The Scottish Military Research Group - Commemorations Project

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Ardrossan has two World War Memorials. The large sanstone WW1 memorial on South Beach Promenade and a smaller WW2 memorial in a small Garden of Remembrance on Glasgow Street. You pass this memorial on your left as you go through the long road (Glasgow Street) that leads to the Arran Ferry terminal.


UKNIWM Ref No 9778




Main Inscription

GARDEN OF REMEMBRANCE
1939 IN GRATEFUL MEMORY OF 1945
THOSE WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES
IN THE WORLD WAR

Names of the fallen in 3 columns. Names arranged alphabetically by surname. Forename, middle initial, surname given. Two identical names also are given regiment or service. Rank, decorations, place and date of death not given

Column 1

WILLIAM G. ADAM
WILLIAM G. ADAMS
CHARLES AITKEN
JAMES AUSTIN
GEORGE BALLANTYNE
ROBERT BARCLAY
RALPH A.W. BARR
PATRICK BARTLEY
WILLIAM BELL CAMERONS
WILLIAM BELL R.A.F.
FRANCIS BRADY
RODERICK BROWN
WILLIAM BROWN
HAROLD BUSBRIDGE
RICHARD CALDER
CHARLES CAMPBELL
GEORGE COOK
SIDNEY K. COLEMAN
JAMES CRANSTON
DAVID CRAWFORD
JOHN CUMMING
JAMES CUNNINGHAM
JOHN M. DODDS
JOHN B. DUNCAN
JOHN DUNLOP
RICHARD E. EASTERBROOK
JOHN E. EVANS
ARCHIBALD J. FLEMING
WILLIAM GILLESPIE
THOMAS GRAHAM
JAMES DODDS


Column 2

JOHN HARVEY
ALEXANDER HENDERSON
WILLIAM N. HUGHES
HUGH JOHNSTONE
THOMAS JOHNSTONE
KARL M. JORGENSEN
ROBERT KYLE
WILLIAM LOGUE
JAMES LONG
JOHN LYNN
STEPHEN McATEER
WILLIAM McAULIFFE
PATRICK McCANN
DAVID McCARTNEY
PETER McCREADIE
DAVID McCUBBIN
JAMES McCUBBIN
JOHN McCUBBIN
JOSEPH McCULLOCH
DAVID McGINN
WILLIAM McGINN
JOSEPH McILHATTON
ROBERT McKAY M.N.
ROBERT McKAY R.A.F.
ROBERT McKECHAN
WILLIAM McLAUGHLAND
WILLIAM McLELLAN
WILLIAM H. McMILLAN
NEIL McNICOL
JOHN McPOLIN
FRANCIS McQUADE


Column 3

GORDON MACTAVISH
ALBERT MALCOLM
ROBERT MALCOLM
CHARLES MARTIN
JOHN G. MELLOR
PETER MONAGHAN
ARCHIBALD MORGAN
SAMUEL MORRISON
JOHN MORTON
ROBERT S. MURCHIE
PATRICK MURRAY
WILLIAM NORRIS
HARRY NORTHCOTE
DAVID NORWOOD
JOSEPH OTTY
ALEXANDER M. PHILLIPS
MARK RAMSAY
RICHARD REID
JOHN SHEARER
ROBERT W. SHEARER
MATTHEW SIM
JAMES STEWART
JAMES SUMMERS
ALEXANDER THOMSON
WILLIAM J. TOMELTY
JOSEPH TOWNSLEY
KENNETH S. WATSON
JOHN WEATHERSTONE
CORNELIUS WELSH
JOHN B. YUILLE
JOHN McKAY


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In 2017 the memorial was turned round to face into the garden, so that when services etc are held people can stand in the garden, rather than on the road. The money to do this was raised by a friends group, who also organised the work