The Scottish Military Research Group - Commemorations Project

allan1047 · Posted: Fri Sep 27, 2013 1:07 pm Post subject: Peter Caldwell

Peter Caldwell was a private in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, 7th Battalion.
Aged 21, he died on the 8th May 1915.
His service number was 1524.

He was the son of John and Elizabeth Caldwell, of 27, Parkburn Rd., Kilsyth.

Commonwealth War Dead Grave/Memorial Reference: 2nd Extn. 516. Cemetery: Kilsyth.

The 1901 Scotland Census shows the Caldwell family at Station Buildings, Kilsyth. John and Elizabeth both aged 41 and 8 children.

(Glasgow Herald 10th May 1915)
"Private Peter Caldwell, of the 7th Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders (Stirlingshire Territorials), has died in the Norwich and Norfolk Hospital at Norwich.
Private Caldwell was one of the Kilsyth Company of Territorials who took part in the big engagement at Hill 60, near Ypres, and was wounded in the thigh, Lockjaw had supervened.
He was a young man of 21 years of age, and resided with his widowed mother at 27 Parkburn Road, Kilsyth.
He was formerly employed as a miner."

allan1047 · Posted: Fri Sep 27, 2013 1:10 pm Post subject: William HB Comrie

William Hope Brown Comrie died on the 5th November 1918, 6 days before the end of the war, aged 21.
He was resident in Dennistoun but was born in Kilsyth.
He died at home in Glasgow.
He was a private in the Machine Gun Corps (infantry).
His service number was (151309), formally 2827 Glasgow Yeomanry.
He was buried in Kilsyth Cemetery.

1901 Scottish Census: William H B Comrie, aged 4 was the son of Matthew and Maggie Comrie.
There were another 5 children.
They lived at Deacon’s Road, Kilsyth.
The brother of Thomas C

allan1047 · Posted: Fri Sep 27, 2013 1:13 pm Post subject: Francis Coyle

Francis Coyle was born in Kilsyth about 1891 but lived in Croy, near Glasgow.
He died on the 5th January 1917 in France and Flanders.
He enlisted in Glasgow as a Gunner in the Royal Garrison Artillery.
His service number was (54652).

CWGC: Aged 26, RGA 4th Army Pool.

XXVI A5 Delville Wood Cemetery, Longueval, on the Somme.

Delville Wood was a tract of woodland, nearly 1 kilometre square, the western edge of which touched the village of Longueval in the Somme.
On 14 July 1916 the greater part of Longueval village was taken by the 9th (Scottish) Division and on the 15th, the South African Brigade of that Division captured most of Delville Wood.
The wood now formed a salient in the line, with Waterlot Farm and Mons Wood on the south flank still in German hands, and, owing to the height of the trees, no close artillery support was possible for defence.
The three South African battalions fought continuously for six days and suffered heavy casualties.
On 18 July, they were forced back and on the evening of the 20th the survivors, a mere handful of men, were relieved. On 27 July, the 2nd Division retook the wood and held it until 4 August when the 17th Division took it over.
On 18 and 25 August it was finally cleared of all German resistance by the 14th (Light) Division.
The wood was then held until the end of April 1918 when it was lost during the German advance, but was retaken by the 38th (Welsh) Division on the following 28 August.

He was the son of Francis and Martha Coyle of Kilsyth and husband of Annie Coyle, Slaths Land, Auckinstarry, Croy Station, Glasgow .

allan1047 · Posted: Fri Sep 27, 2013 1:15 pm Post subject: Peter Coyle

Peter Coyle died on the 25th September 1917 in France and Flanders.
He enlisted in Kilsyth as a private in Princess Louise’s (Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders), 2nd Battalion.
Service number S/40446.

CWGC: Panel 141 to 143 and 162, Tyne Cot Memorial, West Vlaanderen, Belguim .
There was little more significant activity on this front until 1917, when in the Third Battle of Ypres an offensive was mounted by Commonwealth forces to divert German attention from a weakened French front further south.
The initial attempt in June to dislodge the Germans from the Messines Ridge was a complete success, but the main assault north-eastward, which began at the end of July, quickly became a dogged struggle against determined opposition and the rapidly deteriorating weather.
The campaign finally came to a close in November with the capture of Passchendaele.
The TYNE COT MEMORIAL now bears the names of almost 35,000 officers and men whose graves are not known.
The memorial forms the north-eastern boundary of Tyne Cot cemetery, which was established around a captured German blockhouse or pill-box used as an advanced dressing station.
The original battlefield cemetery of 343 graves was greatly enlarged after the Armistice when remains were brought in from the battlefields of Passchendaele and Langemarck, and from a few small burial grounds.
It is now the largest Commonwealth war cemetery in the world in terms of burials.
At the suggestion of King George V, who visited the cemetery in 1922, the Cross of Sacrifice was placed on the original large pill-box.
There are three other pill-boxes in the cemetery.
There are now 11,956 Commonwealth servicemen of the First World War buried or commemorated in Tyne Cot Cemetery, 8,369 of these are unidentified.

allan1047 · Posted: Fri Sep 27, 2013 1:59 pm Post subject: William Coyle

William Coyle was born in Kilsyth but lived in Glasgow.
He died on the 4th November 1915 in France and Flanders.
He enlisted in Musselburgh, Midlothian
He was a private in the Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment) 11th battalion.
His service number was (12314)

CWGC: Panel 11 Ypres (Menin Gate )

allan1047 · Posted: Fri Sep 27, 2013 2:00 pm Post subject: Patrick Differ

Patrick Differ lived in Kilsyth.
He died on the 23rd June 1917 in France and Flanders.
He enlisted in Kilsyth in the Prince of Wales Leinster Regiment (Royal Canadians) 2nd Battalion.
His service number was 4812 and his rank was L/Corp.

CWGC: Lance Corporal (4812) died on the 23rd June 1917.
He was in the Leinster Regiment.
His name is on Panel 14 Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial.

allan1047 · Posted: Fri Sep 27, 2013 2:01 pm Post subject: Patrick Doherty

Patrick Doherty was born in Kilsyth.
He died on the 3rd August 1918 in France and Flanders.
He enlisted in Sterling as a private in the Prince of Wales Leinster Regiment (Royal Canadians) 2nd Battalion.
His service number was 4567.

CWGC: II F 30 British Cemetery Borre, France

UK CWG: Aged 21 born in Kilsyth about 1897. Father James Doherty, mother Margaret.

allan1047 · Posted: Fri Sep 27, 2013 2:02 pm Post subject: William Donaldson

William Donaldson was born in Banton, near Kilsyth.
He died on the 21st June 1916 in the Persian Gulf.
He enlisted in Kilsyth as a private in the Seaforth Highlanders, 1st Battalion.
His service number was S/3571.
He was killed in Action in the Asiatic Theatres.
Buried Al Basra Iraq, panel 37 and 64.

CWGC: Aged 21, son of Alexander Donaldson, Riskend Cottage, Kilsyth .
William Donaldson 3571 1st Seaforth Highlanders, was a member of the band .

1901 Census: Alexander and Margaret Donaldson lived in Banton, near Kilsyth with 5 children. William was 5 years old.

allan1047 · Posted: Sat Sep 28, 2013 1:49 pm Post subject: John Coyle

Corporal John Coyle (13387) 6th Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers
Born in Kilsyth and enlisted there.
He died on the 10th August 1915.
Killed in action. Balkan Theatre. (Gallipoli)
Grave/Memorial: Panel 190 to 196. Helles Memorial.

The eight month campaign in Gallipoli was fought by Commonwealth and French forces in an attempt to force Turkey out of the war, to relieve the deadlock of the Western Front in France and Belgium, and to open a supply route to Russia through the Dardanelles and the Black Sea.
The Allies landed on the peninsula on 25-26 April 1915; the 29th Division at Cape Helles in the south and the Australian and New Zealand Corps north of Gaba Tepe on the west coast, an area soon known as Anzac.
On 6 August, further landings were made at Suvla, just north of Anzac, and the climax of the campaign came in early August when simultaneous assaults were launched on all three fronts.
However, the difficult terrain and stiff Turkish resistance soon led to the stalemate of trench warfare.
From the end of August, no further serious action was fought and the lines remained unchanged.
The peninsula was successfully evacuated in December and early January 1916.

Irish War Memorial Records Reference: Volume II, Page 185.
Coyle, John Reg no 13387. Rank, corporal, Royal Dublin Fusiliers, 6th batt.; killed in action, Gallipoli, August 10, 1915; born Kilsyth.

1901 Census 102 Stoneyburn Whitburn, West Lothian
James Coyle 57 b Ireland
James Coyle 30
John Coyle 24
Samuel Coyle 23
Lizzie Coyle 20
Bridget Coyle 14
John Coyle 3 grandson born Kilsyth

allan1047 · Posted: Sat Sep 28, 2013 1:50 pm Post subject: William George Edmonstone

Lieutenant William George Edmonstone died on the 16th September 1916.
He was in the 2nd Battalion of the Coldstream Guards.

CWGC: He died on the 15th not the 16th September 1916, aged 19.
V.N.1 Guards’ Cemetery Lesboeufs.

Eldest son of Sir Archibald Edmonstone, 5th Bart., C.V.O., and Lady Edmonstone, of Duntreath Castle, Sterlingshire.

allan1047 · Posted: Sat Sep 28, 2013 1:52 pm Post subject: William Farrow

Private William Farrow was born in Kilsyth.
His service number was 6952.
He died on the 5th November 1914 aged 30.
He was in the Royal Scots Fusiliers, 1st Battalion.

Grave Reference: III. A. 23. Cemetery: Hazebrouck Communal Cemetery.

He was the husband of Sarah Farrow, of 11, Parkburn Road, Kilsyth.
Son of James and Catherine Farrow (nee Stark).

(Glasgow Herald 4th Dec 1914)
“William Farrow, of the Royal Scots Fusiliers, has succumbed to wounds received between Ypres and Hazebrouck, and has been buried in Hazebrouck cemetery.
Farrow was a Kilsyth miner, and was a reservist.
He leaves a widow and four children.”

allan1047 · Posted: Sat Sep 28, 2013 1:53 pm Post subject: Neil Fisher

Neil Fisher was born in Kilsyth and died on the 4th September 1917 in France and Flanders.
He enlisted in Ayr as a private in the Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment) 11th Battalion.
His service number was 273086.

Formerly 2054 Ayr Yeomanry, 203583 Royal Scots Fusiliers.

Buried: Zonnebeke, Belguim. Tyne Cot Memorial 11 to 14 and 162.

CWGC: Son of George and Helen Fisher, 89 King Street Ayr, husband of Janet B Fisher of 36 Parkfoot Street Kilsyth .
30 years old in 1917 so he was born about 1887.

allan1047 · Posted: Sat Sep 28, 2013 1:57 pm Post subject: Robert Frew

Captain Robert Dunlop Black Frew of Burnbank, Kilsyth.
He died on the 3rd August 1917 in Ypres, Belgium.

Captain Robert Dunlop Black Frew was in the Royal Army Medical Corps 1st/3rd (West Lancs) Field Ambulance.

He was aged 31 when he died on the 3rd August 1917

He was the son of David and Janet Frew (nee Brown), of Kilsyth, Glasgow. M.D., D.P.H.

CWGC: Reference: XV. A. 8. Lussenthoek Military Cemetery.

1901 Census Burngreen Terrace (Burnbank House)
David Frew 56 b Kilsyth Architect J.P.
Janet B Frew 55
Alex Frew 29
Hamilton B Frew 23
David Frew Jns 25
John B Frew 23
William Frew 22
Jessie D Frew 19
Jas A Frew 13
Robert D B Frew 15 b Kilsyth
Jeffrey P Frew 9
Sarah Smith 22 Servant.

allan1047 · Posted: Sat Sep 28, 2013 1:59 pm Post subject: James Garrie

James Garrie was born in Kilsyth and died on the 13th February 1918 in France and Flanders.
He enlisted in Kirkintilloch as a private in the Gordon Highlanders, 8/10th Battalion.
His service number was 292507.

CWGC: Aged 21, the son of George and Margaret Garrie, 2 Parkfoot Cottage, Kilsyth.

Windmill British Cemetery Monchy-le Preux .

1901 Census: George A Garrie and his wife, Margaret had 5 children in 1901 and James was the middle child, aged 4.
They lived at 1 Burnside Street, Kilsyth.

allan1047 · Posted: Sat Sep 28, 2013 2:01 pm Post subject: Daniel Glancey

Daniel Peter Paul Glancey was born about 1883 in Kilsyth.
He joined the 1st Battalion Highland Light Infantry on the 20th December 1904 in Glasgow.
He was killed in action, aged 34, on the 19th December 1914.
Service number (9607).
He was the son of Patrick and Elizabeth Glancey of 12 Edward Street Kilsyth.
CWGC: Panel 37 & 38 Le Touret Memorial.
Medical history.
5’3” tall, 124 lbs, chest 33/36, Fresh complexion, blue grey eyes and dark brown hair.
Fit for duty 20th December 1904. Glasgow.