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Re: Regiment?
« Reply #9 on: Wednesday 30 January 08 14:28 GMT (UK) »
Ooops ...  yes Tomscot you are correct.  It's hard to see clearly on the original photo - with my eyes,  but on examining the restored photo  George Dickson served with the KOSBs.  :D
Reid: Nicol: Peterhead and Aberdeen
McDonald: Greig: Milne: Aberdeenshire
Moreland: Lanarkshire, Whitehaven in Cumbria and Ireland
Cunningham: Lanarkshire, Cumbria and Ireland
Halliday: Falkirk, Stirlingshire and Ireland
Redpath: Stirlingshire and Banbridge
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« Reply #10 on: Wednesday 30 January 08 14:59 GMT (UK) »
Ahhhhh.. thanks folks....

Spoke with my mother last night and she didnt know which regiment he belonged to but remembers playing with his general service medal when she was wee. Which my Grandpa (his son, also George Dickson) threw out with his four WW2 medals when they moved house, saying "I wont be needing these again"

KOSB would fit better with him being from Galashiels in Selkirkshire.

All these wee pieces help! Thanks!

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« Reply #11 on: Monday 28 April 08 18:17 BST (UK) »
Have been off poorly today and found George's service records (must have been added in the last batch added to ancestry)  ;D

He was in the KOSB, conscripted on 29.9.1916. Service number 26949.

I have to decipher the records, but looks like he served in France and generally kept his head down.

Nice to have this resolved! Thanks for the help!  :)

Tracey

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« Reply #12 on: Monday 28 April 08 19:04 BST (UK) »
Well!  that is really good news Tracey, you getting George's Service Records, it is also thoughtful of you to let us know you have had a result.  :D
Reid: Nicol: Peterhead and Aberdeen
McDonald: Greig: Milne: Aberdeenshire
Moreland: Lanarkshire, Whitehaven in Cumbria and Ireland
Cunningham: Lanarkshire, Cumbria and Ireland
Halliday: Falkirk, Stirlingshire and Ireland
Redpath: Stirlingshire and Banbridge
McKay:


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« Reply #13 on: Wednesday 30 April 08 21:15 BST (UK) »
 :D Hi Tracey,
                    I'm glad that you have found George's service record, and everything have turn out fine. I served with the K.O.S.B. TA, in Galashiels,I live just outside Edinburgh.
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« Reply #14 on: Wednesday 30 April 08 21:20 BST (UK) »
 Tracey,I forgot to mention I served with a James Manderson meny years ago,I noted Manderson in your list of names. Did you have any family members in the Scots Guards?
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