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Military Service

Military Service*: The Black Watch John Leighton Findlay black watch __ ___ 1914 - 24/10/1918.¹
Military Service*: The Black Watch William Welsh on 15 July 1898 appointed Black Watch 2.²
Military Service*: The Black Watch William Paterson between 1939 and 1945 in India.³
Military Service*: The Black Watch Thomas Renwick Swanley Paterson in 1940 He joined the Black Watch in 1940 and took his commission in the Royal Artillery in 1942.⁴
Military Service: The Black Watch Donald Fraser between 1940 and 1945 Army.⁵

Citations

[S31] Website Commonwealth War Graves Commission (http://www.cwgc.org/) [Aug 2008].
[S54] Website findmypast.co.uk (www.findmypast.co.uk) British Army Service Records 1760-1915 Transcription URL of this page: http://search.findmypast.co.uk/record?id=gbm%2fwo97%2f6204%2f1062389 [April 2016].
[S40] CPT via email [Jun 2020].
[S40] Newspaper cutting from CPT [July 2011].
[S47] Ancestry.com Ancestry Public Member Trees, Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date:2006;, DLM [April 2017].