Memorial details

Memorial type
Bells or bell tower
District
Perth And Kinross
Town
Perth
County
Tayside
Country
Scotland
Commemoration
First World War (1914-1918)
Lost
Not lost
WM Reference
81848

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Current location

St John's Kirk
St John's Place
Perth
Perth And Kinross
Tayside
PH1 5SZ
Scotland

OS Grid Ref: NO 11919 23578
Denomination: Church of Scotland

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Description
Church Bell with a dedication in raised lettering. This is bell 31 of the Carillion at the Kirk
Inscription
N PROUD AND LOVING MEMORY OF/LIEUT. CLAUD NORIE-MILLER, R.A.S.C.,/ELDEST SON OF FRANCIS NORIE-MILLER/OF CLEEVE,/WHO WAS DROWNED BY SINKING OF/THE TRANSPORT "TRANSYLVANIA" /ON 4TH MAY, 1917. /DULCE ET DECORUM EST PRO PATRIA MORI.
Inscription legible?
yes
Names on memorial
Norie-miller, Claud
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Commemorations
  • First World War (1914-1918)
    Total names on memorial: 1
    Served and returned: 0
    Died: 1
    Exact count: yes
    Information shown: surname, forename, relationships, rank, regiment, manner of death, place of death, date of death
    Order of information: Undefined
Components
  • Bells
    Measurements: Undefined
    Materials: Metal
Condition
Trust fund/Scholarship
No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A
Reference
  • warmemscot.s4.bizhat.com/viewtopic.php?t=7151&mforum=warmemscot
  • From ROLL OF HONOUR OF THE PARISH OF TIBBERMORE: LIEUT. CLAUD NORIE-MILLER, aged 34 years, eldest son of Mr and Mrs Norie-Miller, of Cleeve, eductaed at Ardvreck, Crieff, and Glenalmond College, received an appointment in the General Accident Assurance Corporation, and aftervisiting various foreign branches was appointed manager for Canada. He joined the canadian Forces early in 1916, and on returning home was gazetted to the Royal Army Service Corps, Motor Transport, when he volunteered for Egyptian Service. Drowned at sea from 'Transylvania', torpedoed off the coast of Genoa, 4th May, 1917. He could have saved himself, but gave up his place to another. *The liner Transylvania, Lt. S. Brennell, R.N.R., completed just before the outbreak of the First World War, was taken over for service as a transport on completion. She was designed to accommodate 1,379 passengers but the Admiralty fixed her capacity at 200 officers and 2,860 men, besides crew. She was carrying nearly this number when she left Marseilles for Alexandria on May 3rd, 1917, with an escort of two Japanese destroyers, the Matsu and the Sakaki. At 10 a.m. on the 4th the Transylvania was struck in the port engine room by a torpedo from a submarine. At the time the ship was on a zig zag course at a speed of 14 knots, being two and a half miles S. of Cape Vado, Gulf of Genoa. She at once headed for the land two miles distant, while the Matsu came alongside to take off the troops, the Sakaki meanwhile steaming around to keep the submarine submerged. Twenty minutes later a torpedo was seen coming straight for the destroyer alongside, which saved herself by going astern at full speed. The torpedo then struck the Transylvania and she sank very quickly, less than an hour having elapsed since she was first hit. Lt. Brennell, one other officer and ten men of the crew, 29 military officers and 373 other ranks were killed.

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