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| Name | Regiment | Buried | Biography |
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David Foulis Tweedie |
Scots Guards | MINTURNO WAR CEMETERY | David F. Tweedie, Guardsman, The Scots Guards, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. Tweedie, 40 Polwarth Gardens, Edinburgh, was born on 18th March 1911. After attendance at Watson's from 1916 to 1926 he entered the firm of Messrs. Mel roses, Ltd. , Tea Merchants, and later joined his father in his tea business. He was a keen rugby player and a fine rifle shot. Enlisting in the 2nd Battalion, The Scots Guards, his proficiency as a shot was soon recognised and, in shooting for the Guards, he took first place with the Bren gun and seventh with the service rifle, a performance which entitled him to have his name entered in the records of the Guards. He died of wounds received in Italy in 1943. |
William Alexander Thom Urmson |
RNVR | Not Known | William A. T. Urmson, Lieutenant, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, son of the late Mr. W. B. Urmson, Tezpur, Assam, and Mrs. Urmson, 16 Westhall Gardens, Edinburgh, was born on 26th August 1917. Entering Watson's in 1924 from the Grange Home School, Edinburgh, he distinguished himself both as a scholar and as an athlete, gaining his 1st XV and 2nd XI Colours. On leaving school in 1935 he entered the office of Mr. T. Aikman Swan, A.R.I.B.A. Joining up at the outbreak of war, he received a commission in the R.N.V.R. and saw much service minesweeping in the English Channel and round the coast of Britain. In March 1943 he was sent home from the U.S.A. and discharged, suffering from sarcoma contracted during war service. He died in an Edinburgh nursing home on 2nd June 1943. View John Hamblin's Research |
Alexander Torbain Urquhart |
Cameron Highlanders | RAWALPINDI WAR CEMETERY | The second son of Mr. C. R. Urquhart, Leith, was born in 1883. Entering G.W.C. in 1890, he left in 1897, to engage in business as an ironmonger. In 1909 he emigrated to Chile where he was employed as an assistant engineer on railway construction work. He volunteered for service in 1915 and travelled 10,000 miles to enlist. He was sent to France a a Pte in the Cameron Highlanders; took part in the Battle of the Somme and was twice wounded. In 1917 he was promoted to l/Cpl. Re-enlisting after the Armistice was signed, he sailed for India with the 1st Cameron Highlanders In July 1919, and died at Rawal Pindi of para-typhoid, Dec 22 1919. |
William T Urquhart |
Sherwood Foresters | VLAMERTINGHE NEW MILITARY CEMETERY | Born at Aidin, near Smyrna in 1885, was the son of Mr A. Urquhart, late of south Russia. educated at GWC, which he entered in 1893, he was serving his apprenticeship as a CA when the South African War broke out. He immediately enlisted and took part in the greater part of that campaign, winning both the Queen's and King's Medals. He later saw service in the Zulu campaign in Swaziland. In business as a sugar refiner in Brisbane in 1914, he joined the 5th Australian Light Horse, and served with distinction at the Dardanelles, winning the D.C.M. and a commission on the field. He was four times wounded. On recovery he was sent to France and attached to the 1st Sherwood Foresters, with the rank of Lt. After playing a notable part in several engagements, he fell in action at Ypres, July 6th, 1917. |
Raymond Nisbet Valvona |
M.N. | TOWER HILL MEMORIAL | Raymond N. Valvona, Cadet, Merchant Navy, only son of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Valvona, 12 Churchhill Place, Edinburgh, was born on 8th February 1924. After attendance at Watson's from 1928 to 1939 he entered the Leith Nautical College, gained a First Class Certificate of Merit in June 1940, and joined a tanker bound for Trinidad to make his first voyage. On the return journey his ship was torpedoed within a day's voyage from home on 25th August 1940 and only six of the crew of thirty-nine were saved. |
Ian Donald Cruikshank Veitch |
RAMC | CURRIE PARISH CHURCHYARD | Ian D. C. Veitch, Major, Royal Army Medical Corps, son of the late Mr. John Veitch and of Mrs. Veitch, Dunnbrae, Lanark Road, Currie, was born on 21st August 1907. Entering Watson's in 1915, he had a distinguished career at school, gaining the Scott, Club Prize, the India Prize for Mathematics, and the Lowe Memorial Prize in Science. He was a School Prefect and a member of the Dramatic Club and O.T.C. Leaving in 1925, he graduated M.B., Ch.B. at Edinburgh University in 1930. In his student days he was a keen athlete and was a winner of the annual race to the top of Arthur's Seat. Taking up practice in Galashiels, he was appointed President of the Gala Harriers Club. He joined the R.A.M.C. in September 1942, and went out to India, where he was posted to the 9th Indian B.H.Q., Poona. After taking part in the Burma campaign of 1944 he was appointed D.A.D.M.S. at Bangalore, where he remained until invalided home in December 1945. He died in Edinburgh Castle on 4th March 1946. |
Robert Vickers |
R.F.A. | MENDINGHEM MILITARY CEMETERY | A son of Mrs. Vickers, Edin., was born in 1889 and educated at Pentland Public School, Lasswade Higher Grade School, and G.W.C. 1904-7. A distinguished student, he left G.W.C. the winner of the Medal in Mathematics and Special Prizeman in Science. He graduated at Edin. Univ., M.A. (1st Class Hons. Maths.) and B.Sc. (Distinction in Maths.), gaining the Bruce of Grangehill Scholarship in 1911. Passing to Cambridge Univ., he obtained 1st Class Hons. in Part 1 of the Mathematical Tripos. He joined the R.F.A. in 1915, and soon reached the rank of Sgt. In Apr. 1917 he was gazetted 2/Lt. and a month later crossed to France, where he proved himself a most efficient artillery officer. Mortally wounded on Dec. 7, 1917, he died on Dec. 10 at the 64th C.C.S. |
| Lionel Frank Vinicombe | Devonshire Regiment att Royal West Kents | DRANOUTRE MILITARY CEMETERY | The second son of General Vinicombe Pasha, an officer in the Turkish Army, was born in Constantinople in 1887, and attended G.W.C. 1900-5, coming up the Commercial side. On leaving School he proceeded to King's College, London, to qualify as an analytical chemist, but eventually went to Stockholm to study for a career in educational and medical gymnastics. Returning to England he was appointed lecturer in a Training College for Teachers. On the outbreak of war he was gazetted to the Devonshire Regt., and some months later crossed to France attached to the Royal West Kents as 2/Lt. He fell on June 29, 1916. |
George Wade |
Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders | MIKRA MEMORIAL | Born in 1896. Having received his early education at Galashiels and Hawick, he came to G.W.C. in 1913 and left in 1914 to study motor engineering at the Heriot-Watt College. In 1915 he entered the M.G.C. as a Gnr. and was in the same year gazetted to the A. and S. H. Ordered to Egypt, he went down in the transport Ivernia in the Mediterranean, Jan. 1, 1917. |
Bernard Wakeford |
RASC | ELTHAM CEMETERY, London | Bernard Wakeford, Second Lieutenant, Royal Army Service Corps, was the only son of Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Wakeford, Rhos-on-Sea, Denbighshire. Born on 5th April 1916, he came to Watson's from Bonnington Academy, Leith, in 1923 and left in 1925 to enter the Roan School, Greenwich, when his parents moved from Edinburgh to London. An excellent boxer, he was runner-up in the final of the Schoolboys' Championship of Great Britain in 1932. He joined the staff of the Union Assurance Society in 1933 and as a Territorial was called up for service with the R.A.S.C. in September 1939. He crossed to France in January 1940 and took part in the Battle of Dunkirk. Commissioned in February 1942, he was serving in Northern Ireland when he was killed in a road accident on l0th September 1942. |