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WW2 ROLL OF HONOUR

PONSFORD

JAMES CECIL SPENCER

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Flight Lieutenant

'80801'

44

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

15/03/1944

SINGAPORE MEMORIAL

Son of Spencer and Lilian Ponsford; husband of Helen Ponsford, of Comrie, Perthshire.

RAE

GEORGE

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Captain

'EC/500'

7th Gurkha Rifles

22/03/1944

RANGOON MEMORIAL

RANKIN

ANDREW

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Pilot Officer

'146332'

21

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

24/08/1943

BERLIN 1939-1945 WAR CEMETERY

Son of Robert and Mary Dickson Wilson Rankin, of Bearsden, Dunbartonshire.

REID

WILLIAM ALEXANDER

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Lieutenant

'262540'

20

Royal Engineers

19/10/1943

SANGRO RIVER WAR CEMETERY

Son of Matthew Lochhead Reid and Catherine Reid, of Pollokshields, Glasgow.

RENNIE

HUGH WYLIE

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Major

'106055'

55

Highland Light Infantry (City of Glasgow Regiment)

08/02/1946

KILLEARN PARISH CHURCHYARD

Son of Bruce and Margaret Jane Rennie; husband of Dorothy Rennie, of Killearn.

RIDDELL

ALEXANDER

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Lieutenant

'26559'

Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders

Seaforth Highlanders

26/06/1942

IMPHAL WAR CEMETERY

ROBERTSON

JAMES BRUCE

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Sub-Lieutenant

'430'

22

Royal Navy

27/07/1944

PLYMOUTH NAVAL MEMORIAL

Son of James Berkeley Hope Robertson and Janet Robertson, of Glasgow.

ROSS

ANDREW IAN

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Second Lieutenant

'162684'

22

Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders

05/12/1941

HALFAYA SOLLUM WAR CEMETERY

Son of the Revd. Robert Ross and Marjorie Jackson Ross, of Hamilton, Lanarkshire. M.A., Hons. (Glasgow).

SCOTT

ALEC MAXTONE WRIGHT

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Pilot Officer

'76023'

29

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

02/01/1941

BLACK BOURTON (ST. MARY) CHURCHYARD

Son of James Scott, M.B. Ch.B., F.R.F.P.S.G. and Evelyn Wright Scott, of Glasgow. B.A. (Oxon.).

SCOTT

ALASTAIR WINGATE

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Sergeant

'1567699'

22

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

03/04/1945

RUNNYMEDE MEMORIAL

Son of Alexander Martin Scott and Jane Gertrude Wingate Scott, of Dumbarton.

SHEARER

LESLIE

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Sergeant

'1061378'

21

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

29/06/1942

WONSERADEEL (MAKKUM) PROTESTANT CHURCHYARD

Son of Dr. Charles Shearer, M.A., M.D., and Alison Shearer, B.Sc., of Newcastle-on-Tyne.

SLOAN

IAN CALDWELL PERSTON

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Second Lieutenant

'73648'

26

Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)

22/05/1940

ANZEGEM COMMUNAL CEMETERY

Son of William Henry Perston Sloan and of Esther Helen Bowles Sloan (nee Caldwell), of Helensburgh, Dunbartonshire; husband of Kathleen Helen Sloan (nee Murray Bissett), of Helensburgh. B.A. (Cantab.).

SOLBE

EDWARD ULRIC GUERIN

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Squadron Leader

'34090'

30

Royal Air Force

21/02/1941

KIEL WAR CEMETERY

Husband of Jean G. Solbe, of Rustington, Sussex.

STEEL

JAMES GRAHAM

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Lance Corporal

'2580091'

23

Royal Corps of Signals

21/07/1944

ST. MANVIEU WAR CEMETERY, CHEUX

Son of James Boyd Steel and of Martha Eliza Steel (nee Campbell), of Glasgow.

STEVENSON

GEORGE HENDERSON

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Captain

'176143'

23

The Parachute Regiment, A.A.C.

09/06/1944

RANVILLE WAR CEMETERY

Son of George Henderson Stevenson and Grace Dorothy Stevenson, of Glasgow.

STEVENSON

ALEXANDER JOHN

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Lieutenant

'204356'

23

Highland Light Infantry (City of Glasgow Regiment)

07/10/1944

ARNHEM OOSTERBEEK WAR CEMETERY

Son of Joseph and Margaret Faulds Stevenson; husband of Daphne Eileen Stevenson, of Ratby, Leicestershire.

STRANG

ROBERT BURNS

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Lieutenant

'126919'

36

Royal Artillery

11/06/1942

M C

ALAMEIN MEMORIAL

Son of John Nairn Strang and Agnes Burns Strang, of Kilmacolm, Renfrewshire.

SWAN

AUBREY SPENCER TRAVERS

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Major

'72915'

35

Hampshire Regiment

23/09/1944

CORIANO RIDGE WAR CEMETERY

Son of Charles Tarrant Swan and of Agnes Lilian Swan (nee Cummins); husband of Pamela Courtenay Swan (nee Bell). B.A. (Oxon.).

SYME

JOHN QUINTAIN THOMAS

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Sub-Lieutenant

43

Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve

10/01/1945

NEW KILPATRICK (OR HILLFOOT) CEMETERY

Son of William Smith Syme and Blanche Jenkinson Syme, of Glasgow; husband of Irene Syme, of Fensa, Argentina. B.A. (Cantab.).

TAYLOR

ALISTAIR MURRAY

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Wing Commander

'77612'

30

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

11/07/1943

D F C

MALTA MEMORIAL

Son of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Taylor; husband of Joy L. Taylor, of Alverstoke, Hampshire.

TAYLOR

WILLIAM ADAM (BILLY)

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Signalman

'14499799'

18

Royal Corps of Signals

07/11/1943

GLASGOW (EASTWOOD) NEW CEMETERY

Son of William Adam Taylor and Annie Taylor, of Giffnock, Renfrewshire.

TESSIER

ALBERT LOUIS

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Lieutenant

50

Royal Naval Reserve

04/02/1940

WICK CEMETERY

Son of Eugene Louis Tessier and Elizabeth McKnight Tessier; husband of Minnie (Major) Tessier, of Ferring, Sussex. Mentioned in Despatches 1914-18 War.

THOMAS

WILLIAM KELMAN BURR

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Flying Officer

'72251'

Royal Air Force

04/02/1941

NANTES (PONT-DU-CENS) COMMUNAL CEMETERY

THOMLINSON

JOHN WILLIAM

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Sub-Lieutenant (A)

Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve

20/07/1945

LEE-ON-SOLENT MEMORIAL

Son of John and Mabel Eugenie Thomlinson.

THOMSON

ALEXANDER STUART

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Aircraftman 2nd Class

'1568503'

19

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

10/09/1944

HARARE (PIONEER) CEMETERY

Son of John Graham and Mary Inglis Thomson (nee Cunningham) of Paisley, S'clyde.

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