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the Royal Highlanders

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Pedigree
Last Edited: 8 May 2022

Military Service

  • Military Service*: The Royal Highlanders William Welsh on 25 March 1890 at Perth, Perthshire, Scotland, , Royal Highlanders; born Arbroath, aged 18 years 4 months, trade tailor, apprenticed for 4 years to Mr Thomson tailor, not married, never imprisoned, willing to serve 12 years; height 5 feet 5 3/4 inches, weight 121 pounds, chest measurement 33 1/4 inches, complexion dark, eyes dark brown, hair black, religious denominarion Presbyterian, distinctive marks blue dots base of left thumb; medically fit; next of kin father William Welsh 82 Helen Street Arbroath; wife Jane.1
  • Military Service: The Royal Highlanders William Welsh between 25 March 1890 and 10 November 1899 home, 9 years 252 days.1
  • Military Service: The Royal Highlanders William Stewart Swan DCM between 30 November 1900 and 29 November 1908.
  • Military Service*: The Royal Highlanders Francis Robert Edward jeweller between 1914 and 1918 Name:      Francis R Edward
    Regiment or Corps:      Black Watch (Royal Highlanders), Gordon Highlanders
    Regimental Number:      5122, 310071
    Other Records:      Search for 'Francis R Edward' in other WWI collections.2
  • Military Service*: The Royal Highlanders William Stewart Swan DCM between 1914 and 1920 DCM
    8038
    Acting Sergeant W Swan, 1st Batallion Royal Highlanders (LG 1 April 1915)
    For Gallant cpnduct at Givenchy when he led three men into a house and capturred five Germans.3,4

Citations

  1. [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].
  2. [S9] Website Ancestry.co.uk (www.ancestry.co.uk) World War 1 Service Medal and Award Rolls 1914-20 [June 2021].
  3. [S47] Ancestry.com Ancestry Public Member Trees, Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date:2006;, Ancestry member RWS Miller1 [Jun 2020].
  4. [S9] Website Ancestry.co.uk (www.ancestry.co.uk) W. Swan UK, Citations of the Distinguished Conduct Medal, 1914-1920
    UK, Citations of the Distinguished Conduct Medal, 1914-1920 for W. Swan [Jun 2020].