NEWLANDS jr. 173 rd Tunnelling Company, R.E., 27 th March 1917, age 20. Pte. ANDREW NICHOLSON jr. 3rd Seaforths, 4 th April 1917, age 18. Pte. ALFRED OSBORNE 7th Seaforths, 11 th April 1918, age 20. Pte. JAMES REID Gordons 7th (Brit. Col.) Battalion C.E.F., 22 nd September 1916, age 32. 2/Lieut. A. GARDEN ROBERTSON (Black Watch) 66th Squadron, R.F.C., 8 th June 1917, age 19. Gnr. JAMES ROBERTSON 253 rd Siege Battery, R.G.A., 21 st April 1918, age 36. Pte. WILLIAM C. ROBERTSON 7th Seaforths, 25 th April 1918, age 33. Pte. JOHN ROSIE 6th K.O.S.B., 24 th March 1918, age 19. Pte. GEORGE SANDISON 1/6th Seaforths, 9 th April 1917, age 29. Gnr. JOHN SCARTH 431 st Siege Battery, R.G.A., 15 th December 1917, age 22. Cpl. THOMAS SCOLLAY 1/4th Seaforths, 14 th April 1918, age 22. Pte. CHARLES F. SCOTT 7th Seaforths, 25 th September 1915, age 20. Asst. Paymaster DONALD M. SCOTT R.N.R., 30 th October 1920, age 29. Pte. ROBERT T. SCOTT 10th Scottish Rifles, 29 th August 1916, age 30. Pte. GEORGE S. SHEARER 1/4th Royal Scots Fusiliers, 13 th November 1917, age 33. Pte. JAMES W. SHEARER 1/5th Seaforths, 22 nd July 1918, age 21. Pte. LESLIE SHEARER 47th Battalion, C.E.F., 13 th April 1917, age 23. Pte. JAMES SIMISON 7th Seaforths, 12 th October 1916, age 20. Pte. GEORGE W. SINCLAIR 1st Seaforths, 21 st April 1917, age 29. Sapper JOHN SINCLAIR Inland Water Transport, R.E., 2 nd February 1919, age 21. Gnr. L/Smn. ROBERT SINCLAIR R.N.R., S.S. Ventmoor, 14 th February 1918, age 31. Pte. THOMAS SINCLAIR 1/4th Royal Scots, 23 rd August 1918, age 28. L/Cpl. WILLIAM J. SINCLAIR 1/6th Seaforths, 30 th March 1918, age 20. Sergt. ALEXANDER SMITH 16th (Manitoba) Battalion, C.E.F., 9 th April 1917, age 29. Driver DAVID J. SMITH R.A.S.C., attd. Indian Sappers and Miners, 4 th September 1916, age 30. L/Cpl. ROBERT M. SMITH Royal Scots Fusiliers, 6 th May 1919, age 26. Sergt. JOHN G. SPENCE 12th H.L.I., 25 th March 1918, age 26. Major ANDERSON SUTHERLAND, MC 51 st Battery/39th Brigade, R.F.A., 7 th November 1918, age 24. 2/Lieut. GOODWIN SUTHERLAND 1st Gordons, 9 th April 1917, age 20. Pte. JAMES H. SUTHERLAND 6th Camerons, 16 th September 1916, age 32. Seaman JAMES TULLOCH R.N., H.M.S. Tiger, 20 th June 1916, age 33. L/Cpl. JOHN TULLOCH 10th (Alberta) Battalion, C.E.F., 28 th April 1917, age 32. Pte. JAMES W. TULLOCK 1st Black Watch, 26 th September 1915, age 22. Pte. DICK VELZIAN 1st Royal Scots Fusiliers, 12 th April 1918, age 29.

4 Sergt. GEORGE F. VELZIAN Royal Scots, 8 th February 1916, age 29. Pte. JOHN VELZIAN 13 th Labour Company, R.A.S.C., 22 nd November 1915, age 47. Pte. JAMES VOY 16th (Manitoba) Battalion, C.E.F., 7 th March 1918, age 25. Lieut. WM. BAIKIE WATSON, MC C Battery/95th Brigade, R.F.A., 30 th September 1918, age 25. Pte. JAMES WATT 2nd Gordons, 1 st July 1916, age 19. Pte. J. DUNCAN WEBSTER 1/6th Seaforths, 23 rd March 1918, age 19. Pte. JOHN WICK 4th Pioneer Battalion, A.EI.F., 5 th April 1918, age 33. Pte. JAMES WILLEITTS 1/5th Seaforths, 9 th December 1918, age 24. Pte. STEWART WILSON 1st Royal Scots Fusiliers, 21 st July 1915, age 31. Cpl. JAMES A. WISHART 7th Camerons, 6 th May 1916, age 24. Pte. JOHN E. WORK 1/5th Seaforths, 13 th October 1918, age 18. Pte. WILLIAM WORK 2nd Seaforths, 11 th April 1917, age 19. Pte. WILLIAM J. WORK 8th Seaforths, 28 th March 1918, age 31. Pte. ALEXANDER YULE 1/5th Seaforths, 24 th September 1917, age 20. MERCANTILE MARINE. JOHN COOPER S.S. Express, 9 th February 1918, age 42. ROBERT CRAIGIE S.S. Express, 9 th February 1918, age 34. DAVID FINLAYSON S.S. Express, 17 th November 1916, age 54. GEORGE T.F. FLETT S.S. Era, 1 st May 1918, age 29. GEORGE FOULIS S.S. Express, 9 th February 1918, age 38. WILLIAM FOULIS S.S. Express, 9 th February 1918, age 36. JAMES FOX S.S. Express, 9 th February 1918, age 18. WILLIAM J. HALCROW S.S. Cape Ross, 23 rd August 1922, age 30. ROBERT HEDDLE S.S. Express, 9 th February 1918, age 40. GEORGE LESLIE S.S. Express, 9 th February 1918, age 29. JAMES MARWICK S.S. Ruby, 29 th March 1917, age 42. WILLIAM MASON S.S. Ruby, 29 th March 1917, age 42. CHARLES PEACE S.S. Express, 9 th February 1918, age 32. GEORGE RENDALL S.S. Express R.N.R., H.M. Trawler Goeland II, 9 th November 1917, age 39. GEORGE I. RENDALL S.S. Express, 9 th February 1918, age 48.

5 Born in Kirkwall, listed on church memorial panel, but not on the Kirkwall War Memorial St Magnus Cathedral Panel FRANCIS I. MILNE Canadian Iceland Transport Service, 1 st November 1920, age 32. Lived in Kirkwall, listed on church memorial panel, but not on the Kirkwall War Memorial Paterson Church Panel Pte. CHARLES SPINKS 13th Gloucestershire Regiment, 23 rd March 1918, age 27. Peedie Kirk Panel ANDREW J. EUNSON M.M., 8 th December 1919, age 46. Born in Kirkwall or St. Ola, not listed on any Orkney war memorial Pnr. JAMES BEGG 2nd Battalion, Special Brigade, R.E., 1 st March 1917, age 28. Pte. THOMAS O. BRUCE 13th Essex Regt., 30 th November 1917, age 39. Pioneer JOHN C. CAITHNESS Inland Waterways & Docks, R.E., 27 th October 1917, age 32. Pte. JOHN CORSIE 15th H.L.I., 2 nd October 1918, age 24. Pte. ALFRED DREVER 8th (Winnipeg Rifles) Battalion, C.E.F., 10 th November 1917, age 24. A.B. WILLIAM DREVER M.M., SS Gorsemore, 26 th June 1917, age 47. Pte. ADAM FLEMING 2nd Argylls, 24 th December 1916, age 30. A.B. WILLIAM IRVINE M.M., SS Edina, 10 th January 1915, age 53. Pte. RODERICK MACLACHLAN 15th Royal Scots, 12 th September 1918, age 29. Pte. WILLIAM S. MOLONEY 1st Royal Munster Fusiliers, 4 th November 1916, age 21. Pte. DAVID MUIR [MORE] 2nd Seaforths, 1 st July 1916, age 26. Sergt. HENRY M. O HARE, DCM, MM 110 th Battery/24th Brigade, R.F.A., 5 th December 1917, age 24. Lieut. ALEXANDER STUART 25th Battalion, A.I.F., 5 th August 1916, age 33. Enlisted in Kirkwall, not listed on any Orkney war memorial Pte. ANDREW ANDERSON 3rd Seaforths, 31 st May Pte. WILLIAM DALLAS 11th Gordons, 7 th April 1916, age 32. Pte. ERIC FINDLAY 2nd Seaforths, 4 th October 1917, age 20. Pte. ARTHUR FREEMAN 17th Lancashire Fusiliers, 23 rd August Pte. JOHN McRITCHIE 3rd Seaforths, 5 th June 1915, age 19. Pte. ALEX. MASSIE 6th H.L.I., 21 st November 1917, age 24. Pte. WILLIAM ROBERTSON 1st Garrison Battalion, Gordons, 26 th October 1918, age 35. L/Cpl. JAMES TAYLOR 8th Seaforths, 25 th September Cpl. DONALD G. URQUHART, MM 1st Gordons, 15 th June 1918, age 27. Pte. WILLIAM WILLIAMSON 2nd Gordons, 25 th September 1915, age 26.

6 Second World War F/O FREDERICK BUCHANAN RAF(VR), 78 Squadron, 3 rd February 1943, age 27. R/O JOHN A.P. CAMPBELL MN, SS Cape Corso, 2 nd May 1942, age 22. Sgt/Pilot WILSON CAMPBELL RAF(VR), 3 Squadron, 12 th May 1945, age 23. Cpl. THOMAS H. CHALMERS RAF(VR), 7 th January 1945, age 26. L/Bdr. JOHN A. COOPER 12th (HAC) Regiment, RHA, 6 th May 1943, age 27. Bdr. EDWIN CORSIE RA, 18 th June 1944, age 31. R/O A.B. JOHN R. FIRTH MN, MV San Victorio, 17 th May 1942, age 29. P/O JAMES S.M. FLETT RN, SS Baltonia, 7 th February 1943, age 23. O/Smn. ROBERT R. HARCUS RN, HMS Mahratta, 25 th February 1944, age 19. F/O DAVID B. HUME RAF(VR), 47 Squadron, 22 nd January 1944, age 24. Marine NORMAN ISBISTER Royal Marines Engineers, HMS Proserpine, 8 th July 1944, age 21. L/Cpl. THOMAS JOHNSTONE Manchester Regiment, 24 th September 1944, age 30.? Smn. JERRY W. KELDAY RN(R), HMS Curacoa, 2 nd October 1942, age 29. Spr. DAVID LINKLATER Royal Engineers, 2 nd April 1940, age 33. A.B. JAMES LINKLATER MN, tug Imperious, 14 th December 1939, age 61. Spr. NORMAN LINKLATER Royal Engineers, 15 th June 1947, age 22. Smn. GEORGE S. MORRIS RNPS, HM Drifter British Crown, 10 th November 1941, age 29. Sgt. JOHN A. NORQUOY Royal Engineers, 30 th April 1941, age 40. Gnr. GEORGE PARTNER 95 Battery, 48 Light AA Regiment, RA, 27 th June 1945, age 35. Sgt. NORMAN J. PEACE RAF(VR), 76 OTU, 15 th January 1945, age 19. Gnr. JAMES D. RENDALL 7 Anti Tank Regiment, New Zealand Artillery, 17 th August 1942, age 29. Lieut/Col. DONALD ROBERTSON 7th Seaforths, 6 th August 1944, age 38. Ldg/Str. GEORGE ROBERTSON RN, HMS Courageous, 17 th September 1939, age 32. Gnr. JAMES ROBINSON 226 Heavy AA Battery, RA, 4 th September 1941, age 23. Pte. THOMAS ROBINSON 1st London Scottish (Gordons), 19 th November 1943, age 20. Lieut. CHARLES A. SHEARER attd. 166 (Newfoundland) Field Regiment, RA, 7 th May 1944, age 24. Pte. JOHN SINCLAIR 6th Seaforths, 19 th March 1944, age 19. Smn. JAMES W. SINCLAIR RNR, HMS Avenger, 15 th November 1942, age 24. Major ALASTAIR STEELE RA, 5 th March 1943, age 38. Signalman THOMAS WALLS 18th Division Signals, Royal Signals, 6 th July 1945, age 24. Post 1945 L/Cpl. COLIN LESLIE 1st Gordons, Northern Ireland, 18 th June 1972, age 26.