The Scottish War Memorials Project

dhubthaigh · Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2007 4:21 pm Post subject:

I noticed this small piece in the Blairgowrie Advertiser:

Last week we reported the death in action of Lieut. W.C.O. Barrie, Black Watch, younger son of Mrs Barrie, Strathview, Kirriemuir, and now there has come notification that his elder brother, Corporal Charles D.O. Barrie, London Scottish, who was reported missing on 1st July, had also been killed in action.
Lieut. Barrie was a teacher, and his brother a journalist, and both were nephews of Sir James Barrie, the novelist.
(This would of course be Sir James Matthew Barrie, of Peter Pan fame.)

Name: BARRIE, WILLIAM COWAN OGILVY
Initials: W C O
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Lieutenant
Regiment/Service: Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)
Unit Text: 5th Bn.
Age: 34
Date of Death: 14/10/1916
Additional information: Son of the late Alexander Ogilvy Barrie, H.M.I.S., and of Mary Cowan Barrie, of "Strathview," Kirriemuir, Forfar.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Pier and Face 10 A.
Memorial: THIEPVAL MEMORIAL

Name: BARRIE, CHARLES DAVID OGILVY
Initials: C D O
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Corporal
Regiment/Service: London Regiment (London Scottish)
Unit Text: (5067). "D" Coy. 1st/14th Bn.
Age: 35
Date of Death: 01/07/1916
Service No: 511509
Additional information: Son of Alexander Ogilvy Barrie and Mary Barrie, of Strathview, Kirriemuir, Forfarshire; husband of Mary Letitia Barrie, of 87, Lonsdale Rd., Barnes, London.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Pier and Face 9 C and 13 C.
Memorial: THIEPVAL MEMORIAL

john burnett · Joined: 29 Jan 2007 Posts: 483 Location: Fife

Thanks to Pat Anderson for the photo.

Keptie · Joined: 24 Feb 2009 Posts: 350 Location: Angus

Thanks once again to John Burnett for adding my pic to this set of pics. This pic was in a Great War display at the Musuem in Kirriemuir a year or two ago . Possibly on the lead up to the anniversary of the end of the Great War . I recently returned to the museum and that display has gone along with the Kirriemuir Post office war memorial

patrick w anderson