Researching family member Hugh Jackson Morrison from Leven, Fife. He was a Serjeant for 23 Field Sqn, Royal Engineers died 24 Nov 1947, Israel. Any info would...
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charvel@...
Dec 5, 2000 2:48 am
Hi, I found your posting on the 78th Highlanders...William Ross was a Corporal and Alexander Ross was listed as "Soldier" in Capt. John Nairn's Company of the...
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amajor@...
Dec 6, 2000 10:38 pm
Dear Mr. McKay & All, I understand that you all have considerable expertise in Scottish military history, and Mr. McKay's surname gives me great hope that you...
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keith.chippendale@...
Dec 7, 2000 11:27 pm
i`m trying to find out anything to do with my father ernest starbuck born in 1899 he told me many years ago that he was in the seaforth highlanders in the...
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mcinnes@...
Dec 8, 2000 8:41 pm
My Grandfather "Robert James Lewis" was in this regiment during the first world war, and apparently was a prisoner of war. Can anyone give me any information...
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burnettd@...
Dec 8, 2000 11:49 pm
My Scotland born Wilson ancestors were Military Officers in Russia for several generations from about 1760 to about 1860. My Wilson family included Vice...
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GAM47@...
Dec 11, 2000 3:17 pm
I came across the site by accident, and definately though I should join up. I am Gordon Angus Mackinlay, of Sydney, Australia. Email GAM47@.... My...
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GAM47@...
Dec 11, 2000 3:24 pm
THIS IS A LARGE MESSAGE Ladies and Gentlemen, I am making a request for assistance. Over the past three years Ihave been preparing a definitive account of the...
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Del. Christien
bc_fam@...
Dec 11, 2000 8:45 pm
Greetings Mr. Mackinley! I am fairly new to the list as well but definitely a novice. The 42nd caught my eye. I am looking for information on Major General...
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bruce.mcnair@...
Dec 12, 2000 8:59 pm
My ISP seems to go mad from time to time: sorry about this. I wanted to ask Gordon MacKinlay about an award made to my grandfather during, I think, WW1: the...
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Gerry O'Neill
gerry.oneill@...
Dec 12, 2000 10:34 pm
Hi all could anyone help me with the following I am researching a 2967824 WO2 Edmiston A&SH, he was awarded an LS&GC in army order 63 of April 1933. I wonder...
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bhmcdonald@...
Dec 13, 2000 8:33 pm
My decendant John W. McDonald was an Ensign in the First Highland Regiment, later to be designated the 77th Highland Regiment. I would like to share...
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GAM47@...
Dec 14, 2000 1:19 am
Sir, The MSM is a very complex subject: In the Great War period awarded for: 1. Gallantry, and also devotion to duty; 2. Distinguished service, 3....
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Del. Christien
bc_fam@...
Dec 14, 2000 3:53 am
Thank You very much for your reply! I had to ask <grin>............I'll see if our library can get the book that you have mentioned. Thanks again for your...
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depierre@...
Dec 14, 2000 4:37 am
Dear Sir, I recently acquired a medal group to 2978041 Pte. T.Anderson A&SH. the medals are IGS 1908, IGS 36-39, 1935 Star, Africa Star, Burma Star, Defence &...
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Noddy
DNor1314@...
Dec 14, 2000 12:29 pm
... LOWEN. ... Hi Gordon. I read your intro letter with interest. You see I'm one of the many "Sharpe" fans and I thought you might be interested (for light...
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GAM47@...
Dec 14, 2000 2:07 pm
THE GOLD CROSS TO Sir THOMAS BRISBANE Sir,This is the entry in my latest book, on the gold awards for he 1793-1815 period, for Brisbane. BRISBANE Sir...
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Noddy
DNor1314@...
Dec 14, 2000 4:28 pm
Gordon, can I have your permission to pass this info. onto a fellow history buff in the "Sharpe" group? (he's an Aussie too if that helps swing it!) ...
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Pedler Don .W.
dped@...
Dec 15, 2000 4:15 am
Dear All, Uniform details required fot the First Battalion Seaforths {72nd.] at Tel-el-Kebir.Were they wearing Mackenzie kilts or still wearing the 72nd trews...
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T.F. Mills
tfmills@...
Dec 15, 2000 9:07 am
... 1st Seaforths were in the Indian Brigade and had just come from India via Aden. A year after the reorganisation that paired them with the 78th, they were...
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Gordon Angus Mackinlay
GAM47@...
Dec 16, 2000 3:04 am
Mr Norwood, Sir, No problems about giving it to your friend, but remember (and pass to him) this this is part of a 330 page book on some 900 men, and this is...
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Nicholas Steward
steward67@...
Dec 16, 2000 12:28 pm
Hello, From The Royal Military Calendar, 1820. Colonel George Duncan Robertson, C.B. 1782: Ens. in an Independant Co. 1783: 15th Foot 1788: Lieutenant by...
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Del. Christien
bc_fam@...
Dec 16, 2000 5:22 pm
Thank you Very Much Nicholas!!! The info on Geo. Duncan Robertson is priceless! This is him! I know very little of the military but this gives me an...
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bruce.mcnair@...
Dec 16, 2000 7:16 pm
Thank you, sir, for the excellent topo on MSM. Bruce....
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Gordon Angus Mackinlay
GAM47@...
Dec 16, 2000 10:27 pm
Mr Christien Sir, Your ancestor was the commanding officer of the chap for whom I made the request for information in Message 819, Untitled; LOWEN who received...
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Gordon Angus Mackinlay
GAM47@...
Dec 16, 2000 10:31 pm
Sir, He is not shown in SAINSBURY's book, so it must be for distinquished service. In the vague recesses of my brain there is the thought that somewhere in the...
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Wjtrotter@...
Dec 17, 2000 12:26 am
Malcolm, king of Scotland defeated Uchtred,Earl of Northumberland. The battle was called "Trotters" as it appears on a map I have "The Border Battlefields and...
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SHCAIRNS@...
Dec 17, 2000 1:07 am
... grandfather. ... in 1919....
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SHCAIRNS@...
Dec 17, 2000 1:18 am
Information re service records can be obtained from Records Office,Kew Gardens,London.for a fee of £20....
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SHCAIRNS@...
Dec 17, 2000 1:22 am
I am trying to obtain information on my Father`s time with the Regiment in Palastine in 1938 and Crete in 1940 where he was taken Prisoner. He was taken to...
