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PostPosted: Fri Dec 22, 2006 11:17 am    Post subject: Polmont Old Parish Church Reply with quote

Anne Andersons photo, taken from her thread of Falkirk area memorials.

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PostPosted: Thu Sep 01, 2016 6:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks to Anne Anderson for tracing "my man" to this memorial.

Anthony Thomson Weir – age 23 – Private (330931) 1/9th (Glasgow Highland) Battalion, Highland Light Infantry.
Anthony enlisted in Glasgow as Private (3248) in the 1/9th HLI, joined the battalion in France in June 1915 and served at Delville Wood, the Somme and La Fontaine.
Born 1892 at Ringford, Tongland, Kirkcudbrightshire as Anthony Thomson McSkimming. Son of Agnes (McSkimming) Weir and step son of John Weir of Lochside, Redding. Polmont, Stirlingshire and of Main Street, Alexandria, Dunbartonshire.
Missing in Action on 20 May 1917 and named on the Arras Memorial, France.
Also named on the Castle Douglas War Memorial, on the St. Andrew's Church memorial, now in the Castle Douglas Parish Church and on the Polmont War Memorial.
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 11, 2021 5:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

PTE. BURRELL, ADAM.

Named on the Channelkirk Parish War Memorial in Oxton village, Berwickshire as:

ADAM P. BURRELL, PTE. G.H.
Adam Pringle Burrell – age 20 – Private (12952) 103rd Company, Machine Gun Corps.
Adam was employed at the Caledonian Railway Company Locomotive Department at Stirling when he enlisted in the Gordon Highlanders in June 1914. He joined the 2nd Battalion in France as Private (S/8112) in December 1915. He was wounded twice and was transferred to the MGC in February 1916. Adam's remains were recovered from the battlefield in November 1920.
Born 1895 in Channelkirk. Son of Adam and Agnes (Cowan) Burrell of Crossgatehead Farm, Brightons, Polmont and of Craigs, Polmont, Stirlingshire.
Killed in Action on 1 July 1916 and buried in Ovillers Military Cemetery, Somme, France.
Also named on the Brightons & Craigs section of the Polmont Parish War Memorial, on the Polmont Old Parish Church memorial and on the Caledonian Railway Company memorial in Glasgow Central Station.
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