The Scottish Military Research Group - Commemorations Project

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UKNIWM Ref: 44327

Location inside St Ninian’s Parish Church at OS Map Ref NX 77789 90979.

Notice the care with which this memorial has been placed in its surroundings. The mechanism for opening a window necessarily sits in front of the memorial but has been skilfully painted to blend in.

As far as I have checked, the names are exactly the same as those on the civic memorial in the Moniave Institute although in a different order.

Names:
LT COL JOHN C MONTEITH
CAPT GERARD R ANDERSON
CAPT W DOUGLAS KENNEDY
CAPT W WALTER LAURIE
CAPT P LYON PLAYFAIR
LIEUT ARTHUR BELL
LIEUT CHARLES KENNEDY
LIEUT REV WILLIAM N MONTEITH
2LT HUGH LAMBERTON
2LT MATTHE LAMBERTON
2LT LIEUT WILLIAM FORSYTH
CPO DONALD MACDONALD
SGT WILLIAM BROWN
SGT THOMAS NEILSON
CPL JAMES BENNET
LCE CPL ROLAND McGOWAN
LCE CPL DAVID McMILLAN
LCE CPL JOHN RUTHERFORD
SGT R WELWOOD COWAN
BOMBDR WILLIAM WAUGH
GUNNER ROBERT EDGAR
GUNNER CHARLES JOHNSTONE
GUNNER WILLIAM SWAN
TROOPER JOHN BROWN
PIONEER NORMAN MACDONALD
BUGLER JAMES STRONG
PTE IRVINE ANDERSON
PTE ALEXANDER BARTON
PTE JOHN BROWN
PTE ROBERT CARSON
PTE WILLIAM CARSON
PTE GEORGE CLARK
PTE SIMON COMMON
PTE WILLIAM DALZIEL
PTE ROBERT DAVIDSON
PTE JOSEPH FERGUSON
PTE JAMES GRAHAM
PTE THOMAS GRAHAM
PTE ANDREW HALLIDAY
PTE DAVID HASTINGS
PTE GIDEON HUNTER
PTE WILLIAM KERR
PTE GEORGE B LAUDER
PTE FREDERICK LOCKERBIE
PTE DAVID MABEN
PTE JOHN MARTIN
PTE WILFRED MATHER
PTE JAMES MIDDLETON
PTE JAMES MURRAY
PTE JOHN MURDIE
PTE WALTER D McCALL
PTE CHARLES S McCARTNEY
PTE WILLIAM McFEGAN
PTE JAMES McCULLOCH
PTE JOHN McWHIRTER
PTE JOHN NEILSON
PTE WILLIAM NIELSON
PTE WILLIAM PATERSON
PTE JAMES D RAE
PTE JAMES REID
PTE HENRY RUSSELL
PTE JOHN SEATON
PTE JOSEPH SYKES
PTE JAMES TAIT
PTE HENRY TODD
PTE ALEXANDER M WALKER
PTE GEORGE WAUGH
PTE JOHN WILSON
PTE THOMAS WILSON
PTE WALTER WILSON
PTE GEORGE T WIGHT
MISS JEMIMA WILSON

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This plaque arrived in this church during the 1920-1930's; it was moved from The United Free Church, in Dunreggan after it was closed; today this Free Church is ruin and found on left hand side road just before entering the village.
The plaque was unveiled in May 1920 and is copy of plaque in the Glencairn Parish Church at Kirkland; only different is the Parish Church memorial enclosed in a polished alabaster frame. Both plaques unveiled on same day with one service in morning and the other in evening.
The plaques made by Messrs Stewart, McGlasher & Son Ltd Edinburgh.
The 72 men and 1 woman are same on both plaques, appear in rank order; and the Rolls in Glencairn Institute have same names but they appear in alphabetical order.
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