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Title: Help identifying soldier
Post by: J11 on Wednesday 18 January 12 20:05 GMT (UK)

My mother told me that when she took her 90 year old father back to Gallipoli, where he was wounded at Gully Ravine in WW1, he told her about his sister Agnes's fiance who died there.  His name was Patterson, Pattison, Paterson.  My mother can't remember his first name.  Agnes lived in Morningside, Edinburgh all her life and I would assume her fiance was likely to be an Edinburgh man, possibly a  Royal Scot like my grandfather who was B company 1/4 RS.  Can anyone help me identify a Patterson, died at Gallipoli, 1915.

Jenny

Title: Re: Help identifying soldier
Post by: crisane on Wednesday 18 January 12 21:58 GMT (UK)

You could try searching here but with only a surname of various possible spellings to go on it is a very long shot.
http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=1766424

Title: Re: Help identifying soldier
Post by: hugatree on Wednesday 18 January 12 23:18 GMT (UK)

All on the Helles memorial, died 1915, served with Scottish regiments, good luck!

Thomas Patterson http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=686719
Alexander Paterson http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=689785
Andrew Paterson http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=689786
Charles Paterson http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=689787
David Paterson http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=689789
James Paterson http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=689790
John Paterson http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=689791
Robert John Paterson http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=689793
Thomas Paterson http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=689794
Thomas Sturgeon Paterson http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=689795
William Paterson http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=689796
William Paterson http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=689797
William D W Paterson http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=681815
James Pattison http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=686722
James Pattison http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=686723
Joseph Pattison http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=686724
Robert McFee Pattison http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=686725

Title: Re: Help identifying soldier
Post by: J11 on Thursday 19 January 12 07:40 GMT (UK)

Good grief!  I thought there might be more than one but 17!  This may have to remain a dead end.  Poor great aunt Agnes.  She was one of the many who remained a spinster all her life.  Thank you for looking that up for me.

Jenny

Title: Re: Help identifying soldier
Post by: Hibee on Thursday 19 January 12 09:37 GMT (UK)

Hi Jenny

You could probably whittle down these possibilities by looking for the following:

Officer or Other Ranks?  Your grandfather's friend was probably about the same rank as your grandfather.

Date of Death?  The battle of Gully Ravine was around 28/6/15 to 12/7/15.

Age.

Regiment.

Good luck!

Hibee

Title: Re: Help identifying soldier
Post by: ennael on Thursday 19 January 12 10:05 GMT (UK)

This wiki article may help narrow down which British Troops were in the area at the time of the Battle of Gully Ravine.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Gully_Ravine

Have you checked for his name on the Morningside War Memorial?

The following forum may possibly be of some help:

http://warmemscot.s4.bizhat.com/warmemscot-ftopic235.html

Leanne

Title: Re: Help identifying soldier
Post by: J11 on Thursday 19 January 12 11:56 GMT (UK)

Thank you both.  I can narrow him down but I have too little information to be sure.  Wonderful site for the Morningside War Memorial, so many young men!  My family were incredibly lucky, apart from Great Aunt Agnes, to have a Great Grandfather and both his brothers on one side and a grandfather and his brother on the other side all come back.  Most families had at least one loss.

Title: Re: Help identifying soldier
Post by: bertha on Sunday 04 March 12 18:51 GMT (UK)

What a nice website, unfortunately, this appears to be for Morningside & Chapel in Wishaw not Edinburgh. There is a War Memorial in the cemetery in Edinburgh & as we buried my mother-in-law there recently, next time we visit I will take a look to see if your young man is named.
Cheers
Bertha

Title: Re: Help identifying soldier
Post by: J11 on Sunday 04 March 12 19:05 GMT (UK)

Thank you Bertha, that's a very kind offer.

Title: Re: Help identifying soldier
Post by: bertha on Monday 26 March 12 00:12 BST (UK)

Hi Jenny
As promised, took a look at the memorial in the cemetery on Mothers Day, unfortunately unlike some others I have seen, no names. 
Sorry I couldn't be of any help.
Bertha

Title: Re: Help identifying soldier
Post by: J11 on Monday 26 March 12 08:45 BST (UK)

Thank you very much for taking the time to look, Bertha.  It was very kind of you.