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The Western Club, WW1

 
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jrah60
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PostPosted: Tue May 04, 2010 7:31 pm    Post subject: The Western Club, WW1 Reply with quote

The Western Club, 32 Royal Exchange Square, Glasgow G1 3AB

UKNIWM: Not Listed
OS Grid Ref: NS 591653



Founded in 1825, the Club has maintained the first class standards of service, comfort and individual charm which have drawn loyal membership from businessmen and women throughout the years.
From its founding in 1825, the Club joined with the Junior Club (founded in 1868), the New Club (founded in 1869) and the ladies Kelvin Club (founded in 1897). In more recent times the Club has also become the adopted home of former members of the R.N.V.R. Club (Scotland).
History also records that the purpose of the Club was to furnish its members with cheap and well cooked dinners and "wine free of death in the bottle".
www.westernclub.co.uk

The club has a WW1 and a WW2 memorial both located in the stairway on the first and second landings.



The WW1 memorial is inscribed as follows:

PRO PATRIA

W.H. Anderson VC
Douglas A. Bannatyne
George V.M. Boyd
Kenneth A. Brown
George G. Chrystal
Ian C. Chrystal
W. Campbell Church
W.F. McDonald MC
C.C. Fleming DSO
Allan Gilmour
Donald N. Graham
William L.C. Graham
W.H.C. Kidston
Andrew B. King
C. Dunn MacIndoe
Anthony S. Murray
George Smith
Patrick Spens
Charles G. Tennant
W.D. Mann Thomson
J.R. Wardle

MCMXIV – MCMXVIII
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Adam Brown
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PostPosted: Tue May 04, 2010 8:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

John

Many thanks for posting this memorial. I was just looking into Allan Gilmour earlier this evening. He was the brother-in-law of William Anderson VC also listed.

Thanks

Adam
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 17, 2011 8:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

From The Scotsman December 24th 1917. Page 3

Captain Allan Gilmour, Yeomanry (died of wounds) was the only son of Mr and Mrs William Ewing Gilmour of Woodbank, Alexandria. He was a native of the Vale of Leven, and before the war he was engaed in the United Turkey Red Company's business at the Alexandria Works. He was one of the leading officials of the Vale of Leven Conservative Club, and a member of the Bonhill School Board and Convener of the Building Committee of that body. he was Vice-Commodore of the Loch Lomond Regatta Club and president of the Loch Lomond Motor Boat Club. He was educated at the Edinburgh Academy, and Oxford University. A rugby enthusiast, he played for Oxford University and Edinburgh Academy, while he also represented Edinburgh in representative games.
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PostPosted: Fri Dec 13, 2019 9:46 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Name: CHRYSTAL, IAN CAMPBEL
Initials: IC
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Second Lieutenant
Regiment/Service: Seaforth Highlanders, 3rd Bn attd 9th Bn
Date of Death: 1/5/1917
Age: 29
Additional Information: Son of Marie L. Chrystal, of Auchendennan, Arden, Dumbartonshire, and thelate W. J. Chrystal.
Grave Reference: I A 4
Cemetery: Point-Du-Jour Military Cemetery, Athies.

Also named on Rutherglen, Bonhill (Alexandria & Balloch), and Alexandria Church memorials.
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Name: COLRAIN, B
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Service Number: 17759
Regiment/Service: Royal Irish Fusiliers, 1st Bn
Date of Death: 7/7/1915
Grave Reference: I A 38
Cemetery: Bard Cottage Cemetery.
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PostPosted: Fri Dec 20, 2019 12:06 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

WMR 87346 and 87347
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PostPosted: Wed Dec 16, 2020 10:51 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Name: SPENS, WALTER THOMAS PATRICK
Initials: WTP
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Lieutenant
Regiment/Service: Royal Scots, 9th Bn
Date of Death: 18/2/1917
Age: 36
Additional Information: Son of Sheriff Walter and Helen Spens; husband of Mabel Dennison Watson Spens, of Strathaden, Troon, Ayrshire. Born at Glasgow.
Grave Reference: V A 29
Cemetery: Aubigny Communal Cemetery Extension.

Also named on Glasgow Academy and St Mary's Episcopal Cathedral (Glasgow) War Memorials and in the University of Glasgow Memorial Chapel. A short biographical note about LT Spens can be seen on the University's Roll of Honour: https://universitystory.gla.ac.uk/ww1-biography/?id=2593
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