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dhubthaigh
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 Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2007 5:48 pm Post subject: REGINALD G. GORDON |
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This plaque is inside Blair Atholl Church;
Name: GORDON
Initials: R G
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Major
Regiment/Service: Royal Garrison Artillery
Unit Text: Lowland Heavy Bty., attd. 12th Heavy Bty
Age: 39
Date of Death: 26/03/1918
Awards: D S O
Additional information: Son of Dandy Stewart Ramsay Gordon and Jane Clegg Gordon, husband of Barbara M. Gordon, of Lettoch, St. Andrews, Fife. Born at Valparaiso.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: V. C. 6.
Cemetery: EUSTON ROAD CEMETERY, COLINCAMPS |
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dhubthaigh
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| Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2007 5:50 pm Post subject: |
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| It would appear that Reginald Gordon was born in Chile! |
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Kenneth Morrison
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from http://www.oocities.org/girnocgordons/ArdmeanachByBulloch.html
Aberdeen Journal 'Notes & Queries'
No 98, 2nd March 1910
David Stewart Ramsay Gordon, born at Woodside 25th August 1845. He married at the Inglesia Espiritu Santa, Valparaiso, Chili, 7th November 1877, Jane Clegg, daughter of Robert Clegg, of H.M. Exchequer, and died at Edinburgh on the 12th June 1905. He was very keenly interested in the history of his Gordon ancestors, and spent a great deal of time transcribing parish registers in search of them. He spent many summers at Ballater, and visited his Kinsman, Mr Alexander Forbes in Aberdeen, a good deal. He was fond of wearing a Gordon tartan kilt. He left an only son.
Reginald Clegg Gordon, born 26th September 1878 at Calle Monte Allegre, Chili; baptised 25th December 1878 at St Pauls Church Valparaiso; godfathers, Andrew Henderson and John W. Hardy, there. MB.CM., Edinburgh University in 1903. He married on the 10th June 1909, Barbara Mackenzie Morrison and resides at Lettach, Killiecrankie.
Listed on the Tenandry Church Memorial near Killiecrankie.
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DelBoy
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So is the middle initial on the memorial wrong, Glegg/Clegg?
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Adam Brown
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| Posted: Fri May 17, 2013 8:28 am Post subject: |
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| DelBoy wrote: | So is the middle initial on the memorial wrong, Glegg/Clegg?
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Possibly wrong on the memorial and on CWGC too? Strange that both are making the same mistake. CWGC could be put down to a scanning error but if the memorial is also using G instead of C maybe that is what the IWGC recorded him as?
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Kenneth Morrison
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I hadn't noticed the Clegg/Glegg issue.
He's recorded as Reginald Glegg Gordon on scotlandspeople marriage index for 1909 - marrying Barbara "somebody" (not Morrison)
So it looks like the article is "iffy"
From http://www.gleig.ca/docs/Gleggs_from_Todstack_Farm_Stonehaven.pdf
He married Barbara MacKenzie MASSON, 10 Jun 1909 in High Church, Inverness, born 2 Apr 1874 in Kindrummond, Dores, Invernessshire, (daughter of John MASSON and Anne ROSE) died 6 Apr 1950 in St Andrews, buried in Top of family stone, St A, occupation Nurse.
So article is "iffy" - I should have guessed by the spelling of Chili. 
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Kenneth Morrison
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Edinburgh University Roll of the Fallen
GORDON, REGINALD GLEGG (b. 1878).
Edinburgh Academy. Student of Medicine, 1897-1903; M.B., Ch.B. 1903.
Univ. Battery, E.C.A.V., 1897 to 1903 ; 2nd Lieut. March 1903 ; Lieut. Feb. 1904; O.T.C. Artillery, Captain July 1908; O.C. till Oct. 1909. 6th Royal Highlanders (Black Watch), Captain 1913. R.G.A., Lowland Heavy Battery, Aug. 1914; Major March 1915. France 1916. Dispatches Oct. 1917. D.S.O. Jan. 1918. Killed in action in France on 25th March 1918.
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| Posted: Sun May 19, 2013 5:43 am Post subject: On entry 4082 on my database I have |
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4082 Gordon Reginald Glegg Major DSO Royal Garrison Artillery attd 12th H B b Valparaiso, Chile 26/09/1878 Age 39 Killed in Action F & F 25/03/18 Son of David Stewart Ramsay Gordon & Jane Glegg Gordon. 1891 Census: 118 Thirlestand Rd; Edinburgh. 1901 Census: 13 St Bernards Crescent, Edinburgh: Occ: Medical Student. Roll of Honour: Vol IV Page 66: Educated Edinburgh Academy & University. Glenmuick MI Entry 75. Husband of Barbara MacKenzie Masson Gordon, Lettoch St; St Andrews, Fife. m 10 Jun 1909 – Inverness-Shire. Probate Date: 9 Jul 1918 of Kinaldie. Euston Road Cemetery, Colincamps Fr 0156 Plot V Row C Grave 6 Tenandry Memorial
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