The Scottish Military Research Group - Commemorations Project

Adam Brown · Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2009 7:00 pm Post subject: Connel, Lorn

Connel War Memorial
Location: St Oran's Church, Connel
OS Ref: NM 914 342

The war memorials for Connel are in the local parish church. It is a small dark church and the memorials are brass so I've struggled to get any decent images.

I have a transcription which I will post. The first name on the Great War memorial is Thomas Nelson of the Edinburgh publishing family.

Adam Brown · Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2009 7:01 pm Post subject:

The Church

Adam Brown · Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2009 7:07 pm Post subject:

NELSON, THOMAS ARTHUR
Rank: Captain
Regiment/Service: Lothians and Border Horse
Secondary Regiment: attd. Machine Gun Corps
Age: 40
Date of Death: 09/04/1917
Additional information: Son of Thomas Nelson and Jessie Kemp Nelson; husband of Margaret Balfour Nelson Maze, of Achnacloich, Connel, Argyll. Born at St. Leonards, Edinburgh. Scottish Rugby International.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: VII. G. 26.
Cemetery: FAUBOURG D'AMIENS CEMETERY, ARRAS

STEWART, JAMES WILKIE LEIGHTON
Rank: Company Serjeant Major
Regiment/Service: King's Own Scottish Borderers
Unit Text: "C" Coy. 6th Bn.
Age: 28
Date of Death: 21/10/1916
Service No: 12466
Awards: D C M
Additional information: Son of Jane and Alexander Stewart, of 106, Mill St., Selkirk. Native of Connel Ferry, Argyll.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: I. F. 7.
Cemetery: WARLENCOURT BRITISH CEMETERY

CAMERON, ALLAN
Rank: Corporal
Regiment/Service: Gordon Highlanders
Unit Text: 1st/7th Bn.
Age: 36
Date of Death: 24/07/1918
Service No: 313008
Additional information: Son of John and the late Catherine Cameron; husband of Elsie Cameron, of 2, Forebank Terrace, Dundee. Gamekeeper at Glenure, Argyllshire. Born at Cadderly, Ardchattan, Argyllshire.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: XVI. B. 23.
Cemetery: TERLINCTHUN BRITISH CEMETERY, WIMILLE

Note: Ardchattan is the parish just across Connel Bridge.

Adam Brown · Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2009 9:38 pm Post subject:

MacLEAN, Hugh
Rank: Lance Corporal
Regiment/Service: Cameron Highlanders

CLARK, John
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders

MacCALLUM, PETER DUNCAN
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Gordon Highlanders
Unit Text: 1st Bn.
Age: 19
Date of Death: 20/04/1918
Service No: S/21506
Additional information: Son of John MacCallum, of Stonefield, Connel, Argyll. Native of Achnacloich, Connel, Argyll.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: III. C. 32.
Cemetery: CHOCQUES MILITARY CEMETERY

Commemorated on the family headstone in Achnaba Churchyard

Adam Brown · Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2009 9:44 pm Post subject:

MacCORQUODALE, NEIL
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
Unit Text: "D" Coy. 1st/7th Bn.
Age: 19
Date of Death: 20/09/1917
Service No: 202370
Additional information: Son of Dugald and Isabella MacCorquodale, of Burnside, Connel, Argyll.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 141 to 143 and 162.
Memorial: TYNE COT MEMORIAL

MENZIES, Alexander Cameron
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Royal Scots
Unit Text: 1st/9th Bn.
Age: 19
Date of Death: 01/08/1918
Service No: 44274
Additional information: Son of Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Menzies, of 47, Dragon Avenue, Harrogate, Yorks.
Place of birth: Connel, Argyllshire
Other information: Formerly 2/5438 T.R. Bn. 56514 Highland Light Infantry
Grave/Memorial Reference: III. C. 4.
Cemetery: RAPERIE BRITISH CEMETERY, VILLEMONTOIRE

RINTOUL, MALCOLM
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Seaforth Highlanders
Unit Text: 1st Bn.
Age: 22
Date of Death: 20/12/1914
Service No: 594
Additional information: Son of Robert Rintoul, of 52, Castle St., Inverness.
Place of birth: Macquairn Argyllshire
Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 38 and 39.
Memorial: LE TOURET MEMORIAL

Adam Brown · Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2009 9:49 pm Post subject:

RINTOUL, William
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders

Possibly this man

Unit Text: 14th Bn.
Date of Death: 09/01/1917
Service No: S/6669
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Priez Farm Mem. 7.
Cemetery: GUARDS' CEMETERY, COMBLES

MacLEOD, Alexander
Rank: Trooper
Regiment/Service: Scottish Horse

Perhaps this man

McLEOD, ALEXANDER
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Ayrshire Yeomanry
Age: 39
Date of Death: 14/03/1917
Service No: 3258
Additional information: Son of Duncan McLeod.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: M. 203.
Cemetery: OBAN (PENNYFUIR) CEMETERY

RINTOUL, John
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: 5th Dragoon Guards (Princess Charlotte of Wales's)
Date of Death: 26/11/1917
Service No: GS/8898
Place of birth: Oban
Grave/Memorial Reference: III. F. 13/14.
Cemetery: ANNEUX BRITISH CEMETERY

Adam Brown · Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2009 10:04 pm Post subject:

I have been unable to identify any of the Second World War names

CAMPBELL, Duncan
Army
1939-1945

MacDONALD, Allan
Royal Navy
1939-1945

MacEDWARDS, John
Royal Navy
1939-1945

MacPHAIL, Alexander
Royal Air Force
1939-1945

MacPHERSON, Robert
Royal Navy
1939-1945

anne park · Posted: Thu May 26, 2016 6:48 am Post subject: Peter Duncan McCallum GH update

Peter Duncan McCallum Pte S/21506 1st Gordon Highlanders e Stirling Age 19 Killed in Action F & F 20/04/1918 Son of John MacCallum, of Stonefield, Connel, Argyll. Native of Achnacloich, Connel, Argyll. Soldiers Will 4 Pages. Chocques Military Cemetery Fr 0098 Plot III Row C Grave 32 The Scotsman 01-06-18 P7: Connel.
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anne park

Angus McCorquodale Pte S/40469 8th/10th Gordon Highlanders e Inverness Age 30 Killed in Action F&F 12/04/1917 Soldiers Effects: Bro: Archibald. Service Returns: 118/AF 461. Age 33. Feuchy Chapel British Cemetery, Wancourt Fr 0531 Plot III Row J Grave 10 ADJ 10-05-17 P4: Connel Ferry
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Researching WWI info from Aberdeenshire, Banffshire, Kincardineshire & Morayshire.