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Gretna Old Parish Church WW2 Roll of Honour

 
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PostPosted: Wed May 09, 2007 7:24 pm    Post subject: Gretna Old Parish Church WW2 Roll of Honour Reply with quote

UKNIWM Ref: 44149

OS Map Ref: NY 319 680

Odd that this one is listed on UKNIWM whereas the WW1 Roll of Honour which is beside it, is not. Probably because there is a WW1 bronze plaque but no other WW2 memorial.





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PostPosted: Mon Jan 09, 2017 4:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

All of the fatalities marked on the roll are also named on the Gretna Parish War Memorial except for:
BRYSON, J. GILMOUR of Rigg Cottage and IRVING, OLIVER of Rigg Station, who do not seem to be named on any local memorial.

James Gilmour Bryson – age 23 – Flying Officer/Pilot (134999) 550 Squadron, Bomber Command, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.
James was educated at Mount Pleasant School, Rigg, at Annan Academy, at Wallace Hall Academy in Dumfriesshire and at the Edinburgh Agricultural College. He joined the RAF in 1940 and was commissioned from Sergeant (1365290) in October 1942. He was promoted to F/O in April 1943. His Lancaster bomber took off from RAF Grimsby at Waltham in Lincolnshire for a raid on Berlin but crashed near Hoya. James was buried in Hassel near Bremmen but was re-interred in Hanover in January 1948.
Born 1920 in Gretna. Son of George and Margaret Jane (Gilmour) Bryson of Rigg Cottage, Rigg.
Husband of Susie R. (Edmunds) Bryson who he married in 1942 in Surrey.
Killed in Action on 2 January 1944 and buried in Hanover War Cemetery, Germany.
Named on a memorial plaque at Wallace Hall Academy.


Oliver Archibald Shankland C. Irving – age 30 – Gunner (1682960) 261 Battery, 94 Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery.
The Roll of Honour lists Oliver and Winifred Irving of Rigg Station and in 1911 at Rigg were Francis W Irving, age 32 born England, a railway signalman, his wife Nellie W Irving, age 33 born Gretna, and their adopted daughter Winnie, aged 3 born Glasgow.
Born c.1912 in Argyllshire. I cannot trace his birth but this may be because, like his sister, he was adopted.
Son of Francis and Ellen Weall (Bryson) Irving who had married in Gretna in 1904.
Husband of Irene (Richards) Irving, of Millom, Cumberland who he married in 1938 in Millom, Bootle, Cumberland.
Missing in Action on 14 September 1942 and named on the Alamein Memorial, Egypt.
94 Regiment was sent to Egypt in June 1941. It was sent to the desert and served in the rear areas of the front from November 1941 until January 1943.
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 09, 2017 7:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

My thanks to Mark (dhubthaigh) who has found the birth details for Oliver Irving.

Oliver Archibald Shankland COOK born 25 June 1912 in Dunoon, Argyll.
Although both parents are named the birth is classified as illegitimate, so adoption is possible.
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