The Scottish Military Research Group - Commemorations Project

jrah60 · Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2012 2:27 pm Post subject: Clydeport

Clydeport, 16 Robertson Street, Glasgow G2 8DS

OS Grid Ref: NS 586649

Clyde Navigation Trust
The most spectacular historical landmark along the Broomielaw is the domed Clyde Navigation Trust Building (now The Clydeport Building). The Trust, established by Act of Parliament in 1858, brought city fathers, shipbuilders, merchants and industrialists together to develop and manage the river and its trade. The Trust Building was designed by Glasgow architect J. J. Burnet (1882-86, extended in 1905) in an Italianate Baroque style.
As early as 1759 an Act of Parliament gave Glasgow town councillors the powers ‘to cleanse, scour, straighten and improve’ the Clyde between Glasgow Bridge and the Dumbuck Ford near Dumbarton. The Clyde Navigation Trust was formed in 1858, in succession to the River Improvement Trust, in order to run the increasingly complex business of the Clyde.
Developing the Clyde’s navigation and trade required investment as well as decisions about where to invest and the collection of fees and tolls. The Trust widened membership, previously the exclusive preserve of Glasgow town councillors, to include river users - manufacturers and ship-owners, representatives of the Merchants’ House and Trades Hall. For over 100 years it was the driving force in developing new docks and quays, keeping the dockside machinery up to date and carrying out never ending maintenance on the river.
Since 1992 Clydeport plc. has been responsible for the port facilities on the river, in the firth of Clyde and the deep water harbours used by bulk carriers at Hunterston and Ardrossan on the Ayrshire coast.
www.clydeport.co.uk

jrah60 · Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2012 2:29 pm Post subject: Clydeport

1914 – 1918

Thomas Abraham
James Addie
William Anderson
Thomas W. Anthony
Thomas Barbour
George Barclay
Murdo J. Bethune
Thomas Boyle
Peter Brown
William Calder
Lewis Cameron
Ralph Cameron
Roderick T. Cameron
John Campbell
Kenneth Campbell
George W. Davis
Patrick Devine
Samuel Docherty
Joseph Docherty
Duncan Douglas
Michael Dyer
George Eadie
Alexander Fielding
Malcolm Finlayson
Robert Fleming
William Gallagher
Henry McA. Gordon
James Graham
Frederick C. Green
Robert Hannah
James Harkins
Francis J. Henretty
Edward Hickey
Robert Horn
Alexander Jamieson
James Johnston
William Johnstone
Hugh Kay
William S. Keddie
William Kelly
William Kerr
James Lindsay
Andrew Logan
John S. Logan
Patrick Lynagh
James Manson
John Manson
James Mechie
George Mellis
Allan J. Morrison
Angus McAulay
James McAulay
Archibald McArthur
Edward McCarten

jrah60 · Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2012 2:32 pm Post subject: Clydeport

William McCrae
John McGinley
John McIntosh
Charles McIntyre
James McIntyre
William McIntyre
John McKechnie
Robert McLaren
Patrick McLaughlin
Allan McLean
Murdo J. McLeod
Murdoch McLeod
Norman McLeod
Duncan McMillan
William G. McNab
Finlay McRitchie
Murdo McSwan
Ian A.B. McTavish
James McVary
Robert Newlands
Charles Nicol
Donald Nicolson
Norman Nicolson
Norman Nicolson
James O’Neil
Hugh O’Neil
Joseph Pollock
George Reid
John Robertson
Ralph Rodger
William Rodgers
John Sinclair
William Smith
James Stevenson
Duncan Stewart
Donald Sutherland
Alexander Tough
George Turnbull
Samuel Urie
Alexander Walker
Frank Walker
Hugh Weir
William Weir
Andrew West
James White
Hugh McD. Williamson
Robert Wilson
Robert Wilson
Robert G. Wilson
Charles Wood
Adam Y. Yule
Donald Yule
Harold T. Martin

THIS MEMORIAL IS ERECTED BY THE TRUSTEES OF THE CLYDE NAVIGATION IN GRATEFUL REMEMBRANCE OF THEIR EMPLOYEES WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE GREAT WAR.

jrah60 · Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2012 2:33 pm Post subject: Clydeport

AND 1939 – 1945 WAR

David McK. Forbes
John D. Forbes
Alexander Graham
Charles Kelly
Robert Maxwell
Munro McCannel
Robert H.M. MacFadzean
Alan H. Mackie
Kenneth McKinnon
Norman MacLeod
Duncan Niven
Edward Paterson
Thomas Peat
James Quinn
John Semple
Alexander Smith
Donald White

John

dhubthaigh · Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2012 3:19 pm Post subject:

BLAIRGOWRIE ADVERTISER: 07.08.1915
PERTH

Mr A. M. Mechie, 23 Muirhall Terrace, Perth, has received information that his son, James Mechie, died of enteric fever at the Dardanelles on 21st July. He was 23 years of age, and was a civil engineer on the staff of the Clyde Navigation Trust. Educated at Perth Academy, he became a student at St. Andrews University, and graduated B.Sc. in Engineering in 1912, gaining at the same time a three years’ scholarship awarded by the 1851 Exhibition Commissioners. At the time he left Glasgow he was secretary of the Institution of Civil Engineers. Last autumn he joined the engineering section of the Royal Naval Division.

Kenneth Morrison · Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 3:47 pm Post subject:

The first two WW2 names - co-incidence????????

FORBES, DAVID MAKAY
Rank:Bombardier
Service No:1448928
Date of Death:07/01/1942
Age:33
Regiment/Service:Royal Artillery
80 Anti-Tank Regt.
Panel ReferenceColumn 7.
MemorialSINGAPORE MEMORIAL
Additional Information:

FORBES, JOHN DONALD
Rank:Bombardier
Service No:1450672
Date of Death:07/01/1942
Age:31
Regiment/Service:Royal Artillery
80 Anti-Tank Regt.
Panel ReferenceColumn 7.
MemorialSINGAPORE MEMORIAL
Additional Information:
Husband of Mary McGregor Forbes, of Mosspark, Glasgow.
_________________
Ken

jrah60 · Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 9:21 pm Post subject: Clydeport

McCANNELL, MUNRO MURDOCH
Rank: Warrant Officer
Trade: Pilot
Service No: 1344274
Date of Death: 06/06/1944
Age: 22
Regiment/Service: Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, 233 Sqdn.
Grave Reference Coll. grave V. B. 1-22.
Cemetery RANVILLE WAR CEMETERY
Additional Information: Son of Archibald and Christina Margaret McCannell, of Glasgow. (His brother Duncan Malcolm also died in service).

MACFADZEAN, ROBERT HANDLEY MAXWELL
Rank: Sergeant
Trade: Pilot
Service No: 1349862
Date of Death: 27/03/1943
Age: 20
Regiment/Service: Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Grave Reference Grave 5.
Cemetery: KIRKNEWTON (ST. GREGORY) CHURCHYARD
Additional Information: Son of John Maxwell Macfadzean and Jessie Handley Macfadzean; husband of Rhoda Adele Brooks Macfadzean, of Montgomery, Alabama, U.S.A. Born in Glasgow (SNWM).

jrah60 · Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 9:23 pm Post subject: Clydeport

MACKIE, ALAN HENDRIE
Rank: Leading Airman
Service No: FAA/FX. 80073
Date of Death: 17/01/1941
Age: 25
Regiment/Service: Royal Navy, H.M.S. Goshawk
Panel Reference Bay 2, Panel 2.
Memorial LEE-ON-SOLENT MEMORIAL
Additional Information: Son of Allan E. L. and Elizabeth M. Mackie, of Glasgow. LL.B.

McKINNON, KENNETH
Rank: Seaman
Service No: P/5961D
Date of Death: 17/12/1940
Regiment/Service: Royal Naval Reserve, H.M.S. Acheron
Panel Reference Panel 44, Column 1.
Memorial PORTSMOUTH NAVAL MEMORIAL
Additional Information: Husband of M. McKinnon, of Stornoway, Isle of Lewis.

jrah60 · Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 9:24 pm Post subject: Clydeport

NIVEN, DUNCAN
Rank: Storekeeper
Date of Death: 08/09/1944
Age: 41
Regiment/Service: Merchant Navy, S.S. Empire Heritage (Cardiff)
Panel Reference Panel 42.
Memorial TOWER HILL MEMORIAL

PEAT, THOMAS DUNLOP
Rank: Sergeant
Trade: Air Gnr.
Service No: 1559144
Date of Death: 01/05/1943
Age: 21
Regiment/Service: Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, 467 (R.A.A.F.) Sqdn
Grave Reference British Plot 2. Joint grave 33.
Cemetery: HARDERWIJK GENERAL CEMETERY
Additional Information: Son of John Peat, and of Catherine Peat, of Paisley, Renfrewshire.