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Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- District
- Midlothian
- Town
- Penicuik
- County
- Lothian
- Country
- Scotland
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918), Second World War (1939-1945), Colonial India
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 89210
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Current location
South Parish Church
Peebles Road
Penicuik
Midlothian
Lothian
EH26 8AX
Scotland
OS Grid Ref: Undefined
Denomination: Church of Scotland
- Description
- Five brass plaques on a wooden screen- the central one is the dedication, the two to the left are WW1, the two to the right are WW2/Colonial India 1946
- Inscription
- Plaque 1-1914/[names of officers and 1 private- Abernethy] Plaque 2-1919/[names privates B onwards] Plaque 3-+/TO/THE GLORY OF GOD/AND/IN THANKFUL MEMORY/OF THOSE OF THIS/CONGREGATION WHO/FELL IN THE CAUSE/OF RIGHTEOUSNESS/AND LIBERTY DURING/THE GREAT WAR Plaque 4-1939/[names A-G]/THEIR BODIES ARE/BURIED IN PEACE Plaque 5-1945/[names L-W]/[name]/KILLED IN PLANE CRASH CALCUTTA 1946/BUT THEIR NAME/LIVETH FOR EVERMORE
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Abernethy, John D
Affleck, James
Bates, Frank E
Breslin, Frank H
Brodie, James
Clapperton, James
Dempster, William
Dickson, John W
Ferguson, Arthur J
Forsyth, Alexander W
See details for all 38 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 25
Served and returned: 0
Died: 25
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname, forenames, rank
Order of information: rank THEN surname THEN forename - Second World War (1939-1945)
Total names on memorial: 12
Served and returned: 0
Died: 12
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname, forenames, rank, service
Order of information: surname THEN forename - Colonial India
Total names on memorial: 1
Served and returned: 0
Died: 1
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname, forenames, rank, service, manner of death, place of death, year of death
Order of information: Undefined
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Plaques
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Brass
- Plaques
- Condition
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Reference
- warmemscot.s4.bizhat.com/viewtopic.php?t=6704&mforum=warmemscot
- from: www.theygavetheirtoday.com/royal-air-force-chaplains.html Ian Wallace Moreton TAYLOR. Squadron Leader, Royal Air Force. RAFVR no. 104278. He died on 20 October 1946. He was 33. He was the son of John Moreton Taylor and Mary Ann Taylor and the husband of Cecilia Mackie Robertson Taylor of Edinburgh. He is buried in plot O, row A, grave 2 in Bhowanipore Cemetery, Kolkata (Calcutta) Additional Information Avro 685 York MW208 of 51 Squadron took off at 07.27 hours from RAF Dum Dum, Calcutta. The port inner engine was not giving full power during take-off because the spark plugs were heavily coated with carbon and other substances. Consequently, the aircraft did not get airborne, the pilot cut the engines and the aircraft crashed during an attempt to stop safely. Of the 18 persons on board, three were killed.
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