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22-03-2008, 02:30 PM
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You're Top Poster: #22   | Scottish War Memorials For anyone interested in War Memorials in Scotland (or further afield with a Scottish connection) try this site or its sister site which deals with war graves in Scotland. Roxy
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22-03-2008, 03:12 PM
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You're Top Poster: #1 | I've popped over to those sites a couple of times, especially in relation to a mystery to which I still haven't received a satifactory response (from the Council, not the site): Last year a memorial was unveiled for a pilot who crashed and was killed in Cowie. Name: EVERISS, CARLYLE GRAY Initials: C G Nationality: New Zealand Rank: Pilot Officer (Pilot) Regiment/Service: Royal New Zealand Air Force Age: 26 Date of Death: 02/10/1941 Service No: 41318 Additional information: Son of Frederick Everiss, and of Murielle Octavia Everiss (nee Gray), of Gisborne, Auckland, New Zealand; husband of Phyllis Elizabeth Everiss, of Te Kuiti, Auckland. Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead Grave/Memorial Reference: Sec. 1. Grave 19. Cemetery: GRANGEMOUTH (GRANDSABLE) CEMETERY The original story appeared on the BBC site: BBC NEWS | Scotland | Tayside and Central | Villagers salute WWII hero pilot After a bit of digging I found: 58 OTU Roll "Spifire 1a Aircraft on tail chase exercise and went out of control"" However, the mystery is whether his first name was Carlyle or Carlisle. The Scottish War Memorials Project :: View topic - Cowie  However NZPA Images - Cowie-Monument unveiled to WW2 NZ pilot Carlisle Everiss has it as Carlisle.  His entry on the NZ Roll of Honour has Carlyle Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database When I queried this discrepancy with the Council I was fobbed off with the comment that the committee had done their research and were sure they were correct. Hmm, not much of a response. Have you, or any others on the boards had similar issues dealing with local authorities?
__________________ _________________  Beaufighter TF Mark Xs (NV427 'EO-L' nearest) of No. 404 Squadron RCAF based at Dallachy, Morayshire, breaking formation during a flight along the Scottish coast. February 1945. Last edited by Kyt; 22-03-2008 at 04:01 PM. Reason: typo |
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22-03-2008, 04:35 PM
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You're Top Poster: #22 | I have not had any dealings with any councils (yet) but have seen discrepancies between CWGC and other parties (including family headstones). Notably names that may be spelled a number of different ways -Mc or Mac; Stuart or Stewart; Isobel or Isabel etc. The best that I can suggest is to try and find a birth certificate. Roxy
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23-03-2008, 07:16 AM
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__________________ Spidge, ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm |
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