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Chryston War Memorial, Muirhead, North Lanarkshire

 
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David McNay
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PostPosted: Fri Dec 29, 2006 10:50 pm    Post subject: Chryston War Memorial, Muirhead, North Lanarkshire Reply with quote

Located in the village of Muirhead.

Map Reference: NS 686 695

DSCN9113 by Scottish Military Research Group, on Flickr

DSCN9114 by Scottish Military Research Group, on Flickr


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PostPosted: Fri Dec 29, 2006 10:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

First World War panel:

DSCN9115 by Scottish Military Research Group, on Flickr

Second World War panel:

DSCN9116 by Scottish Military Research Group, on Flickr


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PostPosted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 10:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Name: MARTIN, WILLIAM RAMSEY
Initials: W R
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Gunner
Regiment/Service: Royal Artillery
Unit Text: 450 Bty., 57 Searchlight Regt.
Age: 25
Date of Death: 12/02/1942
Service No: 1439815
Additional information: Son of John and Mary Martin, of Muirhead, Lanarkshire.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Sec. A. Grave 7884.
Cemetery: GLASGOW (RIDDRIE PARK) CEMETERY

A link will be added to Riddrie Park Cemetery on the Scottish War Graves Forum shortly.
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 29, 2010 6:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

DONNELLY, Michael Private 14763 5th Bn Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
Born: Cadder, Lanarkshire Enlisted: Chryston, Lanarkshire.
Date of Death: 15/08/1915 Cause: Killed in action.
Grave/Memorial: Panel 97 to 101. Helles Memorial.
Irish War Memorial Records: Volume II, Page 359.
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 27, 2010 2:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

COLE, Terence Private 11684 6th Bn Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
Born: Cadder, Lanark Resided: Glasgow Enlisted: Bedley Chryston, Lanarkshire.
Date of Death: 06/09/1915 Cause: Died of wounds at sea (Sustained Gallipoli).
Special Notes: Private Cole is listed on the IWM records and Soldiers Died (Part 32) as Died of wounds at sea.”
Grave/Memorial: Panel 97 to 101. Helles Memorial.
Irish War Memorial Records Page No: Volume II, Page 56.
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 11, 2012 12:58 am    Post subject: John Wilkieson Reply with quote

CWGC
Name: WILKIESON, JOHN
Initials: J
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Seaforth Highlanders
Unit Text: 2nd Bn.
Age: 23
Date of Death: 04/10/1917
Service No: S/6115
Additional information: Son of John Wilkieson, of North Holmes Lodge, Chryston, Glasgow. Enlisted 1914. Previously wounded.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 132 to 135 and 162A.
Memomial: TYNE COT MEMORIAL
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'Lest We Forget'
Remembering my grandfather Pte 37091 Robert Lang 14th Bn HLI, killed in action 24 Apr 1917 at Gouzeaucourt, France.
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 11, 2012 4:03 pm    Post subject: John Wilkieson Reply with quote

SNWM Edinburgh Castle

Details:
Surname: WILKIESON
First Name: John
Service Number: S/6115
Date of Death: 04/10/1917
Decoration:
Place of Birth: Cadder Lanarkshire
Other: 2nd Bn.
SNWM Roll: THE SEAFORTH HIGHLANDERS
Rank: Pte
Theatre of Death:
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PostPosted: Wed May 23, 2012 2:51 am    Post subject: Memorial Transcription Reply with quote

IN LOVING MEMORY
OF THE FOLLOWING MEN OF THIS PLACE
WHO MADE THE SUPREME SACRIFICE
IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1918

John Alexander
James Allan
Peter Auchinleck
Samuel Beattie
Thomas Bonner
John Boyd
Joseph Brannan
James Brown
John Burns
Joseph Cahill
John Callaghan
Duncan Cameron
Thomas Campbell
James Chapman
Samuel Cochrane
Thomas Cochrane
Terence Cole
John McLean Cranston
Henry Days
Thomas Dickson
Ephraim Dodds Junr.
William Dodds
Michael Donnelly
James Duff
James Flett
James Foote
John James Foster
William Forgie
James Goddard
William Gordon
James Graham
Alexander Hastie
James Henderson
John Henderson
Joseph Hunter
William Jack
John Jolly
Michael Kelly
Robert Logie
Thomas Marshall
John Mason
John Maxwell
Thomas Middleton
William Middleton
John Monaghan
James Morrison
William J. Murray
Hugh McAdam
Hugh McCabe
Duncan McCansh
James McLuskey
John McLuskey
James McGarvie
John McGrath
John McKenna
Richard McManus
John W.E. McNeill
Charles New
Patrick O'Byrne
John Pirie
Francis Printer
Patrick Quinn
Cornelius Quinn
Patrick Reilly
Andrew Robertson
Charles Robertson
David Fraser Robertson
John Robertson
William Russell
Charles Scott
David Scott
James Shaw
James Sinclair
John Smith
William Sommerville
William Sommerville
John Stirling
Joseph Thomson
George Walkinshaw
James Walkinshaw
William John Ward
John Wilkieson
Alexander Wilson
William Wilson
William Wright

IN EVERLASTING REMEMBRANCE OF
THE MEN OF CHRYSTON AND DISTRICT
WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE
SECOND WORLD-WAR 1939-1945

Jas. Brackenridge
William Brown
Denis Burke
Thomas Burke
James F. Gordon
Victor Grant
Moffat M. Irvine
Robert McN. Jack
Henry King
Jos. McCluskey
John B. McDonald
John McLaren
James McMillan
James Marshall
William R. Martin
John Montgomery
Thomas Nicoll
Alex. G. Pender
Mich. Percival
Jack M. Pickering
John Reid
Bernard Scott
Alexander Stokes


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PostPosted: Fri May 25, 2012 3:20 pm    Post subject: Pte. John Boyd Reply with quote

WW1
John Boyd

(Glasgow Herald 24th Feb 1915)
"Mrs Boyd, of 19 Bridgend, Chryston, has received official word that her son, Private John Boyd (6707), of the 1st Scots Guards, has been missing since November 11. He was a reservist, and when war broke out was called up and rejoined his old regiment, being sent to France in early August. Previous to enlisting he was employed as a miner in Auchengeich Colliery, Chryston."

CWGC
BOYD, JOHN
Rank: Private
Service No: 6707
Date of Death: 29/10/1914
Regiment/Service: Scots Guards 1st Bn.
Panel Reference: Panel 11.
Memorial: YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL

SNWM
Surname: BOYD
Firstname: John
Service Number: 6707
Date Death: 29/10/1914
Place of birth: Glasgow
SNWM roll: SCOTS GUARDS
Rank: Gdsn


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PostPosted: Fri May 24, 2013 2:55 am    Post subject: L.Sgt. Samuel Beattie Reply with quote

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L.Sgt. Samuel Beattie

(Glasgow Herald 4th October 1915)
"Killed in action in France, on the 25th September, 1915. Samuel Beattie, lance-sergeant, aged 22 years, eldest and dearly beloved son of Margaret and Samuel Beattie, Mackay Place, Moodiesburn, Chryston."

CWGC
BEATTIE, S
Rank: Lance Serjeant
Service No: 3358
Date of Death: 25/09/1915
Regiment/Service: Highland Light Infantry 9th (Glasgow Hds.) Bn.
Grave Reference: III. G. 1.
Cemetery: GUARDS CEMETERY, WINDY CORNER, CUINCHY

SNWM
Surname: BEATTIE
Firstname: Samuel
Service Number: 3358
Date Death: 25/09/1915
Other: 9th Bn. (T.).
SNWM roll: THE HIGHLAND LIGHT INFANTRY
Rank: L Sgt
Theatre of death: F.& F.
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 18, 2013 12:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Terence Cole

CWGC/SNWM:

Private
No. 11684
Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, 6th Bn.
Date of Death: 6th September 1915
Additional information: Born Cadder, Lanarkshire. Died at sea.

Commemorated:
Helles Memorial, Panel 97 to 101

Also listed on Bonnybridge Civic Memorial, see:

http://warmemscot.s4.bizhat.com/viewtopic.php?t=87
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 22, 2014 1:08 pm    Post subject: Pte. John "Jack" Pirie Reply with quote

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John Pirie

Known on CWGC as Jack.

(Glasgow Herald 13th June 1915)
"John Pirie, jun., of the Glasgow Highlanders, was killed in action in France on July 7. He was 22 years of age, and was the second son of Mr John Pirie, Muirhead, Chryston."

CWGC
PIRIE, JACK
Rank: Private
Service No: 2597
Date of Death: 07/07/1915
Age: 22
Regiment/Service: Highland Light Infantry 9th (Glasgow Hds.) Bn.
Grave Reference: I. C. 6.
Cemetery: GUARDS CEMETERY, WINDY CORNER, CUINCHY
Additional Information: Son of John and Annie Pirie, of Sheelagreen, Muirhead Chryston, Glasgow.

SNWM
Surname: PIRIE
Forename: John
Rank: Pte
Service number: 2597
Date of death: 7 July 1915
Theatre of death: F&F
Cause of death: Killed in action
SNWM roll: THE HIGHLAND LIGHT INFANTRY
Other detail: 9th Bn. (T.).
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PostPosted: Thu May 19, 2016 7:52 am    Post subject: Michael Kelly GH MM Reply with quote

Michael Kelly Pte S/3169 M.M. 7th Gordon Highlanders b Longriggend Lanark e Chryston Killed in Action F&F 26/03/1918 Soldiers Effects: Mo: Mary. Also Miss Jeanie Pollock. Soldiers Will 1 Page. Arras Memorial M. R. 20 Panel 8 & 9 AJ 28-06-18 P5:MM: Chryston
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PostPosted: Wed May 25, 2016 7:08 am    Post subject: William John Ward GH Reply with quote

William John Ward Pte 263059 5th Gordon Highlanders b Houston, Renfrew e Hamilton Age 38 Killed in Action F&F 31/07/1917 Husband of Jane Shaw (formerly Ward), of West Row, Garnkirk, Chryston, Glasgow. 1901 Census: b 1880: Occ Estate Labourer. Mother: Jane Cameron. New Irish Farm Cemetery, St Jean-Les-Ypres B 096 Plot XXVI Row A Grave 20 The Scotsman 07-09-17 P7: Chryston
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