Lives of the First World War

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ID: 1745051

Reference: WO372/7

Title: Medal Index Card

Description: Medal index cards were created by the Army Medal Office towards the end of the First World War. They record the medals that men and women who served in the First World War were entitled to claim.

URL: http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/SearchUI/Details?uri=D2733951
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UPP: GBM/MCI/1747164

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 6175571

Title: Captain Robert Scott Findlay

Description: This is a picture of Captain Scott as it appears in the Harrow School Memorial Book

Connected by: Arthur27276

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ID: 6175575

Title: Captain Robert Scott Findlay

Description: Obituary Captain R.S.Findlay

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Additional: In Memory of Captain ROBERT SCOTT FINDLAY9th Bn., Argyll and Sutherland Highlanderswho died age 28on 22 May 1915Son of Robert Elmsall Findlay and Jane Cecila Louise Findlay, of Boturich Castle, Balloch, Dumbartonshire. Born at Glasgow.Remembered with honourBOTURICH CASTLE PRIVATE CEMETERY Commemorated in perpetuity bythe Commonwealth War Graves Commission

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ID: 6626859

Reference: 1891gbc

Title: 1891 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription

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UPP: GBC/1891/0035088444

Additional: Name age and birthplace match

Credit: © General Register Office

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ID: 6626861

Reference: wwisd

Title: Soldiers died in the Great War 1914-1919 Transcription

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UPP: GBM/WWISD/1039430

Additional: Name and date of death match

Credit: © Naval and Military Press Ltd

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ID: 7090032

Reference: CWGCCASUALIWM

Title: Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) Casualty Records

Description: The Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) commemorate First World War servicemen and women and members of some civilian organisations who died before 31 August 1921 while in Commonwealth military service or of causes attributable to service.

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URL: http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2752881/
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UPP: GBM/CWGCCASUALIWM/965989

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Credit: © Commonwealth War Graves Commission

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ID: 8486186

Name: 1915; Parish of Gretna; Page 21; Entry 62.

Title: Statutory Death Register (Scotland)

Description: Robert Scott Findlay; (Captain 1/9th Battalion Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders); Single; Died 1915, May 22nd about 6.45 a.m. on the Caledonian Railway near to Quintins Hill Signal Cabin (usual residence Boturich Castle, Balloch, Dumbartonshire); Male; Age 28 years; Father: Robert Elmsall Findlay, Merchant & Landed Proprietor; Mother: Jane Cecilia Louise Findlay, m.s. Scott; Cause of Death: Railway Collision; Informant: Joseph Coupland Police Constable; Registered 1915, June 3rd at Gretna.

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ID: 8486188

Title: List of those involved in the Gretna Rail Disaster

Description: List of people involved in the Quintinshill rail disaster on 22nd May 1915 includes ... Findlay, Robert Scott; Captain, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders; Boturich Castle, Balloch; Killed.

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URL: http://www.military-researcher.co.uk/GretnaList.html
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ID: 8529538

Title: Quintinshill Roll of Honour

Description: List of all those who lost their lives in the Quintinshill Railway Disaster of Saturday 22nd May1915.

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URL: http://www.scotsman.me.uk/Newsletters/Amended_Quintinshill_Roll.pdf
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ID: 9201699

Name: Harrow memorials of the great war, vol. 2, pg 61

Title: Harrow Memorials: Captain R S Findlay

Description: Entry in "Harrow memorials of the great war"

Connected by: Hannah21187

URL: https://archive.org/stream/harrowmemorialso02warn#page/n59/mode/2up
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