The Scottish Military Research Group - Commemorations Project

[David McNay]

Location: Muirburn Road, Glassford.

This cemetery opened in 1878 and was built around the old church which sadly only partially remains. Over the years several extensions have been added which continue to provide lairs for future generations.

Number of CWGC burials: 4 (plus 1 CWGC Civilian burial)

Names of those buried or commemorated here:

BOWLES, JAMES
CROZIER, JAMES BROWNLIE
PARK, J
ROBERTSON, DAVID
BOWLES, JAMES
NICOLSON, DONALD McDONALD
YUILL, ANDREW
JACKSON, THOMAS WILSON
JACKSON, WILLIAM

[David McNay]

Name: BOWLES, JAMES
Initials: J
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Leading Motor Mechanic
Regiment/Service: Royal Navy
Unit Text: H.M.S. Shrapnel
Date of Death: 07/11/1943
Service No: D/MX125093
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Grave 93.
Cemetery: GLASSFORD OLD CHURCHYARD

Name: BOWLES, JAMES
Initials: J
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Civilian
Regiment/Service: Civilian War Dead
Age: 41
Date of Death: 17/03/1941
Additional information: of 34 Woddrop Street, Dalmarnock, Glasgow. Son of the late James and Martha Miller Bowles, of 15 Millar Street, Glassford, Strathaven; husband of Isabella Black Bowles. Injured 13 March 1941, at Beardmore's Works, Dalmuir; died at Emergency Hospital, Lennox Castle, Lennoxtown.
Casualty Type: Civilian War Dead
Reporting Authority: STIRLING COUNTY, SCOTLAND

[David McNay]

Name: CROZIER, JAMES BROWNLIE
Initials: J B
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Highland Light Infantry
Unit Text: 18th Bn.
Age: 19
Date of Death: 10/05/1919
Service No: 57557
Additional information: Son of John and Helen Crozier, of Ashwood, Overton Rd., Strathaven, Lanarkshire. Born at Glassford.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: 149.
Cemetery: GLASSFORD OLD CHURCHYARD

[David McNay]

Name: PARK
Initials: J
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Royal Army Medical Corps
Unit Text: 27th Field Amb
Age: 29
Date of Death: 27/02/1920
Service No: 4909
Additional information: Son of James and Helen Park, of 9, Millar St., Glassford.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: 183.
Cemetery: GLASSFORD OLD CHURCHYARD

[David McNay]

Name: ROBERTSON, DAVID
Initials: D
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Guardsman
Regiment/Service: Scots Guards
Age: 31
Date of Death: between 11/05/1941 and 21/05/1941
Service No: 2693592
Additional information: Son of David and Agnes White Robertson, of Glassford.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Grave 223.
Cemetery: GLASSFORD OLD CHURCHYARD

[David McNay]

Name: NICOLSON, DONALD McDONALD
Initials: D M
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Second Lieutenant
Regiment/Service: General List
Secondary Regiment: King's Own Scottish Borderers
Secondary Unit Text: attd. 5th Bn.
Date of Death: 19/04/1917
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 57.
Memorial: JERUSALEM MEMORIAL

[David McNay]

Name: Andrew YUILL
Rank: Unknown
Regiment: 5th Dragoon Guards

Drowned on 11th October 1838, somewhere between Newcastle and Leith, when the "Northern Yacht Steam Ship" foundered.

A brief internet search has come up with no details about this incident.

[David McNay]

Surgeon Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Wilson Jackson, Army Medical Staff - named on the grave but possibly buried elsewhere.

Surgeon-Commander William Jackson, Royal Navy. Died at Strathaven on 13th February 1961 aged 88 years.

[stuartn]

[quote="David McNay"]Name: Andrew YUILL
Rank: Unknown
Regiment: 5th Dragoon Guards

Drowned on 11th October 1838, somewhere between Newcastle and Leith, when the "Northern Yacht Steam Ship" foundered.

A brief internet search has come up with no details about this incident.

More details are here-
http://www.clydeships.co.uk/view.php?ref=1979

11/10/1838, passed Farne Islands (Newcastle for Leith) but then missing. Presumed foundered in gale. All 22 (13 crew, 9 passengers) on board lost. Possible sighting of her foundering that evening off Spittal, Berwick Bay.
29/11/1838 some wreckage, probably of NORTHERN YACHT, washed up at Eyemouth.