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David McNay
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Location: Lanarkshire, Scotland
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 Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 10:37 pm Post subject: Carnwath |
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alexmaclennan
Joined: 24 Jul 2007
Posts: 154
Location: Just West of Glasgow
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| Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2007 11:05 pm Post subject: Carnwath WM Inscription |
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What I recorded for UKNIWM:
Main Dedication Inscription
TO THE GLORY OF GOD
AND SACRED TO THE MEMORY
OF THE MEN OF THIS PARISH
WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR
1914 TO 1918
Names of Fallen in three columns. Major William Bertram is the only person gIven a rank. Forename and surnames of rest are given and remaining names are arranged alphabetically.
MAJOR WILLIAM BERTRAM
LH Column
JOHN ALEXANDER
WILLIAM ALEXANDER
JOHN BURTON
JOHN CLARK
ROBERT COOPER
ADAM COPLAND
JAMES FORREST
JOHN B. GORDON
Centre Column
ALEXANDER KAY
JOHN KAY
HUGH LIVINGSTONE
DAVID K. MICHIE
ANDREW MCMORRAN
WILLIAM ORR
ALEXANDER RANKIN
WILLIAM ROBERTSON
RH Column
JOHN RUSSELL
JOHN RUSSELL
ROBERT SOMERVILLE
GEORGE SPENCE
JAMES SPENCE
WILLIAM STAIRMAND
RAYMOND VEITCH
GEORGE WHITE
“THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE”
Names of WW2 Fallen in two columns. Forename and surnames are given and names are arranged alphabetically.
ALSO
IN EVERLASTING REMEMBRANCE OF THE MEN OF
CARNWATH AND DISTRICT WHO DIED IN DEFENCE
OF THEIR KING AND COUNTRY
1939 - 1945
ADAM B. BROWN
JOHN W. A. COPLAND
JOHN C. IRVING
WILLIAM B. JAMIESON
HENRY RUDGE
JOHN SOMMERVILLE
ARCHIBALD C. STEELE
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Adam Brown
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Location: Edinburgh (From Sutherland)
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| Posted: Sun Sep 13, 2009 12:13 am Post subject: |
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An uncommon unit for one of the Great War dead
SPENCE, JAMES
Rank: Trooper
Regiment/Service: Cullinan's Horse
Age: 37
Date of Death: 28/02/1915
Service No: 464
Additional information: Son of Thomas and Betsy Spence, of Braehead, Carnwath, Lanarkshire, Scotland. Buried in Kamden Farm Cemetery, Kuruman District.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: A/C. Sp. Mem.
Cemetery: Upington (Station) Cemetery, South Africa |
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Adam Brown
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And I've just realised my namesake (no relation) is on this memorial for the Second World War
BROWN, ADAM
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Royal Scots
Age: 40
Date of Death: 05/08/1944
Service No: 2761378
Additional information: Son of Adam Baird Brown and Agnes Minto Brown; husband of Elizabeth Jackson Brown, of Carnwath.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Grave 2183.
Cemetery: CARNWATH NEW CEMETERY |
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DelBoy
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Posts: 3900
Location: Arbroath, Angus, Scotland
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| Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2012 9:56 am Post subject: Tpr. James Spence |
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| Adam Brown wrote: | An uncommon unit for one of the Great War dead
SPENCE, JAMES
Rank: Trooper
Regiment/Service: Cullinan's Horse
Age: 37
Date of Death: 28/02/1915
Service No: 464
Additional information: Son of Thomas and Betsy Spence, of Braehead, Carnwath, Lanarkshire, Scotland. Buried in Kamden Farm Cemetery, Kuruman District.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: A/C. Sp. Mem.
Cemetery: Upington (Station) Cemetery, South Africa |
(Glasgow Herald 12th March 1915)
"On service, near Vryburg, South Africa. Trooper James Spence, age 35 years, Cullinan's Horse, son of the late Thomas Spence, Highcross Farm, Yieldshields and Braehead, Carnwath, Lanarkshire."
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