Sergeant David Taylor Adams was killed in a Lockheed Hudson Mk VI accident on 7 January 1943 during take-off from RAF Takoradi in Ghana, West Africa. He was from 10 Keir Street, Bridgend, Perth, the son of Mr and Mrs D T Adams and was a wireless air gunner with […]
Inter-war Period: H Craigdaillie Private d. 29/1/1921 Royal Army Medical Corps JFD O 143 W. Dobbie Private d. 14/8/1921 Highland Light Infantry 51st Battalion JFD O 143 James Pearson Sapper d. 8/4/1920 Royal Engineers Wireless Section P2 I 329 Other Military Personnel: Robert Brown Fleet Engineer d. 29/8/1902 Royal Navy […]
Wellshill Cemetery was chosen as a Polish war grave cemetery during the Second World War. Some 380 Polish war graves are situated there (about 50 per cent of all Polish war graves in Scotland) of which 354 Polish casualties are recorded by the Register of Commonwealth War Graves: Army (339) […]
There are around 170,000 Commonwealth war graves in the UK, 20,000 north of the border. Sections Additional Parochial AP Commonwealth CW Jeanfield Section JFD Parochial 1 P1 Parochial 2 P2 Wellshill Section WS E.g. P2 M 393 – section Parochial 2 area M lair 393 Second World War 1939-1947 The […]
St John’s Kirk (Kirk of the Holy Cross of St John the Baptist) – St. John Street – Upon this site a church has stood since the 12th Century. Perth’s other(older) name St John’s toun is derived from this church of St John. The local football team still retains this […]
Henry Home, Lord Kames (1696-1782) – A Lord of Session and antiquarian, Lord Kames was also a land reformer, improving the Blair Drummond estates. Buried at Kincardine kirkyard (NS 719988).
James Bonar (1852-1941) Economist. Born at Collace (Perthshire), a son of the manse, James Bonar was raised in the Free Church. Bonar was educated at the academy in Glasgow before going up to that city’s university. At university, Bonar excelled, won many prizes and came out with a first-class MA in […]
Winifred Anna Cavendish-Bentinck (1863-1954) avian rights activist was born at Murthly Castle. In 1889, Winifed Anna Dallas-Yorke married the sixth duke of Portland and became well known in society circles. A few years after her marriage, Cavendish-Bentinck, now a duchess, threw herself into bird protection activity campaigning against the use of […]
John Proudfoot Stratton surgeon and government official, was born at Caputh by Dunkeld in 1830. He began an apprenticeship with a Dr Ingham of North Shields in 1840 and by 1855 had attained the degrees of BM and MD from the University of Aberdeen. As a medical student, Stratton was exceptional […]
Thomas Smeaton (1536-1583) theologian born at Gask. Educated firstly in Perth and then at St Salvator’s College (St Andrews) where he stayed as a regent until ousted during the Reformation. With several other members of St Andrews, Smeaton travelled to Paris where he worked at the university. In Paris, Smeaton […]
