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Lt A D Chalmers, Kippford

 
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 15, 2011 4:37 pm    Post subject: Lt A D Chalmers, Kippford Reply with quote

Lt A.D. Chalmers War Memorial
Location: Kippford Village Hall, The Green
OS NGR: NX 83732 55418
Date of Unveiling: tbc
Number of Pre-1914 Names: N/A
Number of WW1 Names: 1
Number of Inter-War Names: N/A
Number of WW2 Names: N/A
Number of Post-1945 Names: N/A
Memorial type: Other – Land gifted for hall and car park

Not listed on UKNIWM

This memorial is not the village hall itself but rather the land that the hall and car park occupies as made clear in the inscription below Lt Chalmers painting inside the hall.

Lt Chalmers is listed on the Colvend war memorial.

Name: CHALMERS, ARCHIBALD DOUGLAS
Initials: A D
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Lieutenant
Regiment/Service: Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
Unit Text: 1st Bn.
Age: 29
Date of Death: 09/12/1918
Additional information: Son of Mrs. A. J. Chalmers, of Hartley, Ayr, and the late Archibald Chalmers, of Kipp, Dalbeattie.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: 882.
Cemetery: MIKRA BRITISH CEMETERY, KALAMARIA





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Kenneth Morrison



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PostPosted: Tue Mar 15, 2011 6:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Paul. So pleased you got this. It's been on my list forever.



Archibald Douglas Chalmers, Lieutenant 1st Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. Age 29.
Born 1880 at Ayr. Son of Archibald and Anne Jane (Cowan) Chalmers of Kipp House, Kippford, Dalbeattie. Educated at Merchiston Castle, Edinburgh he went to Ceylon in 1913 to take up tea planting. He returned in February 1916, trained at Gailes O.T.C. and was gazetted 2nd Lt. A&SH in August 1916. He joined the battalion in Salonica in September 1917. Died 9 December 1918 from enteric fever at No. 28 General Hospital, buried at Mikra British Cemetery Kalamaria, Greece.
He is also named on a memorial in Christ Church Warleigh, Dikoya, Sri Lanka.
[See following post from Moriaty]


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PostPosted: Wed Jan 14, 2015 12:34 pm    Post subject: Lt A D Chalmers - remembered in Ceylon Reply with quote

A member of the Great War Forum recently visited the little 19th century Anglican church of Christ Church, Warleigh, Dikoya in Ceylon/ Sr Lanka.

There is a bronze Great War roll of honour in the church and among the names is AD Chalmers. After I quick web search I came across this entry and see that Archibald Douglas Chalmers is remembered in both Scotland and Ceylon where he worked as a tea planter.

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PostPosted: Wed Jan 14, 2015 4:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Moriaty

That's great to get information like this where Scottish soldiers are commemorated on other memorials. I think this is the first one to be found in Sri Lanka.

Thanks

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PostPosted: Wed Jan 18, 2017 7:22 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

This is now WMR/UKNIWM record 71886
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