The Scottish Military Research Group - Commemorations Project

David McNay · Posted: Sun Dec 24, 2006 2:06 am Post subject: Kirkintilloch

1418 side2 by Scottish Military Research Group, on Flickr

David McNay · Posted: Sun Dec 24, 2006 2:23 am Post subject:

First World War names:

ww1a by Scottish Military Research Group, on Flickr

ww1b by Scottish Military Research Group, on Flickr

ww1c by Scottish Military Research Group, on Flickr

ww1d by Scottish Military Research Group, on Flickr

David McNay · Posted: Sun Dec 24, 2006 2:24 am Post subject:

The Second World War is commemorated on the other side of the gate:

3945 side by Scottish Military Research Group, on Flickr

David McNay · Posted: Sun Dec 24, 2006 2:38 am Post subject:

Second World War names:

ww2a by Scottish Military Research Group, on Flickr

ww2b by Scottish Military Research Group, on Flickr

David McNay · Posted: Sun Dec 24, 2006 2:38 am Post subject:

IMG_1037 by Scottish Military Research Group, on Flickr

IMG_1036 by Scottish Military Research Group, on Flickr

IMG_1038 by Scottish Military Research Group, on Flickr

Adam Brown · Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 12:33 am Post subject:

This Kirkintilloch man is listed on the Dinxperlo Liberation Memorial in The Netherlands

Name: KENNY, NATHANIEL
Initials: N
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
Unit Text: 7th Bn.
Age: 18
Date of Death: 30/03/1945
Service No: 14825072
Additional information: Son of John and Mary Kenny, of Kirkintilloch, Dunbartonshire.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: 60. B. 1.
Cemetery: REICHSWALD FOREST WAR CEMETERY

Adam

milmor_1 · Joined: 03 Jun 2009 Posts: 118 Location: Ireland

WILSON, John Lance Corporal 5578 7th Bn Royal Munster Fusiliers
Resided: Kirkintilloch, Dumbarton Enlisted: Curragh Camp, Co Kildare.
Age: 21 Date of Death: 09/08/1915 Cause: Killed in action.
Family Notes: Son of, Alexander Wilson, of 42, Balfour St., Leith, Edinburgh.
Grave/Memorial: Panel 185 to 190. Helles Memorial.
Irish War Memorial Records Page No: Volume VIII, Page 353.

Best Regards

Mal

milmor_1 · Joined: 03 Jun 2009 Posts: 118 Location: Ireland

I have located this soldier, he is named in the SNWM but from what I can see from the photos he is not named on this memorial.

GALLACHER, Bernard Private 976 6th Bn Royal Munster Fusiliers
Born: Kirkintilloch, Dumbartonshire Resided: Kirkintilloch Enlisted: Kirkintilloch.
Date of Death: 13/08/1915 Cause: Died of Wounds.
Special Notes: Private Gallacher is listed in Soldiers Died (Part 72) and the CWGC with his date of death shown as “13/8/15”; the IWM records show his date of death as “03/8/15”.
Grave/Memorial: Panel 185 to 190. Helles Memorial.
Other Memorials: Private Gallacher is named on the Scottish Roll of Honour, Scottish National War Memorial, Edinburgh Castle, Edinburgh.
Irish War Memorial Records Page No: Volume III, Page 241.

David McNay · Posted: Thu Apr 22, 2010 5:45 am Post subject:

Bernard Gallacher is listed on the memorial.

milmor_1 · Joined: 03 Jun 2009 Posts: 118 Location: Ireland

Thanks for the info david (must be going blind) I will add this info to my records.
Mal

apanderson · Posted: Thu Apr 22, 2010 11:42 am Post subject:

Name: CALDWELL, DAVID
Initials: D
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Royal Scots Fusiliers
Unit Text: 1st/4th Bn.
Age: 34
Date of Death: 26/08/1918
Service No: 48496
Additional information: Son of William Caldwell, of 3, Shamrock St. Kirkintilloch, Glasgow, and the late Agnes Wilson Caldwell. Previously served for two years on H.M.S. "Patea." Born at Langloan, Coatbridge.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: X. B. 23.
Cemetery: TILLOY BRITISH CEMETERY, TILLOY-LES-MOFFLAINES

Surname CALDWELL
Firstname David
Service Number 48496
Date Death 26/08/1918
Place of birth Coatbridge
Other 1/4th Bn.
SNWM roll THE ROYAL SCOTS FUSILIERS
Rank Pte
Theatre of death F.& F.

Possibly also listed on Baldernock Civic Memorial, see:
http://warmemscot.s4.bizhat.com/viewtopic.php?p=37374#37374

milmor_1 · Joined: 03 Jun 2009 Posts: 118 Location: Ireland

MANN, Andrew Private 2133 1st Bn Royal Munster Fusiliers
Born: Kirkintilloch, Dunbartonshire Resided: Kirkintilloch Enlisted: Kirkintilloch
Age: 29 Date of Death: 21/08/1915 Cause: Killed in action.
Family Notes: Husband of, Barbara Barr Mann, of 23, Freeland Place, Kirkintilloch, Glasgow.
Grave/Memorial: Panel 185 to 190.Helles Memorial.
Irish War Memorial Records Page No: Volume V, Page 211.

DelBoy · Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2011 2:43 am Post subject: Memorial Transcription

WW1
(344 names)

Adams, John
Aldridge, Douglas H.
Alexander, Archd.
Arnott, David
Bain, David
Barkley, Martin B.
Barr, Robert
Barrett, Charles
Baxter, James R.
Baxter, William
Begg, William
Bell, Alexander M.
Bell, Peter
Bell, Ronald
Bell, William
Bell, William A.E.
Blackman, Frank
Blair, Robert
Blakely, William T.
Bolton, John
Bownas, Frederick
Braiden, Patrick
Brannan, James
Brannan, Patrick
Brebner, A.
Brebner, Geo. W.
Brown, A.G.
Brown, David
Brown, Hugh
Brown, James C.
Bryce, Charles
Burke, Samuel
Burns, Daniel
Burns, Samuel
Caldwell, David
Campbell, Alex.
Campbell, Archd.
Campbell, James
Campbell, James S.
Campbell, William
Campbell, William
Carr, Patrick
Carriban, James

Cassels, James
Chalmers, Hugh
Chamlers, Thomas
Chaplin, George
Clark, A.B.
Clark, Robert
Clenaghan, William
Cochrane, John
Cole, Daniel
Comrie, Daniel
Connell, Daniel B.
Connell, John
Connell, John
Connell, Robert M.
Connell, William
Connell, William
Cooper, Alexander
Cooper, Archibald
Cooper, David
Craig, James
Craig, James K.
Craik, John
Cree, James
Cunningham, Alex.
Currie, Denis
Cuthill, David
Dalglish, John
Davidson, Andrew
Deans, John Ewart
Dickens, Aaron
Dickson, James Y.
Differ, Edward
Ditty, William
Docherty, Ben
Docherty, James
Dow, Wm. J. R.
Downie, Simon
Doyle, Edward
Duff, Henry
Duncan, William
Dyer, Matthew
Edgar, John
Edgar, Joseph

Ferguson, W.
Findlay, Frank
Findlay, James
Fisher, George
Fisher, Thomas
Fleming, Harry
Fleming, James
Fleming, William
Forrest, Daniel
Forrester, John Gilmour
Forsyth, J.B.
Fraser, William S.
Friel, John
Fulton, Charles
Fulton, John
Fyfe, Thomas
Gallacher, Bernard
Gallacher, William
Galloway, Robert
Gartshore, James
Gartshore, William D.
Gibson, David
Gilhenny, John (aka. Gillhaney)
Gillespie, John
Gillespie, William
Glen, Hugh
Goodwin, James
Goodwin, John
Graham, Archibald
Graham, James
Graham, James
Graham, John
Graham, Robert
Graham, Thomas
Grant, W. Henry
Gray, David
Gray, Duncan
Gray, John
Gray, John
Gray, Robert
Gray, Walter S.
Gray, William
Gunnies, Matthew (aka. Gunnis)

Guthrie, Andrew
Guthrie, John
Hall, James
Hall, James W.
Hamilton, James
Hay, James
Henderson, James
Henderson, James R.
Hendrie, William
Henry, William
Herron, James M.
Hislop, James
Hislop, Richard
Hislop, Robert
Hogg, George H.
Hood, William
Hope-Childs H.B. (aka. Harold Bertram Childs)
Hopgood, Robert
Hopkins, Patrick
Horn, Francis
Horne, David
Horne, Robert S.
Houlichan, Peter (aka. Hannon)
Irvine, James
Irvine, Samuel
Jarvie, John
Jarvie, William
Johnstone, W.N.
Keir, James (aka Kerr)
Kelly, Michael
Kennedy, John D.
Kilpatrick, Robert
Kirkpatrick, John
Kirkwood, W.W.
Knox, William
Laing, William
Lang, William
Lakeman, Arthur F.
Lakeman, Harold Leslie
Lamont, James
Law, John
Lawrie, A. Ralph
Lawrie, Thomas

Leitch, Alexander
Lennen, Henry
Leslie, William
Letford, William
Lochhead, John
Lyons, Denis
Lyons, James
McCallum, Alex.
McCallum, Peter
McCafferty, James
McClement, James
McCorkindale, Duncan
McCulloch, Neil
McDonald, Alex.
McDougall, William
McEachern, Peter
McFarlane, Charles M.
McFarlane, James
McFarlane, Malcolm
McGiffidy, James (aka. McGoff)
McGovern, Patrick
McGregor, Matthew
McGuigan, William
McInnes, Matthew D.
McIntosh, James
McIntosh, John
McIntyre, Patrick
McIntyre, Ross
McKay, Bernard
McKay, James
McKay, William S.
McKeen, John
McKenzie, John
McKinnon, Neil
McLay, Joseph
McLean, Robert
McLean, Robert
McLean, William
McLeary, James
McLellan, Frank
McMillan, Archd.
McMillan, Gavin

McMillan, Thomas
McNicol, Samuel
McParland, Patrick
McPherson, Henry
McPherson, John
McQueen, Roderick R.
McSkimming, Wm.
Malseed, James
Mann, Andrew
Marshall, David S.
Marshall, Robert A.
Marshall, William
Martin, Rankin
Mathieson, Donald
Meechan, Alex.
Meek, Alexander
Miller, David
Miller, David
Miller, John G.
Miller, Samuel
Mills, William
Mitchell, George
Mochan, Denis
Money, Thomas
Moore, George A.W.
Morrison, John Maxwell
Morrison, W.S.
Muir, Alexander
Muir, J. Lester
Mulgrew, Hugh
Munro, James
Munro, John A.
Munro, William
Murrie, Thomas
Mustard, Robert
Neaves, William
Nugent, George
Nugent, John
O'Donnell, Edward
Oliver, Charles
Parker, John
Peden, Thomas
Perrie, John

Pollock, Malcolm
Porteous, John
Quail, James
Queen, Alexander
Queen, Robert
Rae, Hugh
Ramsay, Allan
Rankin, John
Reid, David
Reid, John
Reid, Walter
Robertson, David
Robertson, James
Rodden, William
Rodgers, Michael
Rooney, John
Ross, Alex.
Ross, Andrew
Ross, James D.
Russell, Peter
Sawers, George
Scambler, Robert
Scott, Gilbert M.
Scott, John H.
Scott, Matthew
Scott, Robert
Scott, Robert
Semple, Thomas
Semple, William
Shaw, Norman
Shields, James A.
Shields, William
Sinclair, James
Small, Robert
Smith, Archd. G.
Smith, Burns C.
Smith, John N.
Smith, Owen
Smith, Robert C.M.
Smith, William B.
Smith, W. Murray
Sneddon, Thomas W.
Somerville, Robert

Stark, Andrew
Stark, James
Stark, John
Starrs, Patrick
Stevenson, Thomas
Stevenson, Joseph
Stewart, Alex.
Stewart, Andrew
Stewart, Daniel
Stewart, George
Stewart, Robert
Stirling, Alex.
Stirling, John
Stirling, William
Stuart, Charles
Sturrock, David D.
Sturrock, Peter
Sunter, William B.
Tassie, James
Templeton, Robert
Torrance, Robert
Urquhart, Alex.
Waddell, George
Watson, Henry S.
Weir, Walter
Weldon, James
White, James
White, Ralph
Wilson, Harry
Wilson, James
Wilson, James
Wilson, James
Wilson, John B.
Wilson, John
Wilson, S. Ross
Wilson, Robert
Wilson, William
Winning, John
Winning, Matthew
Winning, William
Wood, Robert
Young, Archd.
Young, F.H.
Young, Hugh

DelBoy · Posted: Sat Jul 02, 2011 2:37 pm Post subject: Memorial Transcription

WW2
(89 names)

Adam, Thomas S.
Ballantyne, Archibald
Barr, James M.
Bell, Alexander
Bird, John G.C.
Blakely, A. Charles
Brown, Frank
Cairns, Allan G.
Cairns, Ian G.
Campbell, James R.
Carnochan, Robert J.
Chalmers, William
Chalmers, William
Connell, John
Currie, Robert
Davie, Jackie
Dickson, Robert J.
Dorsie, Hamish W.T.
Forsyth, Robert S.
Frew, George B.
Friel, John
Friel, Patrick
Gillies, Neil M.
Graham, Harold
Graham, James E.D.
Gray, William
Gray, William W.
Hamilton, Robert T.
Hannah, John
Hardie, Alasdair D.
Harrower, John
Harrower, Thomas
Hay, John
Hopgood, William G.A.
Jack, William J.
Jennings, James
Johnston, William L.
Kenny, Nathaniel
Kilpatrick, Alexander
Kirkwood, John
Lang, Donald B.
Lawrie, Annie
McAlpine, Andrew
McAlpine, James

McAuslane, Robert
McDougall, William
McEwan, John S.
McGilvray, John
McKinnon, Hugh
McMillan, Thomas
McPhee, John M.
McPherson, Peter C.
McTiernan, James
MacRae, Donald
Manson, John
Mathieson, Colin
Mathieson, Donald
Millar, George B.
Murray, Alexander W.
Park, Alexander
Paterson, James R.
Pattie, Janet F. (Lithgow)
Peter, John L.
Peter, Martin
Porter, Alexander
Porter, Alexander
Porter, Thomas P.
Portingale, Janet Scott
Preston, George
Proctor, John W.
Rutherford, Henry
Sheridan, Charles
Smith, Charles
Stark, Archibald
Stevenson, David
Stirling, Alexander
Stirling, Thomas
Storrie, Joseph
Telfer, William
Thorburn, John
Tracey, James
Wallace, James R.
Wedge, Arthur W.
Wetheral, Hamish
White, Matthew
Wilson, James G.
Wyllie, Andrew N.
Young, Hugh R.
Young, Robert

Tonym · Joined: 18 Jan 2007 Posts: 224 Location: East Sussex

Name: PORTINGALE, JANET SCOTT
Initials: J S
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Sister
Regiment/Service: Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service
Age: 32
Date of Death: 07/12/1942
Service No: 215393
Additional information: Daughter of William Robert and Helen Scott Portingale, of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 22. Column 2.
Memorial: BROOKWOOD MEMORIAL
_________________
Pte. W. BROWN, Middlesex Regiment, K.I.A Battle of The Somme.
Sgt. J. V. MURPHY, The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders, D.O.W Monte Cassino, Italy.