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PostPosted: Sat Aug 09, 2008 1:09 pm    Post subject: Whiting Bay, Isle of Arran Reply with quote

Whiting Bay, Isle of Arran
Location - in the grounds of Whiting Bay & Kildonan Parish Church
UKNIWM ref no: not listed
OS map ref: NS047272


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PostPosted: Sat Aug 09, 2008 1:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Barely legible are the names of the McNab sisters - buried at Kilbride Old Churchyard (see: HERE)


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PostPosted: Sat Aug 09, 2008 1:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Unusual to have sisters on the memorial. Possibly added later by the look of it.

Name: McNAB, ANNE
Initials: A
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Auxiliary Territorial Service
Age: 25
Date of Death: 02/03/1944
Service No: W/181485
Additional information: Daughter of Edward McNab and of Helen McNab (nee Hamilton), of Kildonan.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Plot 6. Joint grave 296.
Cemetery: KILBRIDE OLD CHURCHYARD

Name: McNAB, FLORA HENDRY
Initials: F H
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Auxiliary Territorial Service
Secondary Regiment: Royal Artillery
Secondary Unit Text: attd. 163 (M) H.A.A. Regt.
Age: 23
Date of Death: 21/04/1945
Service No: W/177784
Additional information: Daughter of Edward McNab and of Helen McNab (nee Hamilton), of Kildonan.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Plot 6. Joint grave 296.
Cemetery: KILBRIDE OLD CHURCHYARD
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 11, 2008 7:42 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Duncan Cumming Royal Highlanders
James Cumming Forrest RSF
James Hamilton NZEF
Archibald Kelso Cameron Highlanders
Allan Ramsay Kerr RE
James Banks Cumming McKelvie RFA
Robert McKelvie Royal Highlanders
James Campbell McMillan ASC
James McMurtie Cameron Highlanders
John Poole CEF
Neil Shaw Royal Highlanders
Robert Wishart TRB

1939-45

Alex Cook MN
Allan Ramsay Nicol D.S.C MN
Annie McNab ATS
Flora McNab ATS
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 03, 2009 12:03 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I never noticed this memorial when it was first posted but it was done by the same firm responsible for the Meikle VC memorial now in Dingwall.



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