The Scottish Military Research Group - Commemorations Project

Roxy · Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2008 7:12 pm Post subject:

I should haver made myself clearer:

There were 4 Mochrie brothers who paid the ultimate sacrifice during the Great War; 3 were killed at Loos in 1915 and the fourth at Arras in 1917: another Mochrie died on 25 Sep 1915 and is commemorated on the Menin Gate (rather than the Loos Memorial)

James, Matthew, Robert and Andrew were brothers - they apparently had another brother and sister who served and survived. There is no indication on CWGC that Thomas Mochrie was a relation.

Roxy Wink

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Remembering my ggf, Pte Thomas Roberts, 10 SR, killed 25 Sep 15 at Loos.
Also remembering Flt Lt Al Squires and CXX/3 killed 2 Sep 06 in Afghanistan.

KevinStoke · . Joined: 09 Jan 2007 Posts: 175

I wonder who the Kevin O'Neill is that is mentioned in the articles. Very Happy

DerekR · Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2008 7:21 pm Post subject:

I don't know who he is as the article states: "the tragic story of the Mochrie brothers has now been revealed by a local historian."

Is Stoke local? Wink

Well done anyway Cutty Sark, you did the memory of the Mochrie boys proud.
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Time but th' impression stronger makes, As streams their channels deeper wear.

KevinStoke · . Joined: 09 Jan 2007 Posts: 175

One of the reports in one of the papers does say that I am an exiled Scot living in Sassanachshire.

Thanks for the kind comments on doing the boys proud. There is a heck of a lot more to tell on them, all in due course.

Kevin

Roxy · Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 9:21 pm Post subject:

I have just read a thread posted on GWF regarding the Mochries. One of the contributors is a relative! Apparently 35 Mochries served; 9 paid the ultimate price.

See this link.

Roxy
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Remembering my ggf, Pte Thomas Roberts, 10 SR, killed 25 Sep 15 at Loos.
Also remembering Flt Lt Al Squires and CXX/3 killed 2 Sep 06 in Afghanistan.

David McNay · Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2009 7:02 pm Post subject:

Some additional photos by Emma Mykytyn, which include close-up shots of the name panels which we didn't have yet.

DSCF0293 by Scottish Military Research Group, on Flickr

DSCF0294 by Scottish Military Research Group, on Flickr

DSCF0297 by Scottish Military Research Group, on Flickr

DSCF0295 by Scottish Military Research Group, on Flickr

DSCF0296 by Scottish Military Research Group, on Flickr

DelBoy · Posted: Sun Aug 28, 2011 10:02 am Post subject: William Galt

milmor_1 · Joined: 03 Jun 2009 Posts: 118 Location: Ireland

The following soldier is NOT listed on this memorial, but as he has Kibbirnie connections I have posted him here for reference.

GILLEN, James (John) Private 6480 1st Bn Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
Born: Kilbirney, Lanarkshire *Resided: Glenbuck, Co Antrim Enlisted: Belfast.
Age: 33 Date of Death: 31/07/1915 Cause: Killed in action.
Family Notes: Nephew of, Miss Mary Gillen, of Glenbuck, Dunloy, Co. Antrim.
Religion: Roman Catholic.

Intimation has been received by his friends in the Dunloy District that Private John Gillen has been killed in action at the Dardanelles. Private Gillen was an Army Reserve man, and rejoined at the start of the war, and being wounded three months afterwards. He recovered however and went back to the firing line, and was killed in action on the Gallipoli Peninsula. Before the war he acted as an instructor in the Dunloy Branch of the National Volunteers.
The Belfast Evening Telegraph, 27 August 1915.

Other notes: Private Gillen’s Medal Index Card shows him as entering the French Theatre of Operations on 29/8/1914.
Census Notes: The 1911 Census shows a “John” Gillen (aged 31, born in Scotland) as a resident in the home of his aunt, Mary Gillen in Glenbuck, Co Antrim.
Special Notes: The newspaper item names Private Gillen as “John”, as does the 1911 Census; a search of the IWM records, Soldiers Died (Part 32) and the CWGC shows no “John Gillen” only “James Gillen,” it would appear that “John” is the name he went by.
Grave/Memorial: Addenda panel Helles Memorial.
Other memorials: Private Gillen is named in the Scottish Roll of Honour in the Scottish National War Memorial, Edinburgh Castle, Edinburgh.
IWM Record Page No: Volume III, Page 290.

DelBoy · Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2012 4:00 am Post subject:

Unveiled on Saturday October 7th 1922.
Memorial Arch designed by John Houston A.R.I.B.A. of Kilbirnie & Glasgow.

Derek.

DelBoy · Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2012 2:34 pm Post subject: Pte. Andrew Bryce

WW1
Bryce, Andrew. R.S.F.

(Glasgow Herald 19th March 1915)
"Private James Quigley of the 2nd Royal Scots Fusiliers, writing to his brother in Kilbirnie on the 14th inst. from Hornbrook Hospital, Chislehurst, Kent, says "I am in good health but have been wounded in the right hip - a souvenir from the Germans" Private Quigley adds "There was a chap called Andrew Bryce in the same company as me in France who came from Glengarnock. He was killed on Thursday, just before I was hit. I was standing beside him, when he was shot right through the heart.""

CWGC
BRYCE, ANDREW
Rank: Private
Service No: 12747
Date of Death: 11/03/1915
Regiment/Service: Royal Scots Fusiliers 2nd Bn.
Panel Reference: Panel 12 and 13.
Memorial: LE TOURET MEMORIAL

SNWM
Surname: BRYCE
Firstname: Andrew
Service Number: 12747
Date Death: 11/03/1915
Place of birth: Saltcoats
Other: 2nd Bn.
SNWM roll: THE ROYAL SCOTS FUSILIERS
Rank: Pte

DelBoy · Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2012 10:11 am Post subject: Pte. William McEwan

WW1
McEwan, Wm. R.S.F.

(Glasgow Herald 24th March 1915)
"Word has been received from two Kilbirnie men in the fighting line that Private William McEwan, of the Royal Scots Fusiliers, had been killed at the battle of Neuve Chapelle. Private McEwan was a native of Kilbirnie, 35 years of age, single, a steelworker at Glengarnock, and joined Kitchener's army in August. He had been in France only five or six weeks."

CWGC
McEWAN, WILLIAM
Rank: Private
Service No: 12343
Date of Death: 13/03/1915
Age: 35
Regiment/Service: Royal Scots Fusiliers 2nd Bn.
Panel Reference: Panel 12 and 13.
Memorial: LE TOURET MEMORIAL
Additional Information: Son of Mr. and Mrs. Michael McEwan, of Kilbirnie, Ayrshire.

SNWM
Surname: McEWAN
Firstname: William
Service Number: 12343
Date Death: 13/03/1915
Place of birth: Kilbirnie Ayrshire
Other: 2nd Bn.
SNWM roll: THE ROYAL SCOTS FUSILIERS
Rank: Pte

DelBoy · Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2012 4:50 am Post subject: Pte. John Logan

WW1
Logan, John. R.S.F.

(Glasgow Herald 9th April 1915)
"Private John Logan, Kilbirnie, of the Royal Scots Fusiliers, also enlisted in the New Army and had not been long at the front. He was wounded seriously, and died in hospital. He was a young married man, and a son of Mr Daniel Logan, fireman, Kilbirnie."

CWGC
LOGAN, J
Rank: Private
Service No: 12350
Date of Death: 03/04/1915
Regiment/Service: Royal Scots Fusiliers 1st Bn.
Grave Reference: Sp. Mem. C. 10.
Cemetery: HEDGE ROW TRENCH CEMETERY

SNWM
Surname: LOGAN
Firstname: John
Service Number: 12350
Date Death: 03/04/1915
Place of birth: Glasgow
Other: 1st Bn.
SNWM roll: THE ROYAL SCOTS FUSILIERS
Rank: Pte
Theatre of death: F.& F.

DelBoy · Posted: Sun Jun 30, 2013 7:03 pm Post subject: Pte. Thomas McCartney

WW1
McCartney, Thomas A.&.S.H.

(Glasgow Herald 14th May 1915)
"Corporal Thomas McCartney, of the 1st A. and S.H. was killed in action Sunday May 2. Corporal McCartney was 24 years of age, and had been six years in the Army, five of which he served in India. He was drafted home in December, and pais a visit to his relatives in Kilbirnie before being sent to the front."

CWGC
McCARTNEY, THOMAS
Rank: Private
Service No: 405
Date of Death: 02/05/1915
Regiment/Service: Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders 1st Bn.
Panel Reference: Panel 42 and 44.
Memorial: YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL

SNWM
Surname: McCARTNEY
Firstname: Thomas
Service Number: 405
Date Death: 02/05/1915
Place of birth: Glasgow
Other: 1st Bn.
SNWM roll: THE ARGYLL AND SUTHERLAND HIGHLANDERS
Rank: Pte
Theatre of death: F.& F.

DelBoy · Posted: Tue Jul 09, 2013 2:11 am Post subject: L.Cpl. James Brannan

DelBoy · Posted: Thu Jul 18, 2013 12:21 am Post subject: Sgt. James Neil Mc/MacFarlane

WW1
MacFarlane, Jas. M. (N?) R.H.

Looks like the memorial has the middle initial wrong.

MacFARLANE, JAMES NEIL
Rank: Serjeant
Service No: 7314
Date of Death: 12/10/1917
Age: 36
Regiment/Service: Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) 8th Bn.
Panel Reference: Panel 94 to 96.
Memorial: TYNE COT MEMORIAL
Additional Information: Son of Duncan and Margaret MacFarlane, of 10, Salisbury St., Kirkcaldy; husband of Isabella Smeaton MacFarlane, of Post Office, Kilbirnie, Ayrshire. Also served in the South African campaign and in India.

SNWM
Surname: MacFARLANE
Firstname: James
Service Number: 7314
Date Death: 12/10/1917
Place of birth: Renfrew
Other: 8th Bn.
SNWM roll: THE BLACK WATCH (ROYAL HIGHLANDERS)
Rank: A/Sgt
Theatre of death: F.& F.