Tarradale School Roll of Honour
Attribution: Photo courtesy of Morris Colven
In the September 2014 edition of Muir Matters, the Muir of Ord community magazine, there appeared a copy of the Roll of Honour of the old Tarradale School.
In the article accompanying the photograph it was explained that the original roll is faded with age, making reproduction impossible, but with the aid of modern technology it had been possible to scan, enhance part of the document and retype the names.
The Roll lists 25 ex-pupils of the school who lost their lives in WW1. Four died on the same day, 9 May 1915, at the battle of Aubers Ridge, where the Muir of Ord men were amongst 11,000 British casualties of the day. The first name on the Roll, K Mackenzie, was among 260 men who lost their lives when the cruiser HMS Pathfinder was sunk by a German U-boat off St Abbs Head on 5 September 1914, the first vessel ever to be sunk by a submarine-fired torpedo.
The Roll expands on the information on Muir of Ord War Memorial under the headings Name / Rank / Regiment / Battle / Date / Residence, as follows:
The Roll of Heroes
The Names of
Those who have been connected with
Tarradale Public School
Who have given their lives for their country
Name | Rank | Regiment | Battle | Date | Residence | |
1. | Ken Mackenzie | 1st Cl.P.Officer | HMS Pathfinder | Lost at sea | 5 Sep 1914 | Ord Village |
2. | Peter Cameron | L.Cpl | 1st Cameron Hdrs | Aisne | 11 Sep 1914 | Hilton |
3. | Ken Mackenzie | Private | Cameron Hdrs | Mons | 14 Sep 1914 | Loch-a-Mhoid |
4. | Farquhar Fraser | Private | Scots Guards | Missing | Jan 1915 | Spittal Wood |
5. | Alick Macintosh | Private | 4th Seaforth Hdrs | Neuve Chapelle | 11 Mar 1915 | Muir of Ord |
6. | John D Cameron | L.Cpl | 1st Canadians | Died in Germany (gassed) | 27 Apr 1915 | Muir of Ord |
7. | James Manson | Private | 4th Seaforth Hdrs | Aubers Ridge | 9 May 1915 | Ord Village |
8. | Lewis Lisle | Sgt | 4th Seaforth Hdrs | Aubers Ridge | 9 May 1915 | Milton |
9. | Hugh F Macdonald | Sgt | 1/4th Seaforth Hdrs | Aubers Ridge | 9 May 1915 | Ord Village |
10. | Ian Cameron | Private | 4th Seaforth Hdrs | Aubers Ridge | 9 May 1915 | Ord Arms Hotel |
11. | Donald Mackenzie | Sgt | 7th Camerons | Loos | 25 Sep 1915 | Muir of Tarradale |
12. | Don Mackenzie | Cpl | Cameron Hdrs | 13 Oct 1915 | Loch-a-Mhoid | |
13. | Donald Tuach | Gunner | Bute Mt. Battery | Died Catterick Compound | 23 Oct 1916 | Ardarroch |
14. | William Macphail | Private | 4th Seaforth Hdrs | Beaumont Hamel | 16 Nov 1916 | Balvraid |
15. | Duncan Macdonald | Sgt | 4th Seaforth Hdrs | Arras | 9 April 1917 | Gowanfield |
16. | John Barron | L.Cpl | 2nd Seaforth Hdrs | Arras | 11 April 1917 | Ord Distillery |
17. | James E Macleod | Private | Royal Flying Corps | France | 23 June 1917 | Ord Village |
18. | John Maclean | Sgt | 2nd Seaforth Hdrs | Ypres | 6 Oct 1917 | Ardnagrask |
19. | Duncan R Innes | Private | 4th Seaforth Hdrs | Cambrai | 22 Nov 1917 | Ben View |
20. | Thomas Mackenzie | Sgt | 1st Scots Guards | Ypres | 29 Nov 1917 | Caberfeidh |
21. | Duncan Barron | Private | 6th Cameron Hdrs | in France | 21 Mar 1918 | Ord Distillery |
22. | John Mackenzie | Sgt MM and Bar Croix de Guerre | 6th Cameron Hdrs | 21 May 1918 | Loch-a-Mhoid | |
23. | John Macleod | Private | HL Infantry | Malaria Mesopotamia | 6 July 1918 | Broomhill |
24. | Kenneth W Mackay | Private | Black Watch | 24 Oct 1918 | Burnside | |
25. | William Taylor | Private | HL Infantry | Died in Germany | 5 Nov 1918 | Market Stance |