Dull + mild & with one or two watery glints of sunshine. S.W. [wind] Walked to Halliday’s Park, Hospital, Bridgelands (where I found a boy Hardie¹ desquamating² + sent him to Hospital) + Goslawdales³. Had consultation with Pollok⁴ at County Building re Shankland’s trial tomorrow⁵, + walked up to Roseneuk⁶. Got some more work done at record cards. New basin turned up in dressing room but some joiner work still to do. They have taken the waste pipe outside instead of through the pantry. Helen⁷ was at a party in the afternoon at Mrs Lewis’⁸ [?].

¹ Hardie is not identified

² Desquamating is the peeling away of the skin

³ Goslawdales, Selkirk covers a lot of property and it is not possible to identify with confidence who Dr Muir was visiting

⁴ John Pollok (1858-1938), Town Clerk and Procurator Fiscal, Selkirk

⁵ Dugald Cowan Shankland, ship owner, and sometime of Whinfield, Kilmalcolm, Renfrewshire had hit and injured a young man Wilfred Lees whilst driving at Fairnilea on 11 August 1921

⁶ There appears to be an error on ScotlandsPeople but for many years William Norman Mellalieu (1887-1952), music teacher and organist, had been (and continued to be so until at least 1926) Proprietor Occupier of the house and garden ‘Roseneuk’, 1 The Glebe, Selkirk [1921 Valuation Roll, VR007900012- … …]

⁷ Helen Frances ‘Mousey’ Muir (1880-1963), Dr Muir’s third daughter and sometime housekeeper

⁸ Mrs Lewis may be Wilhelmina Lewis née Currie (1882-1940), daughter of Robert Currie, woollen manufacturer, and Mary Currie née Murray; she had married, 1913, at Selkirk, James Lewis, bookseller and publisher

[Source: Scottish Borders Archives & Local History Service SBA/657/24, Dr J S Muir of Selkirk, medical practitioner, journal for 1921]

Delightful day not quite so mild but very pleasant, sunny + calm. Was at both services. In the forenoon the new Heatherlie minister Wilson¹ preached this being the annual interchange of pulpits. His text was from 90^th Psalm “He shall give his angels charge over thee”² + “He spoke of the Heavenly angels of Sleep, Work, service +c³. I saw some town cases walking. Jack, Nancy⁴, Norah + Dav.⁵ came to supper.

¹ The Reverend James Wilson B.D. (fl.1921-1942), Minister of Heatherlie from 1921 [Proprietor (life-renter), house and office of Heatherlie, 23 Yarrow Terrace, Selkirk [1922 Valuation Roll, VR007900012-/352, Selkirk Burgh, page 352 of 644]

² “For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways.” Psalm 91:11

³ This reference is unidentified

⁴ John ‘Jack’ Roberts junior (1876-1966) and Agnes Amelia ‘Nancy’ Roberts née Muir (1878-1948)

⁵ David Charteris ‘Dav.’ Graham (1889-1963), M.B., medical practitioner and Dr Muir’s business partner and Norah Campion Graham née West (1887-1971), his wife

[Source: Scottish Borders Archives & Local History Service SBA/657/24, Dr J S Muir of Selkirk, medical practitioner, journal for 1921]

1.30 this morning¹. It was a fine mild, moonlight night. Other members of the party² were Sandy Steel³, Tina S.⁴, Mary Benzies⁵, Miss Hastie⁶ (violinist), Miss Anderson⁷ (accompanist), [two words deleted], Alex Reekie⁸ + Nell⁹. This was a lovely bright almost warm day: duller in afternoon + just a sensation of rain. David¹⁰ shooting at Fairnilea: after seeing town cases I cycled via Kirklea¹¹ to Riddell, Lilliesleaf + Midlem Mill: Saw the hounds at Middles¹². The meet was at Ashkirk + H. + N.¹³ cycled over.

¹ The first part of this entry appear to complete the penultimate sentence of the previous entry “Did not get home ‘till.”

² The concert was in aid of the Innerleithen Jubilee Nursing Endowment Fund (see also diary entry for 9 December 1921)

³ Alexander Steele (about 1867-), powerloom tuner, sometime of Curror Street, Selkirk, the only Alexander or Sandy Steel(e) recorded in either the 1911 or 1921 Census returns [Southern Reporter, 15 December 1921; [Selkirk, 1911, 778/6/6, page 6 of 32 and Selkirk, 1921, 778/ 6/ 6, page 6 of 22].

⁴ Tina S is not identified but it would be reasonable to assume that there is a family connection to both Sandy Steele and Jessie Given (about 1904-) who was a niece of his, born in Idaho, America but recorded at Curror Street, Selkirk in the 1911 and 1921 Census returns [Selkirk, 1911, 778/6/6, page 6 of 32 and Selkirk, 1921, 778/ 6/ 6, page 6 of 22]. Jessie Given was recorded by the Southern as performing at the Innerleithen event [Southern Reporter, 15 December 1921].

⁵ Mary Benzies is difficult to identify with certainty though the family of James Benzies, grocer, of Selkirk was recorded in the 1911 Census and included two Marys, mother and daughter; since she is described as Miss in the Southern she must be the latter [Southern Reporter, 15 December 1921]

⁶ Presumably Miss Grace Hastie (about 1891-), tweed darner, who was recorded at Cannon Street, Selkirk, 1911 Census [Southern Reporter, 15 December 1921; Selkirk, 1911, 778/ 11/ 4, page 4 of 21]

⁷ Miss Anderson is not noted in the report published in the Southern Reporter, 15 December 1921

⁸ Alexander ‘Alex’ Reekie (1879-1951), son of Christopher Reekie (about 1852-1916), music teacher, and Mary Reekie née Moyes (about 1865-?), married 1877, Selkirk and brother of Christopher ‘Chris’ Reekie (1892-1986), a celebrated Selkirk musician who in spite of emigrating was a long-standing part of Selkirk’s Common Riding; the family was living at 20 Market Place, Selkirk in 1911 [Census 778/ 1/ 6, Page 6 of 15; Southern Reporter, 15 December 1921]

⁹ Assume Ellen Margaret ‘Nell’ Turner, later Reekie (1892-1971); she was to marry Alexander ‘Alex’ Reekie in 1927 at Selkirk [sources: birth, 1892, 781/ 14, Ashkirk; marriage, Reekie and Turner, 1927, 778/ 4, Selkirk; death, 1971, 683/ 86, Dalkeith]

¹⁰ David Charteris ‘Dav.’ Graham (1889-1963), M.B., medical practitioner and Dr Muir’s business partner

¹¹ Kirklea was the home of William Henry ‘W H’ or ‘Will’ Ogilvie (1869-1963), poet, author, journalist and one of Australia’s great Bush poets, and his family

¹² Middles, Lilliesleaf, grid reference centred on NGR NT537,246

¹³ Helen Frances ‘Mousey’ Muir (1880-1963), Dr Muir’s third daughter and sometime housekeeper and Agnes Amelia ‘Nancy’ Roberts née Muir (1878-1948), Dr Muir’s second daughter

[Source: Scottish Borders Archives & Local History Service SBA/657/24, Dr J S Muir of Selkirk, medical practitioner, journal for 1921]

Sent May¹ a grouse

Gave little Georgina Wylie² Chlor[oform] + extracted a lot of rotten teeth. John Anderson³, Craighill called + paid his account of £11.3.6. Cycled to Hospital +c + up to Rosemount⁴. During afternoon worked at the record cards⁵. At 6.30 left in a char-a-banc with Sandy Steel⁶ + party for a concert at Innerleithen. Went via Gala to pick up Bell⁷. Concert very successful in aid of Jubilee nurses⁸. Was stuck on platform beside Prov. Mathison⁹ a druggist Aberdonian + antiquarian. Recited ‘Salmon’, ‘Borderland’ + ‘Pill’¹⁰. Got some tea. Did not get home ‘till¹². Helen + Nancy¹³ were down at the meet of Lauderdale at Friarshall¹⁴.

¹ Mary may be Mary Jane Wallace née Muir (1836-1933), Dr Muir’s sister, married to James Wallace, living at Scotstoune, Haslemere, Surrey.

² Georgina Wylie (1916-1949), born 26 January 1916 at 24 Chapel Street, Selkirk, daughter of William Wylie, railway signalman, and Jane Wylie nee Walters [ScotlandsPeople indexed at Watters], married 1894, Edinburgh [parents’ marriage, 685/5 551, Newington, Edinburgh; birth 1916, 778/9, Selkirk, death 1949, 685/5 1112, George Square]

³ John L Anderson, shepherd, Inhabitant Occupier not rated at Craighill, Ettrick [1921 Valuation Roll, VR011700009-/312, Selkirk County, page 312 of 611]

⁴ Rosemount, 30 Hillside Terrace, home of James Kirkpatrick, wool agent (about 1854-) and such of his children as may still have been at home, his wife Grace Kirkpatrick née Smith (1857-1915), formerly of Kingussie, Inverness-shire, having died in 1915 [1921 Valuation Roll, VR007900012-/141, Selkirk Burgh, page 141 of 644]

⁵ The Muir and Graham medical co-partnership had changed its administration and Dr Muir was undertaking onerous work on record cards

⁶ Samuel ‘Sam’ Strang Steel (1882-1961), 1st Baronet, M.P., J.P., T.D., Lord Lieutenant of Selkirk 1948-1958

⁷ Bell of Gala appears occasionally in Dr Muir’s diaries, he is not yet identified

⁸ The concert was in aid of the Queen’s Jubilee Institute for Nursing, established in 1889, following Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee, later the Queen’s Nursing Institute Scotland (QNIS).

⁹ Probably Robert Mathieson (1861-1941), druggist and Provost of Innerleithen for forty years, born New Machar, Aberdeenshire, he had two shops, at High Street and Waverley Road, an aerated water factory at Chapel Street and a house and garden St Serf’s, 2 Buccleuch Street, all Innerleithen; however though he may have been an antiquarian of sorts he was not related to and should not, as Ted McKie notes, be confused with, Robert Mathison (1832-1891), master builder, antiquarian and builder of The Glen [sources: 1921 Valuation Roll, VR011200022-/169, Peebles County, page 169 of 255; 1911 Census 762/1 2/ 14, page 14 of 31; 1941 Statutory registers Deaths, 762/1 10; Past Innerleithen: Robert Mathison]

¹⁰ ‘Salmon’ and ‘Borderland’ (or variations on those titles) are poems or ballads occasionally recited by Dr Muir, though neither has yet been identified

¹¹ The Peel (Pill) is from Dr John F Fergus (1865-1943), ‘Fancies of a Physician, Medical and Otherwise, in Scots and English’, Brown Son & Ferguson, Glasgow, 1938. Its penultimate verse reads
“Syne it was a hard to name it, but it was waur to heal | But the doctor, couthy body, garr’d the fella rak’ a peel: | An oh, it was an unco peel made up wi’ money a pushion, | There was scammony and jalap in’t, an aloes in profusion, | And calomel and rhubarb – but it cured him a’ the same | O’ the awful’ unco feelin’ that was wummlin’ in his wame.”
Scammony Convolvulus scammonia, a bindweed native to the countries of the eastern Mediterranean; its dried roots are used as a purgative
Jalap is the dried tuberous root of the Mexican plant Ipomoea purga or Exogonium purga, of the morning-glory family, or a powdered purgative prepared from it

’The Dictionars o the Scots Leid’ record Wummling “Wammle, v., n., adv. Also wamle, wam(m)el, -il, waum(m)le, -el, waamle; wom(m)le, womble (wm.Sc. 1887 Jam.), wummle, -el, wumble; wimil, -mel, waimble; whummle-, whamble (Sc. 1827 Blackwood’s Mag. (Jan.) 42) and reduplic. form wimble-wamble. [wɑml, wml, wʌml]
I. v. 1. Of the stomach or its contents: to roll, to stir uneasily, rumble queasily (Sc. 1808 Jam., 1905 E.D.D.; Bnff., Abd., Fif. 1973). Also transf. and fig. Vbl.n. wammlin.”, and
Wame “2. In various senses of Eng. belly (Sc. 1808 Jam., s.v. Wambe; Cai. 1905 E.D.D.; Per., Fif., Lth., Ayr. 1915–26 Wilson; Ork. 1929 Marw. s.v. Wab o’ the wame). Gen.Sc. Also in n.Eng. dial.; in some contexts not very distinguishable from sense 1. Phrs.: a sair wame, stomach-ache (Sc. 1825 Jam.; ne.Sc. 1973).”

¹² This sentence appears to be completed at the start of the following diary entry

¹³ Helen Frances ‘Mousey’ Muir (1880-1963), Dr Muir’s third daughter and sometime housekeeper and Agnes Amelia ‘Nancy’ Roberts née Muir (1878-1948), Dr Muir’s second daughter

¹⁴ Friarshall or Friarshaugh, Melrose, home of Charles William Herdman at this time

[Source: Scottish Borders Archives & Local History Service SBA/657/24, Dr J S Muir of Selkirk, medical practitioner, journal for 1921]

Still mild, damp + dull. No sunshine: cycled round to Mavisbank, Hospital, Gib. + Lum.¹, + Ettrick Road. Grierson² commenced putting new basin in my dressing-room. Spent whole afternoon + evening working up record cards for Insurance people. It is an awful piece of drudgery. Helen + Nancy³ went to a political meeting in Union Hall⁴. David’s⁵ car broke down up Yarrow. He went to meeting of Panel Comm^ttee.

¹ Gibson & Lumgair Ltd., woollen textile manufacturer, of St Mary’s Mill, Selkirk

² Assume Robert Grierson, plumber and Tenant Occupier of a house at 5 Raeburn Meadow, Selkirk [1921 Valuation Roll, VR007900012-/185, Selkirk Burgh, page 185 of 644]

³ Helen Frances ‘Mousey’ Muir (1880-1963), Dr Muir’s third daughter and sometime housekeeper and Agnes Amelia ‘Nancy’ Roberts née Muir (1878-1948), Dr Muir’s second daughter

⁴ Union Hall, 62-70 High Street, Selkirk, at junction with Back Row, now the Co-op., grid reference NGR NT47142,28602, Canmore ID 231538

⁵ David Charteris ‘Dav.’ Graham (1889-1963), M.B., medical practitioner and Dr Muir’s business partner

[Source: Scottish Borders Archives & Local History Service SBA/657/24, Dr J S Muir of Selkirk, medical practitioner, journal for 1921]

Some sunshine up till about 2 or 3 when it got dark + there was slight rain. Very pleasant in forenoon. Helen’s¹ birthday but I forgot till she reminded me. Heard’s little kid aet 7 mo died at the Hospital at 4 this morning². Dav.³ curretted Mrs Bryson, Rosemount⁴. Saw 13 cases + Hospital. Helen walked to Fairnilea⁵ with Nancy⁶ and sampled her new boots which I gave her last week⁷. Baptie⁸ was distributing accounts. Cleared out dressing room for plumbers⁹.

¹ Helen Frances ‘Mousey’ Muir (1880-1963), Dr Muir’s third daughter and sometime housekeeper

² Janet Louisa Heard, born 1921, Selkirk, died 7 December 1921 at the Infectious Diseases Hospital, Selkirk, of “Diphtheria 4 days” certified by John S Muir M.B.; she was the daughter of Walter Heard and May Heard née Avery, and he was Tenant Occupier of a house at 45 Castle Street, Selkirk [sources: birth, [778/ 40, Selkirk; death, 1921, 778/ 83, Selkirk; 1920 Valuation Roll]

³ David Charteris ‘Dav.’ Graham (1889-1963), M.B., medical practitioner and Dr Muir’s business partner

⁴ Mrs Bryson is not identified but Rosemount, then No. 30 Hillside Terrace (now No. 28), was the home of James Kirkpatrick, wool agent; if this is correct then Mrs Bryson must surely be a relative or a member of staff but one must add the caveat of the danger of over-reliance on house names [1921 Valuation Roll, VR007900012-/141, Selkirk Burgh, page 141 of 644]

⁵ Fairnilee, Caddonfoot, where Alexander Fowler Roberts (1234-1234), xxx, was Proprietor of the mansion house of Fairnilee and property at Fairnilee, Rink, Calfshaw and Robin’s Nest [1921 Valuation Roll, VR011700009-/309, Selkirk County, pages 308 and 309 of 611]

⁶ Agnes Amelia ‘Nancy’ Roberts née Muir (1878-1948), Dr Muir’s second daughter

⁷ Dr Muir had bought his daughter a pair of boots on their way home from Frederick Pike’s funeral in Edinburgh, see diary entry for 29 November 1921

⁸ Thomas Baptie (1860-1929), driver and handyman for Dr Muir

⁹ Dr Muir was having a sink installed in his dressing room

[Source: Scottish Borders Archives & Local History Service SBA/657/24, Dr J S Muir of Selkirk, medical practitioner, journal for 1921]

Very mild, dull + wet. Was from 10.50 until 2 at Viewfield. David¹ curetted Mrs Jas. Elliot², Synton Mill + then did a supra pubic cystotomy + a vaginal [illegible] on Mrs Jas. Scott³, Chapel Place. In the afternoon I walked to the Hospital + Hardie⁴, Bridgelands. Helen⁵ had lunch + tea at Wellwood⁶. Jessie Boyd⁷ was there + Mrs Dees⁸ + her sister⁹ were at tea.

Agreement with Ireland¹⁰

¹ The Editor assumes that this is Isabella Douglas Elliot née Amos, wife of James Elliot of Flex, Hawick, who was also tenant at Shielswood, Ashkirk

² James Scott, wool sorter, was Tenant Occupier of a house and garden 4 Chapel Place, Selkirk [1921 Valuation Roll, VR007900012-/105, Selkirk Burgh, page 105 of 644]

³ Wellwood, Ettrick Terrace, Selkirk, home of John ‘Jack’ Roberts junior (1876-1966), Agnes Amelia ‘Nancy’ Roberts née Muir (1878-1948) and their children

⁴ Assume James Hardie (c.1841-1922), retired ploughman, husband of Margaret Nicholson, was Inhabitant Occupier not rated at Bridgelands Lodge, Galashiels, 1920 Valuation Roll

⁵ Helen Frances ‘Mousey’ Muir (1880-1963), Dr Muir’s third daughter and sometime housekeeper

⁶ Wellwood, Ettrick Terrace, Selkirk was home of the Roberts family, Dr Muir’s daughter, son-in-law and grandchildren

⁷ Jessie Milne Brack Boyd (1867-1961), of Faldonside, plantswoman and gardener

⁸ Edith Mary Boileau Dees née Henderson (1872-1948) of Faldonside

⁹ Edith Dees had a number of sisters including Elizabeth Jane Henderson, later Harrison (1869-?1946), Robina Margaret Henderson (1874-1941), Mary Lowrey [sic] Henderson, later Glenny (1875-?1931), and Isabel Anne Henderson (1879-1946)

¹⁰ The Anglo-Irish Treaty (An Conradh Angla-Éireannach) signed on 6 December 1921 to conclude the Irish War of Independence and which provided for the establishment of the Irish Free State (implemented 1922) and gave the north of Ireland its opt out from the Irish Free State as previously envisaged in the Government of Ireland Act 1920

[Source: Scottish Borders Archives & Local History Service SBA/657/24, Dr J S Muir of Selkirk, medical practitioner, journal for 1921]

Frost gone: rain during night mild + dull: very dark at 3. Message to Willie Cochrane¹, Whitmuirhall (gum boil). Went out in the Straker Squire² + then down to Faldonside + Hospital. Child Heard³ still living. Saw it again in evening. Case of Diph.⁴ from Oakwoodmill. Got all the July – Sept. town accounts put up for delivery.

¹ William ‘Willie’ Cochrane, gardener, was Inhabitant Occupier not rated at Whitmuirhall, Selkirk [1921 Valuation Roll, VR011700009-/333, Selkirk County, page 333 of 611]

² Straker Squire or Straker-Squire Ltd., also Brazil, Straker (1901-1927), motor manufacturer; the Muir & Graham partnership had run their Straker Squire since at least early 1919

³ Janet Louisa Heard (1921-), daughter of Walter Heard, general labourer, and May Heard née Avery, was extremely ill with Diphtheria; the implication here is that she was at the Infectious Diseases Hospital by this time though Dr Muir had previously been seeing her at home at Castle Street, Selkirk

⁴ There was a nasty outbreak of Diphtheria and Scarlet Fever which had been running in Selkirk since the summer of 1921 and continued into 1922

[Source: Scottish Borders Archives & Local History Service SBA/657/24, Dr J S Muir of Selkirk, medical practitioner, journal for 1921]

Hard frost + heavy rime on slates. Bright sunshine + quite calm. A fine winter day. Walked down to Hospital immediately after breakfast. Child Heard¹ i.s.q.² very critical. Came back to Rosemount³, Castle Street + High Street. Went to morning service with Helen⁴ + Bessie⁵. Tabulated town accounts + put up some of them for distribution. Walked to Castle Street + Hospital at night + supped at Wellwood⁶. Mr Duffus⁷ + Mr McAndrew⁸ (a McEdward [?]) Lawson’s⁹ assistant there.

¹ Janet Louisa Heard (1921-), daughter of Walter Heard, general labourer, and May Heard née Avery, was extremely ill with Diphtheria; the implication here is that she was at the Infectious Diseases Hospital by this time though Dr Muir had previously been seeing her at home at Castle Street, Selkirk

² Medical abbreviation In Status Quo or no change

³ James Kirkpatrick, wool agent, was Proprietor Occupier at Rosemount, 30 Hillside Terrace, Selkirk, [1921 Valuation Roll, VR007900012-/141, Selkirk Burgh, page 141 of 644]

⁴ Helen Frances ‘Mousey’ Muir (1880-1963), Dr Muir’s housekeeper and third daughter

⁵ Assume Elizabeth Maud ‘Bessie’ Patrick (1881-1945), daughter of Christina Robertson ‘Tina’ Patrick née Rodger and David Patrick, solicitor, of Hamilton

⁶ Wellwood, Ettrick Terrace, Selkirk, home of John ‘Jack’ Roberts junior and Agnes Amelia ‘Nancy’ Roberts née Muir and their children Andrina Barbara Henderson ‘Barbara’ Roberts, later Thwigg, John Stewart ‘Jock’ Roberts, Louisa Jane Roberts, later Rutherford, Stewart Muir ‘Little Stewart’ Roberts and George Edward ‘Tim’ Roberts

⁷ Mr McAndrew has not been identified.

⁸ Mr Duffus has not been identified but Dr Muir’s diary entry for 27 November 1921 notes that he is from Aberdeen

⁹ The Reverend George Lawson (1859-1937), M.A. Church of Scotland minister, at Selkirk c.1902 to c.1930, and of The Manse, West Port [1921 Valuation Rolls VR007900012-/105, Selkirk Burgh, page 105 of 644]; born Kintore, Aberdeenshire, married, 1890, St Nicholas, Aberdeenshire, Annie Strahan Black, also born Aberdeenshire, he died 1937 at Morningside, Edinburgh [birth, 1859, 213/ 44, Kintore, Aberdeen; marriage, 1890, 168/1 69, St Nicholas, Aberdeenshire; death; 1937, 685/7 1012, Morningside]

[Source: Scottish Borders Archives & Local History Service SBA/657/24, Dr J S Muir of Selkirk, medical practitioner, journal for 1921]

Same sort of weather but quite calm. Roads wonderfully dry. No sunshine. Cycled in town + out to Wester Essenside¹ (8.25)². Got back in time for unveiling of War Memorial³ by Munro, Secretary for Scotland⁴. It was a most favourable day as regards weather. Not a breath of wind. There was a big crowd + the Ceremony passed off successfully. I was disappointed that Munro had no local allusion in his speech. In afternoon I walked to Hospital, Ruby Bell⁵, Castle Street with temp. of 103.2 this morning + 102 at night. At the unveiling Pat Smith⁶ presided, Lawson⁷ prayed + Ross⁸ pronounced the benediction. The Duke⁹ + other nobs were there + Dunlop¹⁰.

¹ Presumably to see the Heard family of Wester Essenside, Ashkirk, George Heard senior, Elizabeth Davidson ‘Lizzie’ Heard née Bulman (1884-1937) and their sons George junior (1917-2006) and Robert (1920-), both born Wester Essenside, Ashkirk

² This will be a record of distance because Dr Muir used the Veeder Cyclometer (made at Hartford, Connecticut), a device that measured wheel revolutions and thus distance – though a cyclometer had to be purchased for each different size of bicycle wheel [see diary entry for 21 July 1919 for more information]

³ Selkirk War Memorial, WMO ID: 148479, design by Sir Robert Lorimer, at junction of Ettrick Terrace and The Valley, Selkirk, grid reference NGR NT46917,28538; it has steps leading up to an elevated platform with a sculptured wall containing name panels and, raised behind, stands a stepped decorated plinth with a shaft and gabled cross, and the original inscription with 399 names recorded on two plaques reads:
“To | The Glory Of God & | In Honoured Memory | Of The Men Of The | Burgh & Parish Of | Selkirk Who Fell | In The Great War 1914-1919”
[source: IWM War Memorials Register: Memorial Selkirk]

⁴ Robert Munro (1868-1955), 1st Baron Alness, GBE, PC, QC, DL, Scottish lawyer, judge and Liberal politician, served as Secretary for Scotland 1916-1922

⁵ Ruby Bell is not identified but may be Christina Miller Bell (1912-), born 22 March 1912, at Victoria Crescent, Selkirk, or her mother Christina Govenlock Bell née Watson, wife of Robert Davidson Bell, tweed designer, married June 1911, Selkirk and living at 14 Castle Street, Selkirk, 1921 Valuation Roll

⁶ Patrick ‘Pat’ Smith (1858-1930), advocate and sheriff-substitute, sometime of The Firs, Selkirk

⁷ The Reverend Lawson George (1859-1937), M.A., Church of Scotland minister, at Selkirk from about 1902 to about 1930

⁸ The Reverend Andrew Ross (1871-1942), Church of Scotland minister

⁹ John Charles Montagu Douglas Scott (1864-1935), 7th Duke of Buccleuch

¹⁰ Assume Charles Walter Dunlop (1846-1922), merchant, of Whitmuirhall, Selkirk

[Source: Scottish Borders Archives & Local History Service SBA/657/24, Dr J S Muir of Selkirk, medical practitioner, journal for 1921]