ROUSAY WAR MEMORIAL

Details of the World War dead listed on the Rousay War Memorial, with corrections, unit numbers or ships and date of death added:

1914 – 1918

Capt. A. GRAHAM SPARK, M.C. Manse, 9th K.O.Y.L.I., 9th April 1917, age 28.

Pte. JAMES BEWS Maeness, Egilshay, 2nd Seaforths, 6th May 1917, age 20.

Pte. GEORGE CRAIGIE Triblo, 74th Battalion, Machine Gun Corps, 21st September 1918, age 19.

Pte. JOHN CRAIGIE Bu, Viera, 1/4th Seaforths, between 23rd and 24th April 1917, age 30.

Pte. JOHN CRAIGIE Ploverhall, 14th (Labour) Cameronians Seaforths, 1st May 1917, age 27.

Pte. DAVID FLAWS Hammerfield, 2nd Seaforths, 11th April 1917, age 20.

Pte. L/Cpl. ALFRED GIBSON Langskaill, 7th Seaforths, 12th October 1916, age 40.

Pte. ALFRED G. GIBSON Avelshay, 130th Field Company, R.E., 16th February 1916, age 21.

Pte. HUGH GIBSON Oldman, 7th Seaforths, 2nd May 1918, age 18.

L/Cpl. Pte. JOHN DAVID GRIEVE Falldown, 1/4th Seaforths, 20th November 1917, age 28.

L/Cpl. GEORGE INKSTER, D.C.M. Knapper, Princess Patricia’s C.L.I., C.E.F., 17th July 1916, age 35.

Pte. JOHN A.M. INKSTER Essaquoy, 4th (Reserve) Seaforths, 1st July 1918, age 18.

Pte. JOHN LOGIE Grindlesbreck, 1/6th Gordons, 22nd November 1916, age 36.

Engr. ISAAC MARWICK Essaquoy, M.M., S.S. Southford, 25th February 1916, age 59.

Pte. JOHN H. MARWICK Quoys, 58th Battalion, Machine Gun Corps, 7th September 1918, age 21.

Pte. DAVID MUNRO Old School, 15th H.L.I., 17th March 1916, age 28.

Pte. HARRY REID Brough, 3rd Seaforths, 14th May 1917, age 23.

Pte. EDWARD SEATTER Banks, Seaforths, 8th/10th Gordons, 21st April 1917, age 19.

1939 – 1945

L/Sjt. JOHN S. GIBSON Hullion, 2nd Seaforths, 11th September 1944, age 25.

Signalman THOMAS WALLS Store Cottage, 18th Division Signals, 6th July 1945, age 25.

L.A.M. JAMES S. MAINLAND Weyland, Fleet Air Arm, HMS Dasher, 27th March 1943, age 24.

Sgt. Pilot ROBERT M. MAINLAND Essaquoy, 605 Squadron RAF, 25th April 1940, age 23.

Born on Rousay, not listed on any Orkney war memorial

Cpl. JOHN THOMSON Forth RGA, 17th March 1915, age 28.