Jay Cottage Posted 2 May , 2020 Share Posted 2 May , 2020 (edited) Searching for Macminn (Mcminn) died 22/12/1915. Gallipoli RASC attached Sussex Yeomanry. Not on CWGC. Any information welcome Edited 2 May , 2020 by Jay Cottage Missing word Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Polar Bear Posted 2 May , 2020 Share Posted 2 May , 2020 (edited) What was his first name? That would help for as you may be aware there are a number (9) of medal cards for 'Mcminn' RAMC. Yours PB Edited 2 May , 2020 by Polar Bear Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay Cottage Posted 2 May , 2020 Author Share Posted 2 May , 2020 (edited) He is mentioned in Sussex Yeomanry Powell Edwards as Pte Macminn RASC Attd. AB Sqdn Died Dec 1915. I have another reference as initial G. Although not sure that is correct I need to find the source of that Edited 2 May , 2020 by Jay Cottage Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Polar Bear Posted 2 May , 2020 Share Posted 2 May , 2020 (edited) No G's I'm afraid in National Archive Medal Cards for McMinn's RAMC... Wait... Apparently I should learn to read. You wrote RASC not RAMC In that case there is only one McMinn in the RASC with a medal card and that would be http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D3868224 This does not look to be a match. There are some MacMinn officers but thats it. Sorry I can't be of better help. P Edited 2 May , 2020 by Polar Bear Also learn to spell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charlie2 Posted 2 May , 2020 Share Posted 2 May , 2020 Only 1 McMinn RASC received the 1914-15 Star - M2/052935 J McMinn and he survived the war. Charlie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay Cottage Posted 2 May , 2020 Author Share Posted 2 May , 2020 It is me that needs to give precise information! Sorry it is RASC. Appreciate your time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay Cottage Posted 2 May , 2020 Author Share Posted 2 May , 2020 It’s interesting. He is in the diary and also on a memorial in the Sussex Yeomanry museum in Newhaven. Will continue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michaeldr Posted 3 May , 2020 Share Posted 3 May , 2020 (edited) I think that this is your man Driver MACKMIN, ALEC LAURENCE Service Number T/164 Died 07/01/1916 Aged 24 Army Service Corps see https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/109364/mackmin,-alec-laurence/ & https://books.google.co.il/books?id=PHq-BAAAQBAJ&pg=PA343&lpg=PA343&dq="McMinn"+died+at+Gallipoli&source=bl&ots=4soojsMSu8&sig=ACfU3U2FB7CnfutWGmpWdfxYqA6lfxMITQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj29Zn9mJfpAhUHyxoKHbOwBgEQ6AEwBHoECAoQAQ#v=onepage&q="McMinn" died at Gallipoli&f=false Edited 3 May , 2020 by michaeldr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sadbrewer Posted 3 May , 2020 Share Posted 3 May , 2020 17 minutes ago, michaeldr said: I think that this is your man Driver MACKMIN, ALEC LAURENCE Service Number T/164 Died 07/01/1916 Aged 24 Army Service Corps see https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/109364/mackmin,-alec-laurence/ & https://books.google.co.il/books?id=PHq-BAAAQBAJ&pg=PA343&lpg=PA343&dq="McMinn"+died+at+Gallipoli&source=bl&ots=4soojsMSu8&sig=ACfU3U2FB7CnfutWGmpWdfxYqA6lfxMITQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj29Zn9mJfpAhUHyxoKHbOwBgEQ6AEwBHoECAoQAQ#v=onepage&q="McMinn" died at Gallipoli&f=false If he's the right man, here's a death notice courtesy of the British Newspaper Archive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michaeldr Posted 3 May , 2020 Share Posted 3 May , 2020 (edited) SB The other ref from Croydon and the Great War is more likely to be correct:- Mackmin, Alec Lawrence, T164, Driver, R.A.S.C. (attd. Suss. Yeom.)b., Cadbury, Somerset, 16 Jan., '92 ; y.s., Mr. & Mrs. A. Mackmin,Av. Mans., Elms Av., Eastbourne. Educ, Trinity Sch., East-bourne. Single. Electrician. Res., 73 Malvern Rd.,T. Heath.Enl., 5 Aug., '14 ; zv., Gallipoli, 5 Jan., '16. D., 7 Jan., '16,on Hosp. Ship " Assaye," Alexandria. Buried, 8 Jan., ChatbyMil. Cem., Alexandria. If he had been KiA, then he would have been buried on the peninsula and not in Egypt edit to add: I do hope that the CWGC's inscription is correct on the stone Edited 3 May , 2020 by michaeldr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michaeldr Posted 3 May , 2020 Share Posted 3 May , 2020 The Eastbourne Chronicle seems to have got it right http://media.thekeep.info/gb179/EASTBOURNE CHRONICLE_19160122.pdf "died of wounds received in action at the Dardanelles" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay Cottage Posted 3 May , 2020 Author Share Posted 3 May , 2020 Wow gentlemen, thank you. I look forward to reading/ recording this information. Currently researching 1st / 1st Sussex Yeomanry who died in Gallipoli. My grandfather SQMS S F Staines #1441 was in Yeomanry pre ww1 and survived. (Still looking for the two missing medals, one being the Territorial Efficiency, understood to have been sold in early 1990’s) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
corisande Posted 3 May , 2020 Share Posted 3 May , 2020 4 hours ago, michaeldr said: I think that this is your man Driver MACKMIN, ALEC LAURENCE Service Number T/164 Died 07/01/1916 Aged 24 Army Service Corps Michael I have to congratulate you on getting that variant of his name. Many readers will not appreciate how difficult it is to get that sort of "odd" variant , Mc, Mac , Mack (one I would never have thought of), min, minn,,, As with everything , when you get the right answer, it looks easy ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michaeldr Posted 3 May , 2020 Share Posted 3 May , 2020 33 minutes ago, corisande said: As with everything , when you get the right answer, it looks easy ! Thank you kind Sir, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay Cottage Posted 28 June , 2020 Author Share Posted 28 June , 2020 As a follow up the CWGC have noted the incorrect wording:- “As a point of interest and having looked at the link you kindly sent, it appears that there is a possible engraving error in the personal inscription on his headstone: the first line reads 'Never loving memory' - this should surely read 'In ever loving memory' . Therefore I will forward our correspondence to our Records Section, for them to amend the error in our digital records, so that at some point in the future when the whole headstone requires replacement, it will bear the correct inscription.” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dai Bach y Sowldiwr Posted 28 June , 2020 Share Posted 28 June , 2020 1 hour ago, Jay Cottage said: it appears that there is a possible engraving error in the personal inscription on his headstone: the first line reads 'Never loving memory' - this should surely read 'In ever loving memory' . That's embarrassing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JOVE23 Posted 29 June , 2020 Share Posted 29 June , 2020 1 hour ago, Dai Bach y Sowldiwr said: That's embarrassing! Seriously! How many sets of eyes looked at that and said "Looks good to me" before chisel touched headstone? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Michelle Young Posted 29 June , 2020 Admin Share Posted 29 June , 2020 I found a headstone with "Until We Melt Again" at Boulogne Eastern. Since corrected. Michelle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seaJane Posted 29 June , 2020 Share Posted 29 June , 2020 Oh dear ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frev Posted 30 June , 2020 Share Posted 30 June , 2020 AANS nurse Bessie Pocock was the Matron on the HS Assaye, and she notes in her diary on the 7/1/1916: Arrived Alexandria 8.30 a.m. Dr A Mackmin, A.S.C. No.164, died 8 am today – shrapnel wd back, paralyzed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay Cottage Posted 30 June , 2020 Author Share Posted 30 June , 2020 Amazing note and thank you. Another Sussex Yeoman I am researching who died on Assaye was Private Walter John Laverne Jordan 2254 on 20th December 1915 Nick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frev Posted 1 July , 2020 Share Posted 1 July , 2020 11 hours ago, Jay Cottage said: Another Sussex Yeoman I am researching who died on Assaye was Private Walter John Laverne Jordan 2254 on 20th December 1915 I'm afraid it's hit and miss - and sadly she doesn't mention any of the deaths around this date. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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