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Kenneth Morrison
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Captain James Hamilton, Cameronians.
Possible scanning error by CWGC.
All records (including CWGC Grave Registration) show his death as 3rd not 1st of January.
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| BJL wrote: | | No Interest in Memorial for Uddingston - On Monday night a public meeting was held in the Grammar School, Uddingston, to consider whether a memorial to those who fell in the Great War should not be erected even yet. Sir Thomas Wilson presided, and expressed the opinion that something should yet be done. The attendance was extremely poor, and it was decided to adjourn without coming to any decision. [Motherwell Times 25 January 1924] |
Strange as the cricket club erected one soon after the war finished
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| Posted: Tue May 12, 2020 4:51 pm Post subject: Lightfoot |
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Don’t if he is listed on the Uddingston one but I know he is on the cricket one.
I have a L J Lightfoot who I can’t find anything about. I think based on cricket reports the L may have stood for Lieutenant and he may have died in 1915 but can’t pin him down
Any help or guidance would be appreciated
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| Posted: Tue May 12, 2020 4:53 pm Post subject: Names |
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The names on the memorial are held in Hamilton at the council offices. Little sign stats so near the memorial
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Kenneth Morrison
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A snippet!
Scottish Referee 6 July 1914 p.1
There is a strong probability that Lieut. L. J. Lightfoot will be lost to Uddingston after this season. The Army officer, •who is an old Bedford Grammar School and Sandhurst pupil, has applied to the military authorities for a transfer, and there is a big chance of his petition being granted.
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| Kenneth Morrison wrote: | A snippet!
Scottish Referee 6 July 1914 p.1
There is a strong probability that Lieut. L. J. Lightfoot will be lost to Uddingston after this season. The Army officer, •who is an old Bedford Grammar School and Sandhurst pupil, has applied to the military authorities for a transfer, and there is a big chance of his petition being granted. |
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There is an article from the newspaper archive but I don’t have access if anyone can help. Edinburgh evening news 23 October 1915. This might be him.
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Kenneth Morrison
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| Posted: Wed May 13, 2020 6:13 pm Post subject: Re: Evening news |
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| SouthsideChaz wrote: | | There is an article from the newspaper archive but I don’t have access if anyone can help. Edinburgh evening news 23 October 1915. This might be him. |
It doesn't help much Chaz.
Thirty-three members of Uddingston Cricket Club are in the forces. One (Sergeant James Cochran) is a prisoner of war, another (Sergeant. Dan Smith) has been wounded, and three (Captain Gandy, Lieutenant Lightfoot, and Private Hugh Scott) have been killed in action.
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GANDY, WILLIAM HENRY
Died 12/07/1915
Aged 37
7th Bn
Highland Light Infantry
Mentioned in Despatches
Son of Jessie M. Gandy, of "Holmview," Brooklands Avenue, Uddingston, Lanarkshire.
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SouthsideChaz
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| Posted: Wed May 13, 2020 6:15 pm Post subject: Cheers |
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Thanks, it looks like Lightfoot did not die.
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Kenneth Morrison
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Chaz - there is a Medal Card for a Lieutenant L J Lightfoot of the Army Pay Department who went on to become a Captaln before he transferred to the RAF as a Flight Lieutenant and became a Wing Commander.
Possibly Leslie J Lightfoot??????
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SouthsideChaz
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| Posted: Wed May 13, 2020 6:27 pm Post subject: Cheers |
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I found some info as well like that. He was listed as dead at the cricket club.
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Kenneth Morrison
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However on the 1901 census in Bedford (remember the Bedford Grammar School ref) there was a Leslie Jabez Lightfoot, aged 11, born in India.
He was a boarder.
Later Leslie Jabez Lightfoot was a Lt in the Middlesex Regt. He died in West Sussex in 1975.
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| Posted: Wed May 13, 2020 6:47 pm Post subject: Thanks |
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Cheers for your help. I am convinced that his death was wrongly reported which I think the cricket club were not informed.
Even though I have not seen it, I think the club have a memorial with his name on it.
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| Posted: Wed May 13, 2020 7:56 pm Post subject: Cricket |
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Got two names i am having trouble with from Uddingston cricket.
Thomas Nelson i think died 1917
Alexander H Young
Alexander is listed in the on the war memorial at the Uddingston old parish church which is next to the ground and there is a Thomas Frame Neilson not Nelson who went to the same church
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Kenneth Morrison
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Hamilton Advertiser 9/6/1917.
UDDINGSTON AND THE WAR.
Mrs John Neiison, Castle Place, Old Glasgow Road, Uddingston, has received official notice from the Record Office. Hamilton, that her son, Pte. Thomas F. Neilson, Scottish Rifles, was killed in action on 20th May. Deceased, who was 21 years of age, was a member of the Territorials, and was called up at the outbreak of war, and went to France with the first contingent on 19th March. 1915. He was a member of Uddingston 2nd eleven cricket, and previous to enlisting was employed in the office of Messrs A. G. Moore & Co. at Blantvreferme Coliery. He was an enthusiastic member of Uddingston Boys’ Brigade, and acted corporal and drummer during its existence; and an active worker in the associations connected with Chalmers United Free Church.
Private 1950 & 240269 Died 20 May 1917
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