GRANTOWN ON SPEY - SCOTLAND
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Grantown-on-Spey (Scottish Gaelic: Baile nan Granndach) is a town in the Highland Council Area, historically within the county of Moray. It was founded in 1765 as a planned settlement on a low plateau at Freuchie beside the river Spey at the northern edge of the Cairngorm mountains, about 20 miles south-east of Inverness. - Geoffrey Gillon
Lance Corporal Alexander CALDER 2792
Born: Inverallan, Morayshire, Scotland Enlisted 5-10-1916, Warrnambool, Victoria 46th Battalion Australian Infantry Departed Australia 30-10-1916 Killed in Action: 18-9-1918, aged 34years Son of the late Mr. and Mrs. James Calder, of Ballieward, Grantown-on-Spey, Scotland. Resting: Roisel Communal Cemetery Extension, Roisel, Picardie, France Honoured Australian War Memorial Panel 141 |
Gunner David DOUGLAS 2170
Born: Grantown, Inverness, Scotland
11th Field Artillery Brigade
Enlisted: 27-11-1915, Adelaide, South Australia
Departed Australia 16-3-1916
Killed in Action, Belgium 1-10-1917 aged 32years
Son of David and Jeannie McGregor Douglas, of 14, West Nicholson St., Edinburgh, Scotland.
Honoured: Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Flanders, Belgium
Honoured Australian War Memorial Panel 16
Born: Grantown, Inverness, Scotland
11th Field Artillery Brigade
Enlisted: 27-11-1915, Adelaide, South Australia
Departed Australia 16-3-1916
Killed in Action, Belgium 1-10-1917 aged 32years
Son of David and Jeannie McGregor Douglas, of 14, West Nicholson St., Edinburgh, Scotland.
Honoured: Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Flanders, Belgium
Honoured Australian War Memorial Panel 16
Private P. GORDON
Sergeant Louis Leonard GRANT 449
Born: Dulnain Bridge, Grantown-on-Spey, Enlisted: 16-9-1914, Melbourne, Victoria 14th Battalion Australian Infantry Died of Wounds on board Hospital Ship "Maheno" 30-8-1915, Gallipoli, Dardanelles, Turkey, aged 24years Son of Lewis and Jessie Grant, of Police Station, Fintry, Stirlingshire, Scotland. Honoured: Lone Pine Memorial, Gallipoli Peninsula, Canakkale Province, Turkey Honoured Australian War Memorial Panel 72 |
Lance Corporal John Alexander GRANT 1735A
Born: Grantown on Spey, Scotland Enlisted: 20-8-1915, Holdsworthy, New South Wales 45th Battalion Australian Infantry Died of wounds 23-1-1917, aged 27years Son of John and Annie Grant, of Duackside, Nethy Bridge, Inverness-shire, Scotland Resting: St Sever Cemetery Extension, Haute-Normandie, France Honoured Australian War Memorial Panel 139 |
Lieutenant Alexander Henry LESLIE 1203
also known as Alescander Hendry Born: Aberdeen City, Scotland 18th Battalion Australian Infantry Enlisted: 21-3-1915, Liverpool, New South Wales Departed Australia: 25-6-1915 Killed in Action, Belgium 20-9-1917 aged 27years Son of Samuel and Elizabeth Leslie, of Railway Terrace, Boat of Garten, Inverness-shire, Scotland. Honoured: Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Flanders, Belgium Honoured Australian War Memorial Panel 86 Also Honoured Boat of Garten War Memorial |
Private James Alexander McDONALD 133
Born: Banffshire, Scotland Enlisted: 12-4-1915, Black Boy Hill, Western Australia Occupation prior to Enlistment: Mill Hand 28th Battalion Australian Infantry Killed in Action 29-7-1916, France Father, John McDonald, Ballintomb Cottage, Dulman Bridge, Grantown-on-Spey, Scotland Honoured: Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France Honoured Australian War Memorial Panel 113 |
Corporal Alexander McINTOSH 1694
Born: Scotland Enlisted: 1-2-1916, Cootamundra, New South Wales 56th Battalion Australian Infantry Killed in Action, France 2-4-1917, aged 30years Son of Mrs A McIntosh of Ladysturn, Dulnain Bridge, Grantown on Spey, Scotland. Honoured:Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France Honoured: Australian War Memorial Panel 162 |
Private William John MacKenzie / McKENZIE 1384
Born: Inveravon, Ballindalloch, Scotland Enlisted: 3-11-1914, Black Boy Hill Camp, Western Australia Occupation prior to Enlistment: Farm Labourer 51st Battalion Australian Infantry Died of Wounds 5-8-1916, U.K. aged 27years Son of William and Elizabeth Grant Mackenzie, of Marypark Cottages, Blacksboat, Morayshire, Scotland. Resting: Colchester Cemetery, Colchester, Essex, England, United Kingdom Honoured Australian War Memorial Panel 153 Also honoured Inveravon War Memorial |
Driver Alexander YOUNG 217
Born: Duthie, Crarrbridge, Scotland Enlisted: 26-7-1915, Brisbane, Queensland 1st Australian Light Horse formerly 5th Australian Army Service Corps Co. Departed Australia: 2-11-1915 Died 16-7-1918, Palestine aged 31years Son of James and Jessie Young Resting: Jerusalem Memorial, Jerusalem War Cemetery, Israel Honoured Australian War Memorial Panel 3 |