Guest Pete Wood Posted 25 January , 2004 Share Posted 25 January , 2004 Name: HARDIE, DAVID Initials: D Nationality: United Kingdom Rank: Private Regiment: Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) Unit Text: 1st Bn. Date of Death: 25/01/1915 Service No: 8133 Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead Grave/Memorial Reference: Panels 24 to 26 Cemetery: LE TOURET MEMORIAL Born and enlisted in Kirriemuir, Forfarshire Killed in Action I was with the Black Watch for two years, in Berlin. So I shall look forward to hearing more about this man and the red hackles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
christine liava'a Posted 25 January , 2004 Share Posted 25 January , 2004 Historical Information: The Memorial in Le Touret Military Cemetery, Richebourg-l'Avoue, is one of those erected by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission to record the names of the officers and men who fell in the Great War and whose graves are not known. It serves the area enclosed on the North by the river Lys and a line drawn from Estaires to Fournes, and on the South by the old Southern boundary of the First Army about Grenay; and it covers the period from the arrival of the II Corps in Flanders in 1914 to the eve of the Battle of Loos. It does not include the names of officers and men of Canadian or Indian regiments; they are found on the Memorials at Vimy and Neuve-Chapelle. No. of Identified Casualties: 13377 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcolm Posted 25 January , 2004 Share Posted 25 January , 2004 David Hardie will also be commemorated in The Golden Book of Perth which is in St John's Church, Perth. I have been there four times recently to photograph it but th Church ( normally open) is closed while they dig up the road outside. I WILL get back there sometime soon and I'll add Pvt Hardie's inscription to my photo list. ( The author J M Barrie - Peter Pan - was from Kirriemuir) Aye Malcolm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeppoSapone Posted 25 January , 2004 Share Posted 25 January , 2004 ( The author J M Barrie - Peter Pan - was from Kirriemuir) Aye Malcolm And the song!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Hill 60 Posted 25 January , 2004 Share Posted 25 January , 2004 According to SDGW there were 56 ORs killed in action on the same day, but no officers. Incidently, SDGW also shows that there were 6 David Hardies killed in action in the war, all from Scottish regiments (and all from Scotland). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Pete Wood Posted 25 January , 2004 Share Posted 25 January , 2004 I'm more of an 'Easterner' so I don't have that many books on the Western Front. But I do know that this was the 'First Action of Givenchy'. Can anyone add more info on this action....? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terry Denham Posted 25 January , 2004 Share Posted 25 January , 2004 It does not include the names of officers and men of Canadian or Indian regiments; they are found on the Memorials at Vimy and Neuve-Chapelle. Oddly enough this is not quite true. The Le Touret Memorial bears the names of 13376 UK casualties and one from the Indian Army - why, I don't know as yet! Possibly he was on attachment to a UK unit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sue Light Posted 25 January , 2004 Share Posted 25 January , 2004 Le Touret Cemetery and Memorial Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sue Light Posted 25 January , 2004 Share Posted 25 January , 2004 And one of the colonnades Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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