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PostPosted: Tue Dec 09, 2008 4:01 pm    Post subject: Greengairs, North Lanarkshire Reply with quote

Situated on the B803 (Greengairs Road), Greengairs, near Airdrie
Map Reference: NS 783 704







Erected by The Inhabitants of Greengairs and District to their Fellow Parishioners
Who fell in the Great War, August 1914 - November 1918

Should this be a 'Church Memorial'? It's situated outside Greengairs Parish Church and the inscription would infer that it comemmorates 'Parishoners'.

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PostPosted: Tue Dec 09, 2008 5:09 pm    Post subject: Re: Greengairs, North Lanarkshire Reply with quote

apanderson wrote:
Should this be a 'Church Memorial'? It's situated outside Greengairs Parish Church and the inscription would infer that it comemmorates 'Parishioners'


I'd say if they'd used the word 'congregation' it would definitely be a church memorial. using 'Parishioners' is enough for me to say this should be classed as civic unless we find out otherwise.

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PostPosted: Tue Dec 09, 2008 7:18 pm    Post subject: Greengairs, North Lanarkshire Reply with quote

I would have to agree with Adam on this.
Men of this Parish or similar is a very common detail in WW1 memorial inscriptions throughout Scotland. They are some of the male parishioners and may well include men of all faiths, and none.
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 09, 2008 10:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The following are all from WW1.

(All identified except William Mackie and David Smith)

Name: AITKEN
Initials: W
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Scots Guards
Unit Text: 1st Bn.
Age: 28
Date of Death: 16/09/1916
Service No: 13051
Additional information: Son of Andrew and Jane Aitken, of Newmonkland, Lanarkshire.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Plot 2. Row C. Grave 79.
Cemetery: CORBIE COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION


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Name: BANKS, PETER
Initials: P
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)
Unit Text: 2nd Bn.
Date of Death: 09/05/1915
Service No: 1391
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Panels 24 to 26.
Memorial: LE TOURET MEMORIAL
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Name: BELL, PETER
Initials: P
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)
Unit Text: 8th Bn.
Age: 25
Date of Death: 21/10/1915
Service No: S/8660
Additional information: Son of Hugh Bell, of Greengairs, Airdrie; husband of Jeanie Steel Bell, of Salisbury Place, Hurlford, Ayrshire.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: I. F. 15.
Cemetery: RAILWAY DUGOUTS BURIAL GROUND
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 09, 2008 10:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Name: BROWN, DAVID
Initials: D
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Guardsman
Regiment/Service: Scots Guards
Unit Text: 2nd Bn.
Date of Death: 08/01/1919
Service No: 8316
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: X. B. 30.
Cemetery: MONS (BERGEN) COMMUNAL CEMETERY

Surname BROWN
Firstname David
Service Number 8316
Date Death 08/01/1919
Place of birth Airdrie
SNWM roll SCOTS GUARDS
Rank Gdsn
Theatre of death F.& F.
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Name: CAMPBELL, JAMES
Initials: J
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)
Unit Text: 1st Bn.
Age: 38
Date of Death: 13/10/1915
Service No: 3/3437
Additional information: Son of George and Annie Campbell; husband of Barbara Campbell, of 74, Johnston St., Airdrie, Lanarkshire.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 78 to 83.
Memorial: LOOS MEMORIAL
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Name: DORMAN, SAMUEL FULTON
Initials: S F
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)
Unit Text: "A" Coy. 1st Bn.
Age: 23
Date of Death: 24/10/1918
Service No: 52661
Additional information: Son of James and Isabella Dorman, of Langdales Cottage, Greengairs, Airdrie.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: VI. B. 4.
Cemetery: HIGHLAND CEMETERY, LE CATEAU
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Name: FLEMING, JOHN
Initials: J
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Cameron Highlanders
Unit Text: 6th Bn.
Age: 21
Date of Death: 18/07/1917
Service No: S/40583
Additional information: Son of George and Helen Fleming, of Flemington, Greengairs, Airdrie.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: I. D. 6.
Cemetery: DOZINGHEM MILITARY CEMETERY
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Name: GARDNER, DAVID
Initials: D
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Scots Guards
Unit Text: 2nd Bn.
Age: 32
Date of Death: 16/05/1915
Service No: 6433
Additional information: Husband of Mary Mackenzie Gardner, of Luckinhill, Greengairs, Airdrie.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 3 and 4.
Memorial: LE TOURET MEMORIAL

Name: GRANT, JEANIE
Initials: J
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Worker
Regiment/Service: Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps
Age: 22
Date of Death: 30/05/1918
Service No: 31918
Additional information: Daughter of Mrs. J. Grant, of "Burnfoot," Greengairs, Airdrie, Lanarkshire.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: IV. C. 7.
Cemetery: ABBEVILLE COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION

Abbeville Communal Cemetery courtesy of 'LoobyLou GWF', via forum member 'Tonym'

Jeanie Grant was one of nine QMAACs of No. 2 Army Supply Depot Mautort, Abbeville, France who died as the result of German bombing on 30th May 1918.



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Name: KEIR, GEORGE AITKEN
Initials: G A
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)
Unit Text: 7th Bn.
Date of Death: 31/08/1915
Service No: 1748
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 92 to 97.
Memorial: HELLES MEMORIAL

Surname KEIR
Firstname G A
Service Number 1748
Date Death 31/08/1915
Place of birth Airdrie
Other 7th Bn.
SNWM roll THE CAMERONIANS (SCOTTISH RIFLES)
Rank Pte
Theatre of death Dardanelles.
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Name: KINNISON
Initials: J K
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)
Unit Text: 4th/5th Bn.
Age: 22
Date of Death: 05/02/1918
Service No: 201898
Additional information: Son of Margaret Kinnison, of West End, Glamis, Forfar, and the late George Kinnison.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: IV. D. 27.
Cemetery: TINCOURT NEW BRITISH CEMETERY
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Name: KINNISON, WILLIAM
Initials: W
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)
Unit Text: 1st Bn.
Date of Death: 27/05/1917
Service No: 20903
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Bay 6.
Memorial: ARRAS MEMORIAL
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Name: LECKIE, ROBERT
Initials: R
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Highland Light Infantry
Unit Text: 8th Bn.
Secondary Regiment: Royal Scots
Secondary Unit Text: attd. 1st/7th Bn.
Age: 26
Date of Death: 22/05/1915
Service No: 7921
Additional information: Son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Leckie, of Boglea View, Greengairs, Airdrie, Lanarkshire. Born at Righead, New Monkland.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Cemetery: EDINBURGH (ROSEBANK) CEMETERY
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