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Offline km1971

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« Reply #9 on: Saturday 05 March 16 15:05 GMT (UK) »
From 1914-1918.net:

1/7th Battalion
 August 1914 : in Dalmeny Street, Leith. Part of Lothian Brigade, Scottish Coast Defences.
 24 April 1915 : transferred to 156th (Scottish Rifles) Brigade, 52nd (Lowland) Division.
 A and D Companies were involved in a rail accident at Quintinshill near Gretna on 22 May 1915 while en-route to Liverpool from Larbert in Stirlingshire. 210 men were killed and 224 injured, forming the majority of the 473 casualties of the worst disaster in British railway history.
 Sailed from Liverpool 24 May 1915, going via Egypt to Gallipoli 14 June 1915.
 Returned to Egypt 8 January 1916.
 Moved to France, landing at Marseilles, 17 April 1918.

You should check local newspapers. There is bound to have been a story printed.

CWGC gives his parent's address.

Ken

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« Reply #10 on: Saturday 05 March 16 15:14 GMT (UK) »
Thanks so much

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« Reply #11 on: Saturday 05 March 16 15:17 GMT (UK) »
Looks like it could be the same family at a different address in 1901.
There's a marriage in Brechin 1895 between a George Thomson & Mary Ann Smith.
Warks:Ashford;Cadby;Clarke;Clifford;Cooke Copage;Easthope;
Edmonds;Felton;Colledge;Lutwyche;Mander(s);May;Poole;Withers.
Staffs.Edmonds;Addison;Duffield;Webb;Fisher;Archer
Salop:Easthope,Eddowes,Hoorde,Oteley,Vernon,Talbot,De Neville.
Notts.Clarke;Redfearne;Treece.
Som.May;Perriman;Cox
India Kane;Felton;Cadby
London.Haysom.
Lancs.Gay.
Worcs.Coley;Mander;Sawyer.
Kings of Wessex & Scotland
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« Reply #12 on: Saturday 05 March 16 17:10 GMT (UK) »
If I'm right it works out Adam was born same year

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« Reply #13 on: Saturday 05 March 16 17:12 GMT (UK) »
Ken Iv read the    Quentins Hillstory

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« Reply #14 on: Saturday 05 March 16 17:20 GMT (UK) »
The book "the Quintinshill Conspiracy" by Jack Richards and Adrian Searle is a detailed work on this railway disaster and is well worth reading. I also watched an hour long television programme on this a few months back, presented by Neil Oliver; an excellent programme, but I can't remember which channel it was on.
Sinclair: Lanarkshire & Antrim; McDougall: Bute; Ramsay: Invernesshire; Thomson & Robertson: Perthshire; Brown: Argyll; Scott: Ayrshire: Duff: Fife.

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« Reply #15 on: Saturday 05 March 16 17:40 GMT (UK) »
Garrad (Suffolk, Essex, Somerset), Crocker (Somerset), Vanstone (Devon, Jersey), Sims (Wiltshire), Bridger (Kent)

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« Reply #16 on: Sunday 06 March 16 00:05 GMT (UK) »
Watched it the night it was on
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