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Aberdeenshire / Re: LAMOND 1901
« on: Monday 16 September 13 18:06 BST (UK)  »
Hi Nome78.
I have not had a serious look into my family history, but I hope to get the time to do that in the near future. I don't have any information about Robert, and there are no photographs of him that I am aware of. I knew nothing of him until my mother asked me to look for his grave. I have only just discovered a photo of my grandfather William S Greig with my grandmother Barbara Ann and my mother. It.s the only photo of him I have ever seen.

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Aberdeenshire / Re: LAMOND 1901
« on: Sunday 15 September 13 14:02 BST (UK)  »
Several years ago, my mother asked if I could find out where Robert Lamond was buried. All that she could tell me was that he was killed in Crete during WW2. The only reference I could find was private 4952 Robert Lamond of the New Zealand Infantry who was killed in action on 20/05/1941 and is mentioned on face 13 of the Athens memorial, I could not find a grave. However the New Zealand connection made me abandon this search, I had  assumed that I was looking a soldier in a Scottish regiment. 

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Aberdeenshire / Re: LAMOND 1901
« on: Wednesday 15 February 12 18:09 GMT (UK)  »
Yes, you have the correct date for my mothers birth. I did know that it was Fiona you were acting for. I am Fiona's cousin Robbie.

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Aberdeenshire / Re: LAMOND 1901
« on: Monday 13 February 12 23:04 GMT (UK)  »
William Shearer Greig.
During world war 1 he was a private in the 1st Gordon Highlanders (Number 8733 ) and must have been held as a prisoner of war, because I have a letter from King George, dated 1918, on Buckingham Palace notepaper, which welcomes him home on his release.

I know that during the early 1930's he was a fIreman on a steam drifter.

He died on active service during world war 2 and I found the following information on the war graves commission web site

William Shearer Greig
Rank:  Engineman
Service Number:  LT/KX103192
Date of Death: 18/09/1944
Age: 58
Regiment/Service: Royal Naval Patrol Service
Grave Reference:  Sec P. Grave 22
Cemetery: Peterhead Cemetery (Constitution Street)
Additional Information: Son of Alexander and Annie Greig : Husband of Barbara Ann Greig of Peterhead

War Memorial Inscription (St Peters) Greig William S.  Royal Navy Petty Officer
War Memorial Inscription (Drill hall)  Greig P/O William S. R.N.

My mother was Jane (known as Jean) Lawrie Greig, the daughter of William and Barbara Ann Greig She married William Robert Cordiner, in Peterhead in 1956.

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Aberdeenshire / Re: LAMOND, TARBITON, GREIG
« on: Monday 13 February 12 22:35 GMT (UK)  »
I have some additional information regarding my grandfather William Shearer Greig. During world war 1 he was a private in the 1st Gordon Highlanders (Number 8733 )and must have been held as a prisoner of war, because I have a letter from King George, dated 1918, on Buckingham Palace notepaper, which welcomes him home on his release.

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Aberdeenshire / Re: LAMOND 1901
« on: Sunday 12 February 12 20:10 GMT (UK)  »
My grandmother Barbara Ann Tarbitton was born on 23/10/1900

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Aberdeenshire / Re: LAMOND, TARBITON, GREIG
« on: Sunday 12 February 12 19:18 GMT (UK)  »
My Grandfarher, William Shearer Greig, died on active service during world war 2, long before I was born, so I know very little about him. I found the following information in the commonwealth war graves web site.

William Shearer Greig
Rank:  Engineman
Service Number:  LT/KX103192
Date of Death: 18/09/1944
Age: 58
Regiment/Service: Royal Naval Patrol Service
(The information above is also on his gravestone)
Grave Reference:  Sec P. Grave 22
Cemetery: Peterhead Cemetery (Constitution Street)
Additional Information: Son of Alexander and Annie Greig : Husband of Barbara Ann Greig of Peterhead.

I have been told that the following inscriptions are on the Peterhead war memorials, although I have not seen them
War Memorial Inscription (St Peters cemetary) Greig, William S.  Royal Navy Petty Officer
War Memorial Inscription (Drill hall)  Greig, P/O William S. R.N.

I do know that he was employed as the fireman on a steam drifter, during the 1930's

I believe, my grandmother, Barbara Ann Greig (Tarbitton). was his second wife. She lived at 9 Hanover St Peterhead from the late 1920's or early 1930's until her death in the 1980's

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