12294 Sgt Francis Carson, 9th Bn Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)

12294 Sergeant Francis Carson of the 9th Battalion Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) died of wounds on the 4th December 1915. He was 24 years old, the son of Mr. W. B. Carson, of 5, Waverley Place, Bothwell, Glasgow. He is buried in Maple Copse Cemetery.

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.

Sources:

Ancestry (MIC)
Soldiers Died in The Great War
Army Service Numbers
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission

Lt Frank Lipp, 2nd Bn, Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)

Lieutenant Frank Lipp of the 2nd Battalion, Cameronians (Scottish Rifles), died of wounds on the 30th May 1916. At the time of his death he was attached to the 8th Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers. Frank was 24 years old at the time of his death. He was the son of James and Eliza Mary Lipp of La Perouse, Fochabers, Morayshire. He died at the station hospital in Karachi and was buried in the Karachi Cemetery (now Pakistan but at that time, part of India). He is commemorated on the Delhi Memorial (India Gate).

Frank's medal index card indicates that he first arrived overseas at Gallipoli on the 23rd October 1915. At that stage he was a second lieutenant. He later transferred to the RWF. The address given on his MIC is "J Lipp Esq, Hadlow House, Fochabers, Scotland." Today, Hadlow House at 22 The Square, Fochabers, is an antiques' shop.

Frank's brother, Vernon Robertson Lipp, also died during the First World War. He was a second lieutenant serving with the 5th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers, but attached to the 12th Battalion. He was 26 years old when he was killed in action on the 17th June 1916. He is buried in Berks Cemetery Extension in Belgium. Vernon's medal index card gives his wife's address at Lorne Grove, Radcliffe-on-Trent, Nottingham. She was Elsie C Thompson and the couple's marriage was registered at Lincoln in the June quarter of 1916. Thus Elsie was a wife and a widow within the space of three months.

Frank and Vernon Lipp both appear on the 1901 Scotland census as visitors - along with many others - at the Invercauld Arms in Glenmuick, Aberdeenshire. The boys' ages are noted as nine and eleven respectively. Together in 1901, fate would see them die within three weeks of each other in the service of their King and Country, fifteen years later.

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.

Sources:

Ancestry (MIC)
Soldiers Died in The Great War
Army Service Numbers
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission

240068 Cpl Walter Bulloch, 5/6th Cameronians

240068 Corporal Walter Bulloch of the 5/6th Cameronians (Scottish Rifles), was killed in action on the 21st May 1917. He was one of 440 British Army officers and men to die on this date.

Walter was born in Dalziell, Lanarkshire and enlisted at Motherwell. His medal index card indicates that he was serving with the 6th Battalion, Scottish Rifles, and that his original number was 1328. This in turn dates his enlistment to around February 9th 1911, give or take a day or so. He arrived in France - as a lance-corporal - on the 20th March 1915 and had therefore been on active service for over two years at the time of his death.

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission notes that Walter was 24 years old, the son of William and Catherine Bulloch of 42 Quarry Street, Knowetop, Motherwell, Lanarkshire. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Arras Memorial. The 5/6th Battalion was created in May 1916 when the 1/5th and the 1/6th Battalions merged.

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.

Sources:

Ancestry (MIC)
Soldiers Died in The Great War
Army Service Numbers
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission

9482 Pte Patrick Shegog, 2nd Bn, Cameronians

9482 Private Patrick Shegog of the 2nd Battalion, Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) was killed in action on the 24th October 1916. He had been in France since 5th November 1914 and was probably a career soldier who had originally joined the battalion in 1907 or 1908.

Patrick Shegog was born in Govan and enlisted at Glasgow. He was 28 years old at the time of his death and is buried in Sucrerie Military Cemetery at Colincamps on the Somme.

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.

Sources:

Ancestry.co.uk (MIC, WO363)
Army Ancestry
Army Service Numbers 1881-1918
Commonwealth War Graves Commission