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Armed Forces.

by Seaboard History Editor | May 23, 2017 | People, People of the Seaboard Villages

Andrew Vass, 1 Mid Street, Shandwick, Killed in Action, December 1914.
Findlay McFadyen Ross MC, son of John Ross, Missionary, Killed in Action, 1st August 1918.
Kenneth McRae DCM, MM and Bar, Canadians, Killed In Action, WW1.

David Ross, Worcesters, son of Andrew M. Ross, Balintore, Killed in Action, WW1.
Robert Ross, Seaforth Highlanders and Machine Gun Corp,Killed in Action, WW1.
James Roderick Watt, Pioneer Corp. Killed in Action, WW1.

Sutherland Munro MM, Canadians, WW1.
Archie McRae, Canadians, WW1.
Murdo McRae DCM, Seaforth Highlanders and Machine Corp. WW1.

Ewan McRae, Seaforth Highlanders, WW1.
John Ross, Seaforth Highlanders, WW1.
Jack Skinner, 4 Shore Street, Balintore, WW1.

Finlay MacLeod, Fife and Forfarshire Yeomanry, WW1.
William Ross, RAFVR, Killed in Action, WW2.
P/O William Ross RAFVR. Lost on operations 10 July 1942.

Robert [Robba] Ross, RAFVR. WW2.
Dan Ross [Danna], RAFVR, WW2.
James Oliver [ Jimmack ]. Landed with his regiment ahead of the troops on D-Day. He was part of a team that cleared the mines on the beaches.

David Erskine, BEM, Royal Engineers, awarded the British Empire Medal for helping to pull a Canadian pilot out of a burning plane just after D-Day in Normandy.
Jackie MacRae, 2nd Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders. WW2.
Jackie MacRae’s Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders, WW2.

Jackie MacRae, 2nd Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders, WW2.
Grace McWilliam [Munro], Scottish Ambulance Service, Aberdeen, WW2.
Katie Ross, Hilton, RAF, WW2

Jean May, RAF, WW2, daughter of Catherine Sutherland Wood [May]
Nan Ross, Steel Cottage, Fearn. WW2.
Nan Ross, Steel Cottage, Fearn. Belgium 1945.

David Ross, RAF
Hugh Mackenzie, 5 John Street, Balintore. Killed in an accident in Austria while serving with the Royal Engineers in 1946
Jackie Ross, Hilton, National Service, 1949.

Robbie Vass. National Service.
Frank Ross, National Service.
George Oliver and Donald Bain, National Service.

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