Newbattle Church is a beautiful old church with a fascinating history, however I always thought that it had a chapter missing from that history, a memorial to those who fell in the Second World War.
Well I’m pleased to say that the Parish has taken the decision to approve a memorial and to begin fundraising for it.
I have been asked to draw up a list of names for the memorial. a great honour, and a duty I readily agreed to.
I have drawn up a provisional list of names for inclusion, 55 in number currently.
This comprises all of those named on Newtongrange and Easthouses war memorials and a number of men who have been omitted or declined a place on the above memorials.
If you have a relative who is NOT on the list and would like him / her to be considered for inclusion on the memorial, please contact me with details of that person via the contact form below as soon as possible, giving as much information as possible.
A cut off date will be announced in due course, once that date is set, further entries regrettably cannot be accepted after then.
The list is now closed as of 30th June and we are no longer accepting new entries.
Thank you
Provisional list
1 | John F Allan RN | 27 | Alexander Hunter SH |
2 | James F Beveridge RA | 28 | James F Hughes SG |
3 | William H Bonsor RAOC | 29 | Robert L Jack |
4 | Alex Burnett SH | 30 | Barrie Jones RN |
5 | Peter Burnett RS | 31 | George C Johnston CSR |
6 | William Campbell QOCH | 32 | Charles C Law |
7 | Hector C Clark ASH | 33 | John Livingstone SH |
8 | John S Coleman RSF | 34 | Douglas MacKenzie |
9 | William Currie RAF | 35 | Malcolm McLean |
10 | James Dea RN | 36 | Peter J McLeod ASH |
11 | Edward B Dick GH | 37 | William Meek RAF |
12 | W R Dickson FMS | 28 | Robert Y Moffat RAOC |
13 | William Dodds RE | 39 | Thomas C Moffat RN |
14 | Harold Finlay MN | 40 | George Noble PR |
15 | Adam A Ford | 41 | John B Paxton MN |
16 | James C Forrest RN | 42 | Nicol Peacock SG |
17 | Ronald Fraser KOSB | 43 | George W Raper MN |
18 | Charles M Gowrie RASC | 44 | Ninian Roberts RSG |
19 | John Hadden RS | 45 | William A Scott RN |
20 | Andrew Haldane MN | 46 | Archie Thomson RE |
21 | Brodie D Haldane RAF | 47 | David Trist RN |
22 | Robert Hails HLI | 48 | John Webster MN |
23 | David Hamilton RAAF | 49 | Joseph White RN |
24 | John Herbert RN | 50 | Hugh Whitehead RNPS |
25 | James Holgate RE | 51 | Andrew D Wilson RN |
26 | David Hunter RN | 52 53 54 55 |
William S Wilson RN Zibigniew Kozlowski POL Richard Scott RE Dixon Gair GH |
I am enquiring from the Imperial War Museum War Memorials Register as to whether this was proceeded with. If so could you provide an image please.