Family Commemoration To Our Lost Generation

CASUALTIES OF THE GREAT WAR FROM MY FAMILY TREE

 

 

Andrew Cockburn - Private with the Gordon Highlanders 2nd Battalion; Service Number S/10351. Born on 31 July 1888 Kelso Roxburghshire Scotland, died 25 September 1915 France/Belgium. Is remembered at the Loos Memorial in Belgium.

 

 

Loos Memorial Cemetery (Andrew Cockburn)

 

Robert Winter Patterson - Private with the Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) 10th Battalion; Service Number S/16086. Born 20 July 1880 Kelso Roxburghshire Scotland, died 9 May 1917 at Salonika, Greece as part of a British Expeditionary Force.  Is remembered on the Doiran Memorial on the shores of Lake Doiran, Greece.  Son of James Patterson and his wife Ann Cockburn.  Husband of Elizabeth Niven.

 

Doiran Memorial, Greece (Robert W Patterson)

 

 

Nicholas Allan - Private with the Kings Own Scottish Borderers 2nd Battalion; Service Number 7558.  Born 25 June 1869 Thornwood Northumberland, Died 20 April 1915 Belgium. Nicholas is buried at Poperinghe Old Military Cemetery.  He resided in Leith, Edinburgh and was the son of William Allan and his wife Helen Cockburn.  He was the husband of Susan Campbell.

 

Poperinghe Old Military Cemetery (Nicholas Allan)

 

 

George Alexander Cockburn - Acting Sergeant Kings Own Scottish Borderers 1/4th Battalion.  Service Number 6666. Born 8 March 1894 Galashiels Selkirkshire Scotland, died 12 July 1915 Gallipoli (Dardanelles).  He is remembered at the Helles Memorial Panels 84-92 or 220-222. He was the son of Alexander Cockburn and his wife Jane Chalmers.

 

 

Helles Memorial (George Alexander Cockburn)

 

Thomas Biggar - Sergeant with the Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment) 12th Battalion; Service Number 40126.  Born 10 September 1896 Kelso Roxburghshire Scotland, died 16 July 1918 Caestre, France. Thomas is buried at Le Peuplier Military Cemetery and was the son of Robert Biggar and Jane Patterson.  Thomas also received the Military Medal for Bravery.

 

 

Le Peuplier Military Cemetery (Thomas Biggar)

 

James Cockburn - Private with the Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment) 11th Battalion.  Service Number 1283. James was born 3 Oct 1882 Shotts, Lanarkshire Scotland, died 26 July 1918.  He is buried at Le Peuplier Military Cemetery. Son of Alexander Cockburn and Helen Sweeney.

 

 

Le Peuplier Military Cemetery (James Cockburn)

 

Andrew Hepburn Cockburn - Private with the Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment) 2nd Battalion. Service Number 2984. Andrew was born 9 Dec 1894 in Falkirk, Stirlingshire, died 13 November 1916. He is buried at Serre Road Cemetery No1. Son of Alexander Cockburn and Helen Sweeney.

 

Serre Road Cemetery No1 (Andrew Hepburn Cockburn)

 

 

William Purse - Guardsman Scots Guards. Service Number 8751.  Born 5 April 1896 Blantyre, Lanarkshire Scotland, died 18 December 1914. William is buried at Cabaret Rouge British Cemetery, Souchez, France. Son of John Purse and the late Catherine Reid. Step-son of Mary Jane Dobson, second wife of his father John.

 

 

Cabaret Rouge Cemetery (William Purse)

 

David Adams - Private with the Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment) 9th Battalion.  Service Number 44387. Born around 1899 in Uddingston, Lanarkshire Scotland, died 1 August 1918.  Remembered at the Soissons Memorial in France and is also listed on the marker of his parents grave in Lanarkshire Scotland.  Son of John Adams and Janet Wilson.

 

 

Soissons Memorial (David Adams)