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12th (Ayr and Lanark Yeomanry) Battalion, Royal Scots Fusiliers
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Pte. Charles Mcgeachy MM. 12th Btn. Royal Scots Fusiliers Charles Mcgeachy was awarded the Military Medal.
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Pte. John B. Moran 12th Btn Royal Scots (d.12th Oct 1917) John Moran, my Great Great Uncle, originally enlisted with the 12th Battalion, but is noted to be serving with the 8th at the time of his death.
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2Lt. Alexander Lucas 12th (Ayr and Lanark Yeomanry) Battalion, R Company Royal Scots Fusiliers Alexander Lucas was the son of a school head teacher in Glasgow. He survived the war and married Marjorie Mitchell, the daughter of a distillery owner in Campbelltown Argyll. He became a dental surgeon.
His brother James was a pioneer in the Royal Engineers during the war and also survived. He never married and was also a dental surgeon.
Their older sister Hope, was a teacher and married George Wilson, Chief Engineer RNR in 1916. He survived the war and became a Minister.
The youngest brother was too young to be involved in the 1st War but was in the RAMC in North Africa and Italy in the 2nd War. He was a doctor.
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Pte. Daniel McAllister Gibson 12th Btn. Royal Scots Fusiliers (d.31st Oct 1918) Daniel Gibson is buried in Vichte. I have his obituary and diary entries from his battalion.
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Pte Thomas Boag 12th Battalion Royal Scots Fusiliers (d.28th June 1918) Thomas was in the 12th Battalion Royal Scots Fusiliers. His initial medical review states "not likely to make an efficient soldier" yet he is still enlisted. The 12th Battalion was a Territorial Army regiment and it may have been for medical reasons that Thomas was placed in this regiment at his initial enlistment in 1915. He is then not called up until 1917. His army record states that he was posted to Egypt 18th October 1917.
The history of the 12th Battalion Royal Scots is as follows: 14th January 1917 the Battalion formed in Egypt and engaged in various actions of the Palestine Campaign including;
- 1917 The Second Battle of Gaza, The Third Battle of Gaza, The Capture of Beersheba, The capture of the Sheria Position, The capture of Jerusalem, The Defence of Jerusalem.
- 1918 The Battle of Tell'Asur.
- May 1918 Moved to France.
- 21.06.1918 Transferred to the 94th Brigade of the 31st Division which engaged in various actions on the Western Front.
The attack at La Becque started on 28th June 1918 and was a trench warfare campaign. British troops went over the top in the early hours of the morning and all had reached their enemy objective positions by 7.35am. Many of the casualties were actually caused by their own shrapnel being fired to short of the trench they were advancing too. The majority of Germans were taken too much by surprise to reach their machine guns on time. Sadly, for Thomas, his military record states that he died of wounds on the 28th June 1918 in France at a Casualty Clearing Station meaning that this offensive was most likely where and when he died.
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Pte. John Wassell Cope 11th Btn. Royal Scots (d.19th August 1918) My Maternal Grandfather, John Cope entered into service first with the Ayrshire Yeomanry as a private. This unit was integrated into the 12th Royal Scots Fusiliers. Grandfather's last assignment was with the 11th Royal Scots, he was killed on the 18th or 19th of August 1918 during the Battle Hoegenacker Ridge in France. His body was recovered and is buried in Meteren Military Cemetery.
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2nd Lt. David Barr MC 12th Btn Royal Scots Fusiliers David joined the Gordon Highlanders and the was in the 5th Battn Royal Scots Fusiliers and then was attached to the 12th Battalion Royal Scots Fusiliers at the rank of 2nd Lieutenant.
According to Gazette No. 31680...He was awarded the Military Cross.
On the 31st October 1918 during an attack south-west of Audenarde, after early losing his company commander, he continued the advance, and when checked by machine gun fire from an enemy post he worked around the flanks of the position and rushed the post, capturing two machine guns. Throughout the operations he set a fine example of courage and initiative to his men.
David immigrated to Australia in the 1920's and was living in Maryborough, Victoria at the time of his death on 11 August 1970
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Capt. James Strang MID. 12th Battalion Royal Scots Fusiliers James Strang was the step-father of my late father-in-law Peter Pascoe and I have found Captain Strang's certificate of Mentioned In Despatches signed by Winston Churchill. I am trying to find out more details of the action in which he was MID.
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Pte. William Taylor 12th Btn. Royal Scots Fusiliers William Taylor joined the Royal Scots Fusiliers on 1st Sept 1914. He was born in 1898.
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Pte. John Nimmo MM. 12th Btn. B company Royal Scots Fusiliers (d.19th August 1918) My Great Uncle Johnny Nimmo died less than 3 months before the end of the war. Family stories say that he ran away to enlist at the start of the war but his parents found out and took him back home. I was always told that this was because he was too young, but after researching my family tree I found out that he was 18 at the outbreak of war. The only reason I can think for his parents taking him home is that he had just turned or would shortly be 19 and could then serve over seas.
Again family stories say that he was photographed ploughing a field in Palestine, with a camel.
He was wounded on the 13th of August 1918 during an operation to capture the village of Vieux Berquin, in France, for which he was awarded the Military Medal. He died of his wounds 5 days later. In a letter to his parents from his OC J G Mcintyre, he is referred to as one of the "old hands", he wasn't even 23.
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Pte. George McCririck 12th Btn. Royal Scots Fusiliers (Ayrshire Yeomanry) (d.27th Dec 1917) George Mc Cririck served with the 12th Battalion, Royal Scots Fusiliers. He was killed in action on the 27th December 1917 aged 22 years. From the extract of the history of this unit it is likely that he was killed in action during the Defence of Jerusalem. He is buried in Jerusalem, Plot d28, Yerushalayam District, Israel. George was born in Old Cumnuck, Ayrshire on the 7th July 1895.
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Pte. Robert Macfarlane 12th Battalion Royal Scots Fusiliers My grandfather, Robert Macfarlane, was a miner in Tarbolton, Ayrshire. He may have been in the Territorial Forces prior to World War 1. He was in Egypt and in the Palestine Campaign and then the 12th Battalion of the Royal Scots Fusiliers who were part of the 31st Division, 94th Infantry Brigade who served in France until the end of the war.
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