The Scottish Military Research Group - Commemorations Project

allan1047 · Posted: Sat Sep 28, 2013 2:05 pm Post subject: Robert Goodwin

Robert Goodwin was born in Kilsyth.
He was a Private in the Scots Guards 2nd Battalion.
He died on the 5th October 1915 in France and Flanders
His service number was 12374
He was the son of William and Elizabeth Burns Goodwin (nee Aitchison), of Stirling Rd., Kilsyth,

Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 8 and 9. Loos Memorial.

allan1047 · Posted: Sat Sep 28, 2013 2:06 pm Post subject: Duncan Grey

Duncan Grey was born in Kilsyth and died on the 25th September 1915 in France and Flanders.
He enlisted in Glasgow as a private in the Queens Own Cameron Highlanders, 5th Battalion.
His service number was S/17884.

Find a grave: Pas-de-Calais, Nord, France

CWGC: panel 119 to 124 Loos memorial aged 34

Son of Mrs Agnes Gray of 7 Townhead, Kirkintilloch, Dumbartons.

allan1047 · Posted: Sat Sep 28, 2013 2:08 pm Post subject: John Gray

John Graham Gray was a private in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders 1st/9th Battalion.
Secondary Regiment: Royal Engineers
Secondary Unit Text: attd. 184th Coy.
Age: 26
He died on the 16 May 1917.
His service number was 325760

He was the son of Alexander and Robina Gray (nee Graham), of Parkburn Rd., Kilsyth, husband of Jean Shedden Kean Gray, of 4, Victoria St., Dumbarton.

Grave/Memorial Reference: Bay 9. Arras Memorial.
Inscription lists rank as Sergeant.

allan1047 · Posted: Sun Sep 29, 2013 11:38 am Post subject: Lieutenant Samuel Bankier

Lieutenant Samuel Bankier died on the Somme on the 16th April 1918
The 1901 Scotland Census shows a Bankier family living at 39 High Craigends.
James and Margaret Bankier were the parents and they had 7 children. Jessie aged 14, Cressie aged 12, Samuel aged 14, William aged 10, Jemima aged 6, John aged 2 and George aged 1.
He was 29 years old when he died in 1918.
He was in the Australian Infantry (AIF) 4th Battalion.
He was the son of James and Margaret Gillies Bankier of “Craigview”, 41 Craigends, Kilsyth.

CWGC: He is remembered in Villers-Bretonneux Memorial.
Villers-Bretonneux became famous in 1918, when the German advance on Amiens ended in the capture of the village by their tanks and infantry on 23 April.
On the following day, the 4th and 5th Australian Divisions, with units of the 8th and 18th Divisions, recaptured the whole of the village and on 8 August 1918, the 2nd and 5th Australian Divisions advanced from its eastern outskirts in the Battle of Amiens.
The memorial is the Australian National Memorial erected to commemorate all Australian soldiers who fought in France and Belgium during the First World War, to their dead, and especially to name those of the dead whose graves are not known.

allan1047 · Posted: Sun Sep 29, 2013 11:42 am Post subject: Robert Black

Robert Black was born in Kilsyth.
He died on the 11th May 1917 in France and Flanders aged 28.
His service number was (S40423)
He joined the 9th (Service) battalion Black Watch (Royal Highlanders).
He was an Acting Corporal, died of wounds, Western European Theatre.

He was the son of Robert and Mary Black of 20 Parkfoot Street, Kilsyth.

CWGC: XVIII.M.5. Cemetery Etaples
During the First World War, the area around Etaples was the scene of immense concentrations of Commonwealth reinforcement camps and hospitals.
It was remote from attack, except from aircraft, and accessible by railway from both the northern or the southern battlefields.
In 1917, 100,000 troops were camped among the sand dunes and the hospitals, which included eleven general, one stationary, four Red Cross hospitals and a convalescent depot, could deal with 22,000 wounded or sick.
In September 1919, ten months after the Armistice, three hospitals and the Q.M.A.A.C. convalescent depot remained.

Part II UK graves A to Costa.

1901 census: Robert Black aged 9. (born 1892 in Glasgow)
Parents: Robert 31, born in Edinburgh and Mary 26, born in Blantyre, Lanarkshire.
Robert senior was a coal miner
16 Parkfoot Street Kilsyth

allan1047 · Posted: Sun Sep 29, 2013 11:45 am Post subject:

2nd Lieutenant George Clark Bow died on the 25th March 1917.
He was in the Argyll and Sutherland highlanders, 7th Battalion, but was attached to the Machine Gun Corps (Infantry).
He was killed in Basra, Iraq and is remembered in the memorial there (panel 41).

George’s parents, William Rankin Bow and Jane Hamilton Park - married 25th December 1884
Jane Hamilton Park born at Doune Perthshire, 30th July 1862.-
They had 3 children
1. Robert Rankin Bow, born Bogside, 4th March 1886
2. Marion Bow, born South Broomage, Larbert, 13th June 1888
3. George Clark Bow, born The Hollies, Larbert, 28th June 1890 .

allan1047 · Posted: Sun Sep 29, 2013 12:37 pm Post subject: Henry Fleming

Henry Fleming was a guardsman in the 1st Battalion of the Scots Guards.
His service number was 8217.
He died on the 11th November 1914 aged 23.

CWGC: Panel 11. Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial.
He was the son of Henry Fleming, of 18, Zetland Place, Lumphinnans, Fife.

(Glasgow Herald 19th Feb 1915)
"Official notice sent to his parents states that Corporal Henry Fleming, a Kilsyth lad, in the 2nd Battalion of the Scots Guards, has been missing since November 13."

allan1047 · Posted: Sun Sep 29, 2013 1:53 pm Post subject: Archibald Haggarty

Archibald Haggerty was born in Kirkintilloch, Dumbartonshire, but lived in Kilsyth.
He died on the 10th July 1916 at home aged 24.
He was a Private in Princess Louise’s (Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders) 3rd Battalion.
His service number was 429.
CWGC: Buried Kirkintilloch (Auld Aisle) Cemetery

Son of Margaret Haggerty, of Montgomery Lodge, Dunoon, Argyll.

1901 Census: Archibald Haggerty was 8 years old and living at 3 Hillhead, Kirkintilloch.

allan1047 · Posted: Sun Sep 29, 2013 1:58 pm Post subject: Duncan Miles Hartley

Duncan Miles Hartley was born in Kirkintilloch, Dumbartonshire.
He lived and enlisted in Kilsyth.
He joined the Kings Own Scottish Borderers 1st battalion, service number 14323.
He died on the 2nd June 1917 in France and Flanders.

CWGC: He is remembered at the Arras memorial.
Bay 6 Arras Memorial.

1901 Census: Duncan Hartley was 5 years old and the adopted son of William and Elizabeth Hartley.
They lived at Low Craigends, Kilsyth.
He was born in Dumbartons.

1891 Census: William Hartley and Eliz Fergus are at Low Craigend, Kilsyth with a niece and nephew.

allan1047 · Posted: Sun Sep 29, 2013 2:01 pm Post subject: David Hilligan D.C.M.

David Holligan DCM was born in Kilsyth and died on the 26th September 1915 in France and Flanders.
He was a private in the Seaforth Highlanders, (Cross-Shire Buff’s, the Duke of Albany’s) 8th Battalion.
His service number was S/2793.
He died of wounds, Western European Theatre.
Awarded the DCM
DCM LG Vol 16.11. Page 1915 A21 - 16

Remembered Nord Pas de Calais.

In the 1901 Scotland Census the Holligan family consisted of Hugh and Janet and 5 children including David, aged 6 and born in Kilsyth.
Hugh was born in Ayrshire and Janet in Kilsyth.

allan1047 · Posted: Sun Sep 29, 2013 2:12 pm Post subject: Robert Irvine

Robert Irvine was born and lived in Kilsyth.
He was Acting/Sergeant in the King’s Own Scottish Borderers 1st Battalion.
He enlisted in Sterling and died in the Dardanelles on the 11th August 1915.
His service number was 7928, killed in action, Balkan Theatre .

CWGC: Sp mem C 318 Twelve Tree Copse Cemetery, Turkey.
Twelve Tree Copse Cemetery, Turkey was made after the Armistice when graves were brought in from isolated sites and small burial grounds on the battlefields of April-August and December 1915.

allan1047 · Posted: Sun Sep 29, 2013 2:13 pm Post subject: David Jennings

Sergeant David Jennings was born and lived in Kilsyth.
He enlisted in Sterling to join the 1/7th Battalion of Princess Louise’s (Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders).
His service number was S/24291.
He died on the 13th October 1918 in France and Flanders.
Died of his wounds, Western European Theatre.

CWGC: Auberchicourt British Cemetery II. D. 5. Nord France
The village of Auberchicourt was occupied by Commonwealth troops in October 1918.
The cemetery was begun at the end of that month and used until February 1919 while the 6th, 23rd and 1st Canadian Casualty Clearing Stations were in the neighbourhood.
These original graves are in Plot I, but the cemetery was enlarged after the Armistice when graves (mainly of 1918-19, but also of August 1914) were brought in from the surrounding battlefields and from the following smaller burial grounds.

allan1047 · Posted: Sun Sep 29, 2013 2:15 pm Post subject: George Kelly

He was born in Kilsyth and died 27th October 1918 in France and Flanders.
He enlisted in Sterling as a private in the Highland Light Infantry, 12th Service Battalion.
His service number was 42572.
He was formerly 24501 in the Royal Scots Fusiliers.

CWGC: 3rd extension 274 in Kilsyth Cemetery.
Son of Christopher Kelly, born in Kilsyth, aged 28 in 1918, so born about 1890.

1901 Scotland Census: Son of Christopher and Ellen Kelly living at Station Buildings, Kilsyth.
George was one of 6 children as well as Christopher’s brother, Edward and 2 of his children.

1891 Census: George is 5 months old and living with his parents at Chapelgreen, Kilsyth. His father, Christopher was an ironstone miner.

allan1047 · Posted: Sun Sep 29, 2013 2:19 pm Post subject: Charles Riddell Laing

Charles Riddell Laing was a private in the Seaforth Highlanders, 1st/6th Battalion.
He was aged 20 when he died on the 24th July 1918
His service number was 285392
He was the son of the late James and Elizabeth Grace Laing, of 64, Newtown St., Kilsyth,
CWGC: Grave/Memorial Reference: B. 1.
Cemetery: Sezanne Communal Cemetery

Other 6th Bn. formerly 202853 A. & S.H.

1901 Census: 58 Newtown Street Kilsyth
James Laing 45 born Kilsyth settmaker
Grace Laing 37
Maggie I 11
James 9
Jennie B 6
Charles R Laing 2
Maggie and Helen Riddock both 21 servants.
All the family were born in Kilsyth.

allan1047 · Posted: Sun Sep 29, 2013 2:20 pm Post subject: John Lang

John Lang was born in Kilsyth and lived there.
He died on the 3rd May 1917 in France and Flanders.
He enlisted in Kilsyth in the Kings Own Scottish Borderers, 6th Battalion as a private.
His service number was 14531.

CWGC: Arras Memorial Faubourg-D’Amiens Cemetery, Arras, France.

1901 Census: John and Susan Lang were living at Barrwood, Kilsyth and their son, John was 4 years old.