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Robin Mabin Reid
« on: Saturday 28 May 22 19:48 BST (UK) »
Commonwealth War Graves Commission are appealing for relatives of Robin Maben Reid of the Kings Own Scottish Borderers - Service No :- 7429. Died 30/7/1915  (aged 18 years)

He was the son of James Reid, of Abbotrule, Bonchester Bridge, Hawick.

The private memorial marking the grave of Pvt Reid no longer provides adequate commemoration. The Commission are in the process of producing a new headstone.

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https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/664754/robert-maben-reid/

https://www.everyoneremembered.org/profiles/soldier/664754/

https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/name/1163249
This one says Country of death - Gallipoli

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Re: Robin Mabin Reid
« Reply #1 on: Saturday 28 May 22 19:49 BST (UK) »
UK, Soldiers Died in the Great War, 1914-1919

Pvt Robert Reid Hawick, Roxburgh - died 30 July 1915 (Second Western General Hospital. Manchester)
Enlistment Place Hawick, Roxburgh - Regiment King's Own Scottish Borders
Battalion 1st 4th Battalion - Regimental Number 7429
Type of Casualty Died of wounds - Theatre of War Home.

UK Army Register of Soldiers Effedcts

Pvt Robert Reid - 30 July 1915
Regiment:   King's Own Scottish Borderers
Regimental Number 7429. Father sole leg James.


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Re: Robin Mabin Reid
« Reply #2 on: Saturday 28 May 22 19:54 BST (UK) »


1901 Allanhaughmill Roxburghshire.

James Reid 33   Head. Wood Forester.
William Reid 5   Son
Robert M Reid   3   Son
Thomas Maben 22   Visitor. General Labourer.

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Re: Robin Mabin Reid
« Reply #3 on: Saturday 28 May 22 20:01 BST (UK) »
Wonder if this was the brother William - Pvt William Reid
Birth Place Hawick, Roxburgh - Residence Hawick, Roxburgh
Death Date 12 Jul 1915 - Death Place Dardanelles
Enlistment Place Hawick, Roxburgh
Regiment King's Own Scottish Borders - Battalion   1st 4th Battalion - Regimental Number 643
Type of Casualty Killed in action - Theatre of War Balkan Theatre.

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Re: Robin Mabin Reid
« Reply #4 on: Saturday 28 May 22 20:05 BST (UK) »
Both men were the children of James Reid and Helen Maben - married 1894 Oxnam, Roxburghshire.
Headstone Inscription gives Helen died 12 October 1900

James Reid -  1868 - 1917 Hawick, Roxburghshire.

Helen Maben - 1869 - 1900 Hawick, Roxburghshire. (aged 40 years)

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Re: Robin Mabin Reid
« Reply #5 on: Saturday 28 May 22 20:14 BST (UK) »
Ancestry tree is showing a daughter - Elizabeth Drummond Reid -  22 April 1899 - Roberton, Roxburghshire, Scotland.  Married a William Cheshire and passed away 1983 Chichester Sussex.

Elizabeth Drummond Cheshire 22 April 1899 - 1983  (aged 84 years) Chichester.
Volume 18 Page 1695

Marriage - Elizabeth Drummond Reid -  1920 - Hawick - 789/1


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Re: Robin Mabin Reid
« Reply #6 on: Saturday 28 May 22 20:19 BST (UK) »

Message sent to ancestry tree owner.

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