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The
War Memorial in the Parish Church, Eccles (Scottish Borders)
Photo : Scottish War Memorials Project in the Imperial War Museum's Register
of War Memorials website
The War Memorial in the Parish Church, Eccles (Scottish Borders) is a paper Roll of Honour in a wooden frame.
15 names are commemorated as having lost their lives in the First World War, and 14 in the Second World War.
1 soldier who served with the Yorkshire Regiment is commemorated on this memorial.
Lieutenant John Halliday. 2nd Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Son
of John and Catherine Halliday, of Eccles Mains, Kelso, Roxburghshire. Killed
8 May 1918. Aged 26.
Commemorated on Panels 44 and 45, LOOS MEMORIAL.
The following biographical information is from Robert
Coulson's Biographies of Yorkshire Regiment Officers Killed in the First
World War;-
"Scotsman John Halliday was born at Edenmouth on July 8th 1892.
He served in the ranks of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders and then with
the Yorkshires from July 1915.
He was wounded at Hulloch during the Battle of Loos in September of 1915 and
then saw action on the Somme in 1916 and Vimy Ridge in the spring of 1917.
He was then gazetted and joined the 2nd Battalion on May 2nd 1918 in the Ypres
Salient at Ouderdom.
2nd Lt Halliday spent just six days as an Officer with the battalion being
listed as missing and wounded in action near Dickebusche Lake. He was never
seen again losing his life on May 8th 1918 at the age of 26.
His name is remembered today on the Loos Memorial at Dud Corner on the Bethune
to Lens road.
2nd Lt John Halliday was the son of John and Catherine Halliday of Eccles
Mains, Kelso in Roxburghshire."
The
Parish Church, Eccles (Scottish Borders)
Photo © Copyright James
Denham and licensed for reuse under this Creative
Commons Licence.
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