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7 May 2016
Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders - PoW Other Ranks 1914
The following list of 166 NCOs and men from the 1st Battalion, Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders has been transcribed mostly from the Imperial War Museum's collection, specifically items B.O. 2 1/87, B.O. 2 1/88 and B.O. 2 1/89. The last three names on this list are from a Times newspaper's list of repatriated prisoners of war. My full transcription of these names (not reproduced here) also contains home addresses and dates of capture for most of the men.
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6464 Private J Bannatyne, 5662 Private W Beattie, 8922 Corporal A Bell, 6471 Corporal J Boath, 4968 Lance-Corporal W Bond, 8931 Sergeant A Boyd, 6100 Corporal J Brown, 7842 Private A Burgess, 6487 Private D Buttles.
6968 Private A Cameron, 9515 Private W Campbell, 6786 Private C Chapman, 4842 Corporal J Chapman, 5674 Private R Clare, 7103 Private D Clark, 3/5781 Corporal A Cochrane, 9302 Lance-Corporal W Cochrane, 4892 Private J Colquhoun, 7285 Corporal R Cosgrove, 9186 Private P Costello, 5950 Private R Cross.
5508 Lance-Corporal G Darling, 5445 Private J Dickson, 7505 Corporal J Dornan, 6460 Private M Dougall.
7336 Corporal J Eadie
4582 Private J Farquharson, 3/5618 Private F Ferguson, 3/5962 Private D Finlayson,
4991 Private G Forrest, 8749 Sergeant R Forrest, 5409 Private J Fraser, 7079 Private A Fyfe.
6418 Private A Gauld, 5769 Private J Gault, 5382 Private H Gilpin, 5228 Private W Gollan
4996 Private W Grant, 6539 Private James Gray DCM, 4798 Private A Gray, 9532 Private G Greig
8350 Private W Haig, 8857 Private H Hamilton, 6128 Private W Hamilton, 7671 Piper A Henderson, 6640 Private J High, 4907 Private F Hillier.
8254 Private C Jacobs, 7614 Private J Jamieson, 4616 Private S Jeffrey, 8495 Private A Johnstone, 9229 Private D Johnstone
7664 Corporal J Kane, 6070 Private J Kelly, 7023 Private James Kerr, 6056 Private F Kidd.
4941 Private J Laidlaw, 4510 Corporal J Laing, 5120 Private C Lamond, 5579 Private R Law
4391 Private G Lloyd, 8699 Bandsman R G Lovett, 5176 Corporal A Macdonald, 5238 Corporal A Macdonald, 7376 Sergeant C Macdonald, 5155 Private M Macdonald, 9068 Corporal J Mackie, 8758 Corporal T Mackinlay, 3/5642 Private A MacKinnon, 3/5584 Private D MacKinnon, 3/5583 Private M MacKinnon, 3/5676 Private J MacLean, 4785 Piper D Macleod, 3/5039 Private M MacLeod, 5318 Private D MacMillan, 5041 Private D MacSween, 7693 Private J Martin, 6543 Private P McAndrew, 5706 Corporal McBain, 5497 Private D McCormack, 5600 Corporal J McCue, 5238 Corporal A McDonald, 3/5176 Corporal A McDonald, 7376 CQMS C McDonald, 3/5155 Private M McDonald, 5230 Private J McGhee, 4549 Private H McGovern, 8110 Private W McGrath, 3/5259 Private A McInnes, 7198 Private R McKee, 7038 Private A McKenzie, 8758 Corporal T McKinlay, 5843 Private C McKinnon, 4605 Private A McLean, 3/5453 Private R McLellan, 5846 Private J McLelland, 6656 CQMS H McLennan, 4785 Private D McLeod, 5263 Private A McManus, 5318 Private D McMillan, 7284 Corporal A McPherson, 9375 Private D McPhillips, 5689 Private A McQuarrie, 3/5462 Private N McQuien, 5041 Private D McSween, 5354 Private A McVicar, 9447 Private R Miller, 8412 Private T Moffat, 3/5074 Private J Mooney, 3/5291 Private A Morrison, 7067 Private F Morrison, 3/5128 Private J Morrison, 7188 Private R Munro, 9585 Private J Nicholson.
6810 Private W Ogg
7140 Private W Paterson, 6389 Private B Perkins
6199 Private W Quinn
8794 Private J Rankin, 7152 Private J Rankine, 4615 Corporal J Reid, 5945 Private J Reid,
6847 Corporal J Reid, 4615 Lance-Corporal J Reid, 6847 Corporal J Reid, 7654 Private R Ritchie, 5421 Corporal G Robertson, 5833 Private J Robertson, 4602 Corporal T Romanes (above), 8978 Corporal R Rough
3/5679 Private A Salmean, 4574 Private C Sayers, 7608 Private G Scott, 9161 Private R Scott, 4720 Private C Severn, 7494 Private P Shand, 5572 Corporal A Simpson, 5859 Sergeant C Skeet, 4558 Private C Smith, 6732 Private J Smyth, 5180 Lance-Corporal P Sneddon, 6739 Private R Stenhouse, 5701 Private G Stewart, 6732 Private J Stewart, 7207 Private W Struth.
5725 Private T Taylor, 7527 Corporal W Taylor, 6575 Private G Thomson, 4832 Private R Thornton, 5642 Private W Turner.
9526 Private R Walker, 8884 Corporal W Walker, 6173 Private T Wason, 6735 Private A Williamson, 3/2855 Sergeant A Wilson, 5799 Private B Wilson, 6535 Private J Wilson, 5586 Private W Wilson, 6944 Private W Winton, 6032 Private J Wyllie.
4657 Private S York, 5272 Private A Young.
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4 April 2011
In search of Sergeant Newell
A couple of months back I picked up an MM to Sergeant W A Newell of the Royal Fusiliers. There appears to be no surviving service record for this man and so pretty much all I have to go on his campaign medal index card (above) and the reference in the London Gazette to his MM award. The medal index card (MIC) notes that he arrived in France as 1444 Pte William Newell of the Royal Fusiliers on the 1st June 1915. By the time he was discharged to Class Z of the Army Reserve on the 24th February 1919 he was a sergeant, and acting Company Quarter Master Sergeant with the Cameron Highlanders; not a bad record of promotion.
My main intention (apart from reuniting his MM with his trio) is to find out how he won his gallantry award, but at this point in time I don't have a battalion for him. The Supplement to The London Gazette for the 14th September 1916 simply notes, 1444 Cpl W A Newell. So, no battalion, but we can see that he had been promoted by the time he won his MM and we also have another initial for him.
[Update, October 2019. The MM medal index card gives 8th Battalion. The schedule number also indicates that the award was for the period March to May 1916. These awards are non-immediate awards and retrospective awards].
A check through the medal rolls (using the references on his medal index card) revealed nothing on the 1914-15 Star roll, but there was additional information on the British War and Victory Medal roll. Thanks to the information contained there, I now know that he transferred to the 11th Battalion of the Cameron Highlanders, and also that he seemed to be part of a draft of men who all transferred from different regiments (see below).

I checked all the men listed on this page to see if I could ascertain when they transferred to the Cameron Highlanders but could find no surviving service records for any of them. I did however find a pension record for S/49801 Sgt Jonathan Malpas who originally joined the Northumberland Fusiliers on the 9th November 1914 and was transferred to the 11th Battalion, Cameron Highlanders in the Field on the 10th June 1918. So it looks as though that's when Sergeant Newell, and all the men listed with him, were also transferred.
As for Sergeant Newell's original number with the Royal Fusiliers, 1444; at this point in time I find it difficult to pin a precise date to it.
[Update October 2019. He enlisted in August 1914. The number should have had a G/ prefix]
The search continues...
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