22 – Those who fell

The North Queensferry War Memorial commemorates the Five Sailors and Twenty Three Soldiers from the village who lost their lives in WWI.

David Revell Bedell-Sivright – Surgeon Sub Lieutenant, RN, died 5th September 1915 (aged 34) of acute septicaemia following an insect bite in the Dardanelles. Buried at sea off Cape Helles, Gallipoli.

Henry Kenmore Duff Cuthbert – Midshipman RNR, died 1st November 1914 (aged 18) when HMS Good Hope was sunk with all hands at the battle of Coronel, off the coast of Chile. Lost at sea.

Robert Thomson – Leading Seaman, RNR, on HMS Armadale Castle died 17th October 1918 (aged 35) of influenza.
Buried in Kilrenny Parish Churchyard, Fife.

Fred Monk – Stoker 2nd Class, Royal Navy, HMS Cumberland died 30th September 1918 (aged 31) of influenza.
Buried in Port Talbot Churchyard, Wales.

Herbert Charles Pearce – Leading Signalman, Royal Navy, died 1st November 1918 (aged 26) on his way to home leave from HM Submarine E35 in Gibraltar when the steamer foundered in a gale off Cape Finisterre. Lost at sea.

One of the twenty three soldiers died in Mesopotamia, one in the Dardanelles, and twenty-one in Belgium and France, with the battles of Arras, the Somme and Ypres featuring depressingly often.

As well as being named on the War Memorial, the men of the village who fell in the Great War are also commemorated by the Ypres Bell which hangs behind the village church.