The Scottish Military Research Group - Commemorations Project

anne park · Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2011 3:05 pm Post subject: Stephen McGinlay 15th HLI

Name: Stephen Mcginlay
Birth Place: Garelochhead, Dumbartonshire
Residence: Garelochhead
Death Date: 16 Nov 1916
Death Location: France & Flanders
Enlistment Location: Glasgow
Rank: Private
Regiment: Highland Light Infantry
Battalion: 15th (Service) Battalion (1st Glasgow)
Number: 13412
Type of Casualty: Killed in action
Theatre of War: Western European Theatre
I have checked the 1891 and 1901 Census but has anyone out there got more info on the man...his name is on the 15th HLI memorial.

kinnethmont · Joined: 19 Dec 2006 Posts: 1649 Location: Aberdeenshire

He landed in France on 23rd Nov 1915 and fell in action during the final operations of the Battles of the Somme and is commemorated on the Thieipval Memorial to the Missing.

Name: McGINLAY, STEPHEN
Initials: S
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Highland Light Infantry
Unit Text: 15th Bn.
Date of Death: 16/11/1916
Service No: 13412
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Pier and Face 15 C.
Memorial: THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
_________________
Jim

If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

www.kinnethmont.co.uk

ADP · Joined: 13 Jun 2008 Posts: 467 Location: Edinburgh

He is aged 20, a railway surfaceman with the NBR, in Garelochhead, on the 1911 census, with his older brother and widowed mother. There is an 1890 birth certificate for him.

ADP

anne park · Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2011 4:41 pm Post subject: Thanks for all the help

Thanks for the info it will be a help with research.