World War I Roll of Honour
Pte. ROBERT HARCUS 2nd Dragoons (Royal Scots Greys), 17th January 1916, age 22.
Pte. WILLIAM MILLER 7th Seaforths, 12th October 1916, age 22.
Pte. GEORGE SEATTER 1/4th Seaforths, between 19th and 21st September 1917, age 23.
Pte. GEORGE P. PEACE, M.M. 8th Seaforths, 24th December 1917, age 24.
Pte. JAMES REID Depot Royal Scots, 18th March 1918, age 21.
Pte. JAMES S. TULLOCH 5th H.L.I., 24th August 1918, age 24.
Rfmn. RICHARD J. ROUSAY 7th London 18th Rifle Brigade, 10th November 1919, age 52.
Pte. JAMES STOUT 2nd Seaforths, 14th October 1916, age 22.
Pte. DAVID DREVER 8th Seaforths, 25th April 1917, age 36.
Pte. JOHN A. WALLACE 8th Seaforths, 17th March 1918, age 21.
Pte. STEWART GROAT 4th Battalion Canadian Machine Gun Corps, 22nd July 1918, age 26.
D/H. DAVID SCOTT Marine R.N.R., H.M. Trawler “Sarah Alice”, 26th September 1916, age 34.
Engnr. CHARLES PEACE Mercantile Marine, S.S. “Express”, 9th February 1918, age 32.
Smn. JAMES W. GROAT Mercantile Marine, S.S. “Coronilla”, 25th December 1918, age 25.
World War I Roll of Honour
A.B. GILLIES HARCUS R.N., H.M.S. “Afridi”, 3rd May 1940, age 19. .
Bosun HUGH HUGHSON, B.E.M. M.N., S.S. “Cape Corso”, 2nd May 1942, age 23.
Shipwrt. GEORGE SHEARER R.N., H.M.L.S.T. 420, 7th November 1944, age 23.
Pte. JAMES D. TULLOCH General Service Corps, 26th February 1943, age 18.
Tpr. JAMES TWATT 18th Regiment Royal Armoured Recce.Corps, 11th July 1943, age 24.
Born in Eday, listed on Kirkwall War Memorial
Saddler HUGH MARWICK 159th Company, 20th Division Train, R.A.S.C., 15th August 1918, age 38.
Born in Eday, not listed on any Orkney war memorial
Pte. JOHN SWANSON 8th Seaforths, 22nd July 1918, age 21
Edward Sinclair was granted the feu of Eday by Adam Bothwell, Bishop of Orkney. These were turbulent times, Sinclair's duties included to defend the reforming Bishop " against all invaders ", and later that year he was one of the ringleaders of an anti Catholic riot in Kirkwall. His son William took over the running of the Eday estate in due course, but it became burdened with debt. In 1601 when Edward was very old, William attempted to sell the family interest to George Sinclair who was the Earl of Caithness. The new proprietor sent half a dozen boatloads of Highland men from Caithness to Eday, much to the alarm of the notorious Earl Patrick of Orkney. Earl Patrick was able to use the poor relationship between the elderly father Edward and his son, the former claiming William fired muskets at him and grabbed him by the neck like a dog, to take action. Acting, so he alleged, on behalf of Edward, Earl Patrick evicted William, took the Eday the rents for himself and profited from the extraction of building stone from Towback quarry. John Stewart, Earl of Carrick, the brother of Earl Patrick, was granted Eday in 1632.
The approx distance between Eday and Glasgow is 240 miles.
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