A few members may have picked up flyers I left at the September meeting relating to this very worthwhile project.
The following is an extract from an April edition of the Lothian Courier:
A campaign has been started to right a wrong and honour more than 100 brave Bathgate men whose names are missing from the town’s War Memorial.
World War One historian Neil Anderson is the author of ‘Bathgate in the Great War’, which details the names of all the soldiers from the town who died during the conflict.
During his meticulous research Neil discovered the names of more than 140 Bathgate men who made the ultimate sacrifice during World War One but who are not honoured in their home town’s war memorial.
Now a campaign involving Neil, Bathgate Councillor Harry Cartmill and Bathgate’s Royal British Legion branch is set to raise funds to have their names added in time for next year’s centenary of the outbreak of the Great War.
Maybe some of our member know of others who's names are also missing and feel they should be added.
The full story can be read by copying & pasting this link in your browser:
http://www.westlothiancourier.co.uk/wes ... -33231034/