The Scottish Military Research Group - Commemorations Project

allan1047 · Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2013 1:44 pm Post subject: Patrick McCann

Patrick McCann was a private (18093) 1st Btn Royal Dublin Fusiliers.
Born in Kilsyth, Stirling and enlisted in Kilsyth.
He died on the 4th June 1915.
Killed in action.

CWGC: Grave/Memorial: Panel 190 to 196. Helles Memorial.

Memorial, Edinburgh Castle, Edinburgh.
IWM Records Page No: Volume V, Page 283.

allan1047 · Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2013 1:46 pm Post subject: William McCann

Born in Kilsyth and resided in Burnbank, Lanarkshire.
He died on the 17th May 1915 in France and Flanders.
He enlisted in Hamilton and was a Lance / Corporal in the Highland Light Infantry 1st Battalion.
His service number was 8283.

Find a grave: L/C William W McCann Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France.

CWGC: panel 37 and 38 Le Touret Memorial.
In October 1914, II Corps of the British Expeditionary Force moved north from Picardy and took up positions in French Flanders where they were immediately engaged in the series of attacks and counter attacks that would become known as the ‘race to the sea’.
Over the course of the next year most of the British activity in this sector focused on attempting to dislodge the German forces from their advantageous position on the Aubers Ridge and capture the city of Lille, a major industrial and transport centre which the Germans had occupied early in the war.
The ridge is a slight incline in an otherwise extremely flat landscape from which the Germans were able to observe and bombard the British lines.
Following the British capture of the village of Neuve Chapelle in March 1915, the Germans greatly strengthened their defences along the ridge, reinforcing their positions with thick barbed wire entanglements, concrete blockhouses and machine gun emplacements.
These extra defences frustrated British attempts to break through enemy lines and led to very heavy casualties at the battles of Aubers Ridge and Festubert in May 1915.

allan1047 · Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2013 1:47 pm Post subject: Patrick McDermott

Patrick McDermott was a private in the Highland Light Infantry 12th Battalion.
He was aged 22, he died on the 25th March 1918.
His service No: 25139

Additional Information: Son of John and Helen McDermott (nee Bryce)

1901 Scotland Census: 4 Medowside, Kilsyth.
John Mcdermid 33 b Coatbridge coalminer
Helen 33 b Kilsyth
John 7
Thomas 6
Patrick Mcdermid 5 b Kilsyth

CWGC: Panel 72. Pozieres Memorial.

The Pozieres Memorial relates to the period of crisis in March and April 1918 when the Allied Fifth Army was driven back by overwhelming numbers across the former Somme battlefields, and the months that followed before the Advance to Victory, which began on 8 August 1918.

The Memorial commemorates over 14,000 casualties of the United Kingdom and 300 of the South African Forces who have no known grave and who died on the Somme from 21 March to 7 August 1918.

allan1047 · Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2013 1:49 pm Post subject: Duncan McDonald

Duncan McDonald was born in Kilsyth and died on the 26th April 1915 in France and Flanders.
He enlisted in Kilsyth for the 1/7th Battalion Princess Louise’s Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders.
His service number was 2197.

Son of Alexander and Jeanie Macdonald of 20 Register Road Kilsyth.

1901 Census: 29 High Street Kilsyth
Alexander McDonald 31 settmaker
Jane 28 b Kilsyth
Duncan 5 b Kilsyth
James 4
Annie 2
Alexr 2 months

CWGC: Memorial: Ypres (Menin Gate) Panel 42 and 44

allan1047 · Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2013 1:50 pm Post subject: Francis mcGeough

Private Francis McGeough was in the 2nd Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers
His service number was 12798.
He enlisted in Kilsyth, but was born in Cumbernauld, Dumbartonshire.
He died on the 12th October 1916 in France.

CWGC: Pier and face 16 C Thiepval Memorial

On 1 July 1916, supported by a French attack to the south, thirteen divisions of Commonwealth forces launched an offensive on a line from north of Gommecourt to Maricourt.
Despite a preliminary bombardment lasting seven days, the German defences were barely touched and the attack met unexpectedly fierce resistance.
Losses were catastrophic and with only minimal advances on the southern flank, the initial attack was a failure.
In the following weeks, huge resources of manpower and equipment were deployed in an attempt to exploit the modest successes of the first day.

allan1047 · Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2013 1:51 pm Post subject: John McGilvray

John McGilvray was born and lived in Kilsyth but enlisted in Sterling.
He was a private in the Highland Light Infantry 18th Battalion (4th Glasgow).
His service number was 30252 and he was 29 when he died on the 28th November 1916 in France and Flanders.

CWGC: he was the son of William and Mary McGilvray Kilsyth.
IJ 43 Faubourg D’Amiens Cemetery Arras.

1901 Census
Barrwood Kilsyth
William 50,
Mary 49,
Wm 18,
Peter 16,
John McGilvray 14, born Kilsyth,
Agnes 11,
Lizzie 9.

allan1047 · Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2013 1:54 pm Post subject: Robert McGlinchey

Private Robert McGlinchey was in "C" Company 6th Battalion, Royal Dublin Fusiliers.
His service number was 13034
He was born in Derry, Ireland, lived in Kildrum, Co Derry.
He enlisted in Kilsyth (Aug 1914).
Aged 34 he died on the 10th October 1915

Family Notes: Son of Robert and Mary McGlinchey, of Kildrum, Killea, Londonderry.

Pte R. McGlinchey, 6th Battalion Dublin Fusiliers, has been missing in the Dardanelles since August 10th.
His father resides at Kildrum, Derry.
The Derry Standard, 11 October 1915.

Special Notes: Private McGlinchey is not listed on the IWM records.

Grave/Memorial: Panel 190 to 196. Helles Memorial.

Other Memorials: Private McGlinchey is commemorated on, the Kilsyth War Memorial, Burngreen Peace Gardens, Burngreen Road, Kilsyth; he is also named in, the Roll of Honour Books, in the Scottish War Memorial, Edinburgh Castle.

allan1047 · Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2013 1:56 pm Post subject: John McIllwaine

Private John Mcilwain was born in Greenock, Renfrewshire but lived in Kilsyth, where he enlisted.
He died on the 14th July 1916 in France and Flanders, aged 33.
So he was born in 1883.
He was a private in the 7th Battalion of the Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs, the Duke of Albany’s).
His service number was S/2528.

CWGC: aged 33 pier and face 15C Thiepval Memorial
On 1 July 1916, supported by a French attack to the south, thirteen divisions of Commonwealth forces launched an offensive on a line from north of Gommecourt to Maricourt.
Despite a preliminary bombardment lasting seven days, the German defences were barely touched and the attack met unexpectedly fierce resistance.
Losses were catastrophic and with only minimal advances on the southern flank, the initial attack was a failure.

He was the son of William McIlwain.
Husband of M. Jones (formerly McIlwain), of 187 Clinton Street, Paterson, New Jersey, USA.

allan1047 · Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2013 1:57 pm Post subject: William McIllwaine

Private William McIlwain was born in Greenock, Renfrewshire.
He lived in Kilsyth.
He died on the 19th February 1915 in France and Flanders.
He was in the 1st Battalion of the Princess Louise’s (Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders).
His service number was S/1708.

CWGC: Panel 42 and 44 Ypres (Ieper) West Flanders, West Vlaanderen, Belgium.

allan1047 · Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2013 1:57 pm Post subject: Alexander McInnes

Alexander McInnes was born in Kilsyth.
He died on the 18th April 1918 in France and Flanders.
He enlisted as a private in the princess Louise’s (Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders) 10th Battalion.
His service number was S/4394.
Killed in Action Western European Theatre

CWGC: Pozieres Memorial

allan1047 · Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2013 1:59 pm Post subject: Alex McKenzie

Alexander MacKenzie was born in Kilsyth and died on the 3rd May 1915, aged 33 in France and Flanders.
He enlisted in Kilsyth to join Princess Louise’s (Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders) 1/7th Battalion.
His service number was 331.

CWGC: Alexander Mackenzie aged 33 of the A&SH
Addenda Panel 59 Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial

Son of the late Mr and Mrs James Mackenzie of Kilsyth.

allan1047 · Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2013 2:00 pm Post subject: Hector McLean

Hector Archibald Lamont McLean was born in Kilsyth but enlisted in Glasgow.
He died on the 4th January 1918 at home and was buried in Kilsyth Cemetery.
He was a private in the Highland Light Infantry, 16th (Service) Battalion (2nd Glasgow).
Service number 40624.
Int find a grave: Aged 24 born 1894, burial Kilsyth. 1st Ext 148

CWGC: Hector Archibald McLean was the son of John and Jeanie McLean aged 24 (born 1894)

1901 census: 19 Smith St Glasgow Govan
John McLean 42
Jeannie 43
Hector A McLean 6

allan1047 · Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2013 2:02 pm Post subject: Constantine McMahon

Constantene McMahon was born in Glasgow but resided in Kilsyth,
Private Constantine McMahon died on the 11th March 1917 in France and Flanders.
He was in the 14th (Service) Battalion of the Highland Light Infantry service no 23701.
He was killed in action in the Western European Theatre.

CWGC: V D 22 Peronne Communal Cementery Extension.

Peronne was taken by the German's on 24 September 1914.
On 18 March 1917, the 40th and 48th Divisions captured the town, but it was recovered by the Germans on the 23rd March 1918.
It changed hands for the last time on 1 September 1918, when it was taken by the 2nd Australian Division

The cemetery extension was begun by the 48th (South Midland) Division in March 1917, used by the Germans in 1918, and resumed by Australian units in September 1918.
At the Armistice it contained 177 graves, now in Plots I and II.

allan1047 · Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2013 2:03 pm Post subject: Robert McManus

He was born in 1870 and moved to Kilsyth in 1900.
In 1901 he lived at 42 Brick Row, Kilsyth.
Born in Chryston he died on the 28th September 1915, aged 43, in France and Flanders.
He was in the Royal Scots Fusiliers 7th Battalion.
His service number was 13277.

CWGC: XII C 2 Cabaret-Rouge British Cemetery, Souchez
Caberet Rouge was a small, red-bricked, red-tiled café that stood close to this site in the early days of the First World War.
The café was destroyed by shellfire in March 1915 but it gave its unusual name to this sector and to a communication trench that led troops up the front-line.
Commonwealth soldiers began burying their fallen comrades here in March 1916.
The cemetery was used mostly by the 47th (London) Division and the Canadian Corps until August 1917 and by different fighting units until September 1918.
It was greatly enlarged in the years after the war when as many as 7,000 graves were concentrated here from over 100 other cemeteries in the area.
For much of the twentieth century, Cabaret Rouge served as one of a small number of ‘open cemeteries’ at which the remains of fallen servicemen newly discovered in the region were buried.
Today the cemetery contains over 7,650 burials of the First World War, over half of which remain unidentified.

Son of Francis Kilaythe and Elizabeth McManus; husband of Catherine of 96 Bridgend, Glasgow.

allan1047 · Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2013 2:04 pm Post subject: Charles McPherson

Charles Macpherson died on the 27th November 1915.
His service number was 76486

CWGC: Sapper C Macpherson 76486 aged 18 Royal Engineers 2nd ext Kilsyth Cemetery

Son of Hugh and Janet Macpherson of 27 Kelvinside Avenue