The Scottish Military Research Group - Commemorations Project

[David McNay]

Pettinain is another small village which you would only visit if you were specifically going there.

The memorial I think may have originally been in the village square, such as it was, but it appears to have been moved into the churchyard.

DSCN9205 by Scottish Military Research Group, on Flickr

DSCN9206 by Scottish Military Research Group, on Flickr

[alexmaclennan]

Inscription above names of fallen

THE GREAT WAR
1914 - 1919

Names of the fallen, arranged by date of death. Rank, forename, surname, regiment date and age at death given.

PTE. THOMAS THOMSON 5TH CAMERON HIGHLDS.
KILLED 14TH JULY 1916 AGED 22 YEARS
PTE. WILLIAM BARRIE 10TH S.R.
DIED OF WOUNDS 22ND JULY 1916 AGED 22 YEARS
PTE. ANDREW K. H. MILLER 9TH S.R.
KILLED 9TH APRIL 1917 AGED 21 YEARS
SIGR. ROBERT CROSBIE R.G.A.
KILLED 4TH JULY 1917 AGED 21 YEARS
GUNR. THOMAS BROWN R.G.A.
DIED OF WOULNDS 14TH SEP. 1917 AGED 22 YEARS
PTE. JOHN POTTER 2ND A. & S.H.
KILLED 25TH SEP. 1917 AGED 39 YEARS
PTE. JAMES GRAY S.G.
KILLED 25TH NOV. 1917 AGED 22 YEARS
SEC. LIEUT. WILLIAM A. HUNTER R.A.F.
DROWNED 3RD JULY 1918 AGED 21 YEARS
SEC. LIEUT. ANDREW J. PRENTICE R.A.F.
KILLED 16TH OCT.1918 AGED 19 YEARS
“WHAT CAN A MAN DO MORE THAN DIE FOR HIS COUNTRYMEN”


Main Dedication Inscription on Front face Plinth

ERECTED BY THE PUBLIC OF PETTINAIN,
IN HONOUR OF THE MEN OF THE PARISH WHO FELL
IN THE STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM AND RIGHT


alex
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alex maclennan

[Mike Morley]

Name: BARRIE, W
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Service Number: 17647
Regiment/Service: Cameronians (Scottish Rifles), 10th Bn
Date of Death: 22/7/1916
Grave Reference: IV A 13
Cemetery: Longueness (St Omer) Souvenir Cemetery

Also named on Carstairs Junction and Carstairs Village War Memorials.

[Mike Morley]

Name: THOMSON, THOMAS ALEXANDER
Initials: TA
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Service Number: S/20791
Regiment/Service: Cameron Highlanders, 5th Bn
Date of Death: 14/7/1916
Additional Information: Son of the late Robert and Jean Ogilvie Thomson.
Panel Reference: Pier and Face 15B
Memorial: Thiepval Memorial.

[Mike Morley]

Name: MILLER, AKH
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Service Number: 40925
Regiment/Service: Cameronians (Scottish Rifles), 9th Bn
Date of Death: 9/4/1917
Additional Information: Son of Mr. R. Miller, of Coraigburn, Braidwood, Lanarkshire.
Grave Reference: I B 9
Cemetery: Highland Cemetery, Roclincourt.

[Mike Morley]

Name: CROSBIE, R
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Gunner
Service Number: 95859
Regiment/Service: Royal Garrison Artillery, 163rd Siege Bty
Date of Death: 4/7/1917
Age: 21
Additional Information: Son of Thomas and Margaret Crosbie, of Auchinraith Estate, Bothwell, Lanarkshire.
Grave Reference: III E 1
Cemetery: Vlamertinghe New Military Cemetery.

[Mike Morley]

Name: BROWN, THOMAS
Initials: T
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Gunner
Service Number: 307618
Regiment/Service: Royal Garrison Artillery, 104th Siege Bty
Date of Death: 14/9/1917
Age: 23
Additional Information: Son of James and Elizabeth Gardiner Calder Brown, of "Westraw," Pettinain, Thankerton, Lanarkshire.
Grave Reference: I H 24
Cemetery: Voormezeele Enclosures No 1 and No 2.

[Mike Morley]

Name: POTTER, JOHN
Initials: J
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Service Number: S/16354
Regiment/Service: Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders,
Date of Death: 25/9/1917
Age: 39
Addditional Information: Son of Catherine Potter, of Uddingston, Lanarkshire, and the late Alexander Potter; husband of Mary Ritchie Smith Potter, of Cloburn, Thankerton.
Panel Reference: Addenda Panel 165
Memorial: Tyne Cot Memorial.

[Mike Morley]

Name: GRAY, JAMES
Initials: J
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Service Number: 12960
Regiment/Service: Scots Guards, 2nd Bn
Date of Death: 25/11/1917
Panel Reference: Panel 2
Memorial: Cambrai Memorial, Louverval.

[Mike Morley]

Name: HUNTER, WILLIAM ALEXANDER
Initials: WA
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Second Lieutenant
Regiment/Service: Royal Air Force, Training Depot Station
Date of Death: 3/7/1918
Age: 21
Additional Information: Son of Elizabeth Hunter, of St. Ronans, Lanark, and the late David Hunter.
Cemetery: Pettinain Parish Churchyard

[Mike Morley]

Name: PRENTICE, AJ
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Second Lieutenant
Regiment/Service: Royal Air Force, 42nd Training Depot Station
Date of Death: 16/10/1918
Age: 19
Additional Information: Son of Charles and Mary Leathead Prentice, of Westraw Mains. Pettinain.
Grave Reference: Pettinain Parish Churchyard.

[Kenneth Morrison]

[Kenneth Morrison]