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1. RANKIN ALEXANDER, M b.1923 447/2 66 Windygates, Fife, Scotland

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Alexander Rankin

Alexander Rankin
1869-1941
Janet Balfour Mortimer
1869-1959
Benjamin Murdoch
1860-< 1921
Catherine Morrison
1866-< 1921

Alexander Rankin
± 1923-1944


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    1. UK, Army Roll of Honour, 1939-1945, Ancestry.com, Record for Alexander Rankin Ancestry.com. UK, Army Roll of Honour, 1939-1945 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2009. Original data: England. The National Archives. “War Office: Roll of Honour, Second World War.” Database. Army Roll of Honour 1939-45. Soldiers Died in World War Two. (WO304). CD Rom. Naval & Military Press. Database online.
      Record for Alexander Rankin
      Name: Alexander Rankin
      Given Initials: A
      Rank: Private
      Death Date: 9 Aug 1944
      Number: 14503787
      Birth Place: Fife
      Residence: Fife
      Branch at Enlistment: Infantry
      Theatre of War: Western Europe Campaign, 1944/45
      Regiment at Death: North Staffordshire Regiment (Prince of Wales’)
      Branch at Death: Infantry
      / www.ancestry.com
    2. Commonwealth Graves Commision, RANKIN, ALEXANDER Commonwealth Graves Commision
      Commonwealth Graves Commision

      PrivateRANKIN, ALEXANDER
      Service Number 14503787
      Died 09/08/1944
      Aged 20
      6th Bn. North Staffordshire Regiment
      Son of Alexander and Isabella Rankin, of Windygates, Fife.

      Buried at BAYEUX WAR CEMETERY
      Location: Calvados, France
      Number of casualties: 4258
      Cemetery/memorial reference: XXIII. F. 2.
      / http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty

    Historical events

    Day of death August 9, 1944

    • The temperature on August 9, 1944 was between 11.9 °C and 25.0 °C and averaged 18.1 °C. There was 7.1 hours of sunshine (47%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
    • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
    • In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
    • In the year 1944: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 9.1 million citizens.
      • February 23 » The Soviet Union begins the forced deportation of the Chechen and Ingush people from the North Caucasus to Central Asia.
      • March 6 » World War II: Soviet Air Forces bomb an evacuated town of Narva in German-occupied Estonia, destroying the entire historical Swedish-era town.
      • June 9 » World War II: The Soviet Union invades East Karelia and the previously Finnish part of Karelia, occupied by Finland since 1941.
      • June 16 » In a gross miscarriage of justice, George Junius Stinney Jr., age 14, becomes the youngest person executed in the United States in the 20th century after being convicted in a two-hour trial for the rape and murder of two teenage white girls.
      • June 25 » The final page of the comic Krazy Kat is published, exactly two months after its author George Herriman died.
      • August 12 » Alençon is liberated by General Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, the first city in France to be liberated from the Nazis by French forces.
    

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