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Those known to have served with 6th Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders during the Second World War 1939-1945. - Billingham Albert.
- Cameron Allan. Cpl.
- Canning Arthur Douglas. Pte. (d.31st May 1944)
- Carruthers Andy. Pte.
- Dougan James. Sjt (d.6th Jun 1940)
- Eaton Bert. (d.3 March 1944)
- Edwards James Alexander. Private
- Gilmour William. Pte.
- Guess George.
- Hartshorn James Owen. Pte.
- Hill Sidney Horace. Pte. (d.7th May 1942)
- Hornby John. Pte.
- Inrig Benjamin. Pte. (d.20th January 1944)
- Keay William. Cpl. (d.23rd January 1944)
- King DCM. James. Sgt Maj.
- Laird Robert. Pte.
- Lapsley Andrew Arthur. Cpl. (d.18th Jan 1944)
- Lyall James. Sgt.
- Macdonald Donald John. L/Cpl. (d.30th January 1944)
- McIntosh James. CSgt.
- Rawlings Reginald. L/Cpl.
- Sime Alexander Scott Killoch. Pte.
- Stonier Adam. Pte. (d.30th January 1944)
- Sutherland Robert Thomas. Pte. (d.27th May 1940)
- Warne William. L/Cpl. (d.18th Jan 1944)
- Waylen MC. Francis Roy. A/Lt Col. (d.10th Jul 1943)
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Pte. Alexander Scott Killoch Sime 6th Btn. Seaforth Highlanders Dad, Alexander Sime was a POW held in the hospital block. He had a shrapnel wound on his thigh and could not walk properly. He remembers that the guards were not very vigilant and that the POWs had managed to detach a gas pipe and they had lit it. It had a huge long flame but they were able to make tea dangling their cups or billies over the end of the flame. He was returned home on a boat in 1942. He weighed six and a half stone and was over 6 foot. It was turned into the Norwegian POW camp after they were all sent home.
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L/Cpl. William Warne 6th Btn. Seaforth Highlanders (d.18th Jan 1944) William Warne, served with the 6th Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders. He was killed crossing the Garigliano River on the 18th of January 1944, and is buried in the Minturno War Cemetery.
He received the following decorations: War Medal; Defence Medal; African Star; Italian Star; 1939-45 Star.
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Sgt. James Lyall 6th Battalion Seaforth Highlanders Information found on marriage certificate confirms that James Lyall, was a Sergeant in the 6th Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders. Family story goes that Jimmy Lyall was wounded at Dunkirk and his name is mentioned in a book but I'm not sure which one.
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Pte. James Owen Hartshorn 6th Btn. Seaforth Highlanders  James Hartshorn, served with the 6th Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders during WW2. The 22-year-old Jimmy joined up in February 1940 and after marrying his sweetheart in Leicester in May 1940, went off to serve his country with so many of his peers.
Unfortunately, in 1941, less than a year after they were married, his new wife was stricken with tuberculosis and sadly died. Jimmy, after mourning the loss of his wife, re-joined his battalion in Madagascar. He was an Engineer/Driver and was concerned with keeping the British forces mobile in the harsh and unfamiliar terrain in India and the Middle East.
From Iraq he travelled to join the British North Africa Forces in Libya, in their defence against Rommel, before crossing the Mediterranean to fight in Anzio. From Anzio he went North to Rome and towards the end of the war on to the Rhineland to help the Allies regain control in NW Europe.
He was released, with exemplary conduct, on the 1st of June 1946 to go home to family and remaining friends in Thurmaston.
He went on to marry again, raise a family and live out his days in relative contentment, despite the mental and physical scars of battle, and the loss of his first love.
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CSgt. James McIntosh 6th Btn. HQ Coy. Seaforth Highlanders My Father James McIntosh was a member of the 6th Btn. Seaforth Highlanders (TA) HQ Company Elgin, Scotland.
He served in Belgium, Dunkirk, N. Ireland, Madagascar, Sicily and Italy before being wounded whilst driving over a land mine.
He spent six months in hospital before returning to Fort George (Depot) as CQMS until the end of the war.
I remember him pulling out pieces of shrapnel from his legs on a regular basis up until he died in December 1965.
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Sgt Maj. James King DCM. 6th Btn. Seaforth Highlanders James King was awarded the DCM for gallantry and devotion to duty in a wadi on the 19th of March 1944 and personally directed the supply of ammunition to the forward elements and sniped at least 3 of the enemy.
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Pte. Benjamin Inrig 6th Btn. Seaforth Highlanders (d.20th January 1944) Ben Inrig was the uncle of a friend of mine who thought that Ben had been killed in Sicily. In the event, I checked with CWGC records and discovered he had been killed on 20th January 1944 during involvement in the Garigliano crossing, and that he was buried in the Minturno cemetery. We visited the grave together and being in the locality I visited again some years later.
I would like to have had more details of his death but this seems to be not possible.
My own father was killed in action serving with The Duke of Wellington's Regiment at Anzio.
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Cpl. Allan Cameron 2nd Btn. Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) Allan Cameron joined the 6th Btn. Seaforth Highlanders at Fort George in 1943. He was transferred at some point to the 2nd Cameronians.
He served in North Africa, Palestine, Anzio, up through Italy, into Vichy France, then Holland, Belguim and ended his war at Lubeck and was demobbed in 1947. He died in Glasgow on 26th February 2017 aged 92 years. A very fine man.
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Pte. Sidney Horace Hill 6th Btn. Seaforth Highlanders (d.7th May 1942) Sidney Hill is the husband of someone I am related to. That is all I know. There is a memorial to him, with the grave of his daughter Janet Maureen Hill, in Groby Churchyard in Leicestershire.
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Pte. Adam Stonier 6th Battalion Seaforth Highlanders (d.30th January 1944) My great great uncle, Adam Stonier, was killed 30/1/44 in Italy.
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