This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: lawrence,dewey,hammond,eley,spalding Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/DAw.2ACIB/1650.1 Message Board Post: msg found on lawrence forum genforum: "am eager to contact the descendents and family of Alexander Lawrence (1871 - 1916), born in Scatterty, King-Edward parish, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Lawrence was the son of Alexander Lawrence of Fordyce, Banffshire and Ann Murdoch or King-Edward. He married Janet ("Jeannie") McLaughlin and thy kept a residence at Park HOuse, Broxburn, West Lothian. Lawrence was a life-long soldier, spending most of his military career with the 1st Battalion, Gordon Highlanders. He died on the Somme, 19 September 1916, serving as adjutant, 10th Battalion, The Queen's Regiment and is buried on the Somme."