Clatt War Memorial

1914-1919

 

If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

John McCrae, Ypres, Belgium 1915

 

Casualties listed on Clatt War Memorial 1914-1919

Details taken from Commonwealth War Graves Commission records.

The details in brackets ( ....) is additional information from my own research.
b = born, e = enlisted, DOW = died of wounds, POW = prisoner of war, KIA = killed in action

1914 -1 casualty
1915 - 1 casualty
1916 - 0 casualties
1917 - 4 casualties
1918 - 1 casualties
1919 - 0 casualties

Total casualties = 7

 

WILLIAM ALEXANDER ANDERSON
(b Leslie, e Aberdeen on 25th Jan 1916, placed in the Army Reserve. He was mobilized on 11th Dec 1916 and arrived at Le Havre, France on 11th August 1917 and to Guards Division Base Depot at nearby Harfleur. Joined 2nd battalion in the field on 21st August. Reported missing in action on 12th October 1917. He was qualified as as Lewis Gunner)
Private
16295
2nd Bn., Scots Guards

who died on
Friday 12 October 1917 . Age 20 .

Additional Information: Son of Mr. and Mrs. Anderson, of Auchmenzie, Clatt, Aberdeenshire.

Cemetery: TYNE COT MEMORIAL Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Grave or Reference Panel Number: Panel 10

 

WILLIAM HOME
( b 6/12/1887, Tullynessle, e Edinburgh, landed France 14 Aug 1914)

Corporal
7465
1st Bn., Cameron Highlanders

who died on
Monday 14 September 1914 .

Cemetery: LA FERTE-SOUS-JOUARRE MEMORIAL, Seine-et-Marne, France

 

THOMAS MCGILLIVRAY CRAN
( b Strathdon, e Muswellbrook, NSW, DOW -13th Gen Hosp, Boulogne - injured due to accidental explosion
of ammunition dump at Ploegsteert Wood on 1st June)

Corporal
734
9th Bty., Australian Trench Mortar Battery

who died on
Tuesday 12 June 1917 . Age 32.

Additional Information: Son of Elizabeth Cran, 36 Clifton Road, Aberdeen. AIF records, next of kin, mother.

Cemetery: BOULOGNE EASTERN CEMETERY, Pas de Calais, France
Grave or Reference Panel Number: IV. A. 1.

 

William Bruce ANDERSON
(b Kennethmont, e Huntly Oct 1914, FS at Leith Hall, killed by sniper,
full details Kennethmont memorial, link at foot of page)

Private
11524
1st/6th Bn., Gordon Highlanders

who died on
Tuesday 29 June 1915 . Age 24 .

Additional Information: Son of William and Elsie Anderson, of Muirs of Seggieden, Kennethmont, Aberdeenshire.

Cemetery: GUARDS CEMETERY, WINDY CORNER, CUINCHY, Pas de Calais, France
Grave or Reference Panel Number: I. G. 5.

 

ALEXANDER WRIGHT
(b Clatt, e Huntly, previously 11962, landed France 2 Dec 1915)

Lance Corporal
266179
6th Bn., Gordon Highlanders

who died on
Tuesday 31 July 1917 . Age 24 .

Additional Information: Son of George and Elsie Wright, of Hardgate, Clatt, Kennethmont, Aberdeenshire; husband of Edith Wright, of Old Upper Towie, Botriphnie, Keith.

Cemetery: YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Grave or Reference Panel Number: Panel 38

 

DUFF TAYLOR
( b Clatt, e Turriff, gardener at Delgaty Castle, joined 3 GH and transferred when in France to 6th,
Served in France, missing and presumed KIA)

Corporal
S/14152
6th Bn., Gordon Highlanders

who died on
Thursday 11 April 1918 . Age 20 .

Additional Information: Son of George and Isabella Douglas Taylor, of Sowiefoot Clatt, Kennethmont, Aberdeenshire.

Cemetery: LOOS MEMORIAL, Pas de Calais, France
Grave or Reference Panel Number: Panel 115 to 119

 

GEORGE RITCHIE
(b Clatt, previously 12198, 6th GH attached to 8/10th, e Insch, listed wounded in Scotsman 26 May 1917, listed missing 19 Sept 1917)

Private
266328
8th/10th Bn., Gordon Highlanders

who died on
Tuesday 31 July 1917 .

Additional Information: Son of George and Eliza Ritchie, Towie, Clatt, Aberdeenshire.

Cemetery: YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Grave or Reference Panel Number: Panel 38

 

1939-1945

Casualties listed on Clatt War Memorial 1939 -1945

 

1939 - 0 casualties
1940 - 0 casualties
1941 - 0 casualties
1942 - 1 casualty
1943 - 1 casualty
1944- 2 casualty

Total casualties = 4

 

KENNETH GEORGE PETRIE
(POW Burma Railway, KIA at sea whilst a POW (no 5549) on the Japanese transport ship Hofuku Maru
en route from Manila to Japan, sunk by American aircraft , 1047 POWs lost, no known grave)

Private
2884113
2nd Bn., Gordon Highlanders

who died between
Tuesday 1 August and Thursday 31 August 1944 . Age 26 .

Additional Information: Son of Jane McKenzie, of Forest Hill Clatt, Aberdeenshire.

Cemetery: SINGAPORE MEMORIAL, Singapore
Grave or Reference Panel Number: Column 80.

 

GEORGE REID
( Air Gunner, Lancaster bomber LM 459, flew from RAF Ludford Magna, Lincolnshire in support of raid
on German military base at Bourg-Leopold, Belgium, crashed near Sommelsdijk / Middelharnis, all crew killed )

Sergeant
3020819
101 Sqdn., Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

who died on
Sunday 28 May 1944 . Age 20 .

Additional Information: Son of Simon and Helen Reid, of Tillyangus, Clatt, Aberdeenshire.

Cemetery: SOMMELSDIJK GENERAL CEMETERY, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
Grave or Reference Panel Number: Coll. grave 29-32.

( George Reid's headstone at Sommelsdijk Cemetery
courtesy of Dennis Notenboom, Goeree-Overflakkee, Netherlands )

 

JOHN MANN

Gunner
894113
126 Field Regt., Royal Artillery

who died on
Saturday 24 October 1942 . Age 25 .

Additional Information: Son of Adam and Margaret Mann, of Clatt, Aberdeenshire.

Cemetery: EL ALAMEIN WAR CEMETERY, Egypt
Grave or Reference Panel Number: XI. B. 24.

 

** (see note at foot of page)

JONATHAN HENDERSON
(2nd Gordons, transferred to C of MP 19 May 1941, died while a POW at Camp 6 ( Kanchanaburi ), Burma Railway)

Lance Corporal
2876372
Corps of Military Police
Singapore Fortress Provost Coy

who died on
Wednesday 28 July 1943. Age 31

Additional Information: Son of Alexander and Margaret Anderson Henderson , of Kennethmont, Aberdeenshire

Cemetery: KANCHANABURI WAR CEMETERY, Thailand         
Grave or Reference Panel Number: 2. J. 15.

 

THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE

These details were placed on the Internet on 20th June 2004
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Links to more local war memorials

Kennethmont

Rhynie & Kearn

Gartly

Drumblade

Forgue

Leslie

**The image of L./Cpl. Jonathan Henderson appears here by kind permission of the Gordon Highlanders Museum

This web page is dedicated to the men of Clatt, who at the call of King and Country left all that was dear to them, endured hardness, faced danger, and finally passed out of the sight of man by the path of duty and self sacrifice, giving up their own lives that others might live in freedom.

Let those who come after see to it that their names be not forgotten.