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The Waugh Family
An historical and photographic perspective

Passchendaele Mud, 1917
Passchendaele Mud, 1917

1914 - 1918
Soldiers of the First World War
TO LIVE IN THE HEART OF THOSE YOU LEAVE BEHIND IS NOT TO DIE

We Remember

In Flanders Fields

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved, and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders Fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders Fields.

- John McCrae

* Commemorated in Perpetuity By The Commonwealth War Graves Commission *

Aimer Family	Hunter Family
Bell Family
Orr Family	Waugh Family
Russell Family	Waugh Family

Soldiers of the First World War

George Vernon Aimer

Second Lieutenant George Vernon Aimer
Royal Flying Corps, New Zealand

New Zealand Airman Killed, George Vernon Aimer, June 20, 1916
See original article

Renwick William Hunter Anderson

Lieutenant Renwick William Hunter Anderson
Canadian Infantry, 10th Battalion
Photo from Hunter Family Tree on ancestry.com

Attestation Papers & Service File

George Cassidy, Jr.

Private George Cassidy
Royal Air Force
Attestation Papers & Service File

Private George Cassidy
2nd row, 2nd from left

Sandford E. Cheever, Jr.

Second Lieutenant Sandford E. Cheever, Jr.
19th Liverpool Machine Gun Corps

Jack Drury

Sergeant Jack Drury and Jean Hunter c 1918

Sergeant Edmund Fairweather
Canadian Infantry, 99th Battalion
Fairweather Family Tree, ancestry.com

Edmund Fairweather

Sergeant Edmund Fairweather
Canadian Infantry, 99th Battalion
Fairweather Family Tree, ancestry.com

Attestation Papers & Service File

Norman William Johnson

Norman William Johnson & Williamina Lumsden
Gunner, Field Artillery, New Zealand 7th Reinforcements
Apia, Samoa and Egypt

NZ troops arrive in German Samoa
Photo courtesy New Zealand History

John Neil

Christina Brown and Private John Neil c 1917
Australian Imperial Force
Courtesy of the Neil Family Tree on Ancestry.com

Samuel Orr, Jr.

Lance Corporal Samuel Orr, Jr.
72nd Seaforth Highlanders of Canada

Attestation Papers & Service File

209568 Pioneer A. L. Orr Royal Engineers 12 July 1917
Cambrin Military Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France
Photo by Steve Rogers, The War Graves Photographic Project

Archibald Little Orr

Archibald Little Orr
Pioneer, Chemists Corps Royal Engineers

Dugald Campbell Orr

Hamilton Advertizer, Saturday, Nov 3, 1917

Hamilton Advertizer, Saturday, March 23, 1918
Second Lieutenant Dugald Orr, Scottish Rifles

The award was created on 28 December 1914 for commissioned officers of the substantive rank of Captain or below and for Warrant Officers. In August 1916, Bars were awarded to the MC in recognition of the performance of further acts of gallantry meriting the award and recipients of a bar continue to use postnominal letters MC. In 1931 the award was extended to Majors and also to members of the Royal Air Force for actions on the ground. Since the 1993 review of the honours system, as part of the drive to remove distinctions of rank in awards for bravery, the Military Medal, formerly the third-level decoration for other ranks, has been discontinued. The MC now serves as the third-level award for gallantry on land for all ranks of the British Armed Forces. - Wikipedia

Robert Pennycook

Private Robert "Bob" Pennycook, c 1914
C.H. Knight & Co., 69 Wellington St., Woolwich, S.E., England

John Russell

Captain John Russell, British Army (seated on right)
Photo courtesy Lindsay Russell

Robert Russell

Captain Robert Russell, British Merchant Navy (on the right)
Alhambra Studios, P.J. Blackbeard, Proprietor, 338 New Cross Road, London

Robert Brown Scott

Private Robert Brown Scott
British Army Medical Corps

Andrew Waugh

Corporal Andrew Waugh, Royal Canadian Siege Artillery

Attestation Papers & Service File

James McLean Waugh

Corporal James Waugh, 2nd Tunneling Company

Attestation Papers & Service File

Robert McLean Waugh

Private Robert McLean Waugh, 72nd Battalion

Attestation Papers & Service File

Nanaimo Cemetery
1015361 PRIVATE
ROBERT WAUGH
72ND BATTN. C.E.F.
19TH MAY 1951
TO LIVE IN THE HEART OF THOSE YOU LEAVE BEHIND IS NOT TO DIE
REST IN PEACE

William Waugh

Lance Corporal William Waugh (son of David Waugh and Jane Stewart Anthony) of the Royal Scots 11th Battalion died in the Battle of the Somme at Thiepval on Oct 22, 1916, at the age of 24. See Commonwealth War Graves Casualty Details for William Waugh

Bathgate Cemetery

DAVID & JANE WAUGH
IN MEMORY OF
THEIR DAUGHTER NETTIE
DIED 17th MAY 1932
AGED 28 YEARS
THEIR SON WILLIAM
DIED IN FRANCE 22nd OCT 1916
AGED 24 YEARS
THEIR SON JOHN
DIED 30th JAN 1898
AGED 3 YEARS
INTERRED IN
BATHGATE OLD CEMETERY

Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Thiepval Memorial

That the world may remember the common sacrifice of two and a half million dead, here have been laid side by side Soldiers of France and of the British Empire in eternal comradeship. - Thiepval Cemetery Cross of Sacrifice inscription

"Here are recorded names of officers and men of the British Armies who fell on the Somme battlefields between July 1915 and March 1918 but to whom the fortune of war denied the known and honoured burial given to their comrades in death."

Robert L. Yeaman

Private Robert Leith Yeaman, 124th Overseas Battalion