The Scottish Military Research Group - Commemorations Project

mmm45

Hi
I am researching Sapper 76795 Archie Ferguson "G"Corps RE Signals Company who died in Oct 1918.
His address for the 01 Census was 36 Pembroke St parents Alex and Susan who on their CWGC Data were living at Berkeley Square Glasgow.

Can any one tell me which memorial he may be on in Glasgow and any paper if at all his obituary may have been in?

Thank you.

Ady

apanderson · Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2007 8:58 am Post subject:

Hi Ady,

Welcome to the Scottish War Memorials Forum. Very Happy

I can't help you with the Roll of Honour but I don't expect it'll be too long till someone can!!

I presume this is your Archie?

Name: FERGUSON, ARCHIBALD
Initials: A
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Sapper
Regiment/Service: Royal Engineers
Unit Text: "G" Corps H.Q. Signal Coy.
Age: 24
Date of Death: 24/10/1918
Service No: 76795
Additional information: Son of Alexander and Susan Ferguson, of 210, Berkeley St., Glasgow.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: XXXV. A. 25.
Cemetery: LIJSSENTHOEK MILITARY CEMETERY

Another good place for WW1 queries is the Great War Forum ( http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com ). There's not much the folk on there don't know or can't help you out with.

A few things you might consider . . . . Was Archie born and bred in Glasgow? His name may well appear on a Church Memorial but where to start . . . . . ? Do you have his parents marriage certificate? If they married in (or were married by a minister of) a local church, you could try there.

Do you know anything about his immediate family? Obviously he's not buried in Glasgow but if his parents/grandparents were, there might be a stone somewhere which had Archie's name on it. I recently trawled the length and breadth of both the Western Necropolis and Lambhill Cemeteries looking for men/women killed in any war (at the Maryhill end of Glasgow) but I didn't find any Archie Fergusons, so maybe some of the other Glasgow Cemeteries?

It's also worthwhile keeping an eye on the new 'sister' site to this one: http://scottishwargraves.phpbbweb.com/index.php?mforum=scottishwargraves - you just never know!!

Good luck anyway!

Anne.

P.S. I've been blethering on so much I forgot to add:

The local newspapers were (I think) The Evening Times or the Glasgow Herald. This link is to the Evening Times Roll of Honour (but Archie doesn't appear??) :

http://www.glasgow.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/BFCF38F4-0C36-4990-8DD2-2F2EB9FF62F8/0/Evening_Times_RollofHonour_Oct07.pdf

David McNay · Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2007 7:48 pm Post subject:

I have the Roll of Honour for Glasgow city but I move house in three weeks so it's packed in a box...somewhere.

Once I manage to find it, I'll look it up for you. Unfortunately, I have no timescale of when that'll be.

mmm45 · Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2007 3:50 am Post subject:

Thank you David

Ady

mmm45 · Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 1:10 am Post subject:

Hi everyone just bumping this up again to see if anyone can help.

Thank you.

Ady

David McNay · Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 8:43 am Post subject:

I will lookup the Roll of Honour some time after the 19th of this month.

mmm45 · Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 8:55 am Post subject:

David
Much appreciated.

thank you.

Ady

David McNay · Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 12:42 am Post subject:

Only one Archibald Ferguson, and there's no more information above what you already have. Sapper, Royal Engineers, 210 Berkeley Street.

Regards,

David

mmm45 · Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 1:55 am Post subject:

Thanks David. Very Happy

Ady

Glesga Keelie · Joined: 24 May 2007 Posts: 49 Location: Glasgow

I hope I am not sending you on a wild goose chase here pal but there was an Archibald Ferguson listed on this memorial which was the Kent Road Higher Grade School in Berkeley Street in Anderston. He was listed in the 1918 section of the School Memorial...alas the memorial has disappeared in the last few years since I took this photo of it which was then Woodside Secondary which is now the Gaelic School in Berkeley Street. I had made enquiries as to what has happened to it since the school was modernised but no one seems to know of its whereabouts. This was the school that Archie would have attended as a teenager living in Anderston...I hope it is of some help to you.

Yours Aye

Charlie McDonald aka The Glesga Keelie.

Glesga Keelie · Joined: 24 May 2007 Posts: 49 Location: Glasgow

See if this is any better...

mmm45 · Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2009 1:52 pm Post subject:

Just wanted to send my very belated thanks for the info supplied.I havent been on site for a wee while.

Ady