The Scottish Military Research Group - Commemorations Project

jamiemcginlay · Joined: 20 Dec 2006 Posts: 930 Location: Glasgow

Glamis - Angus District (Forfar Landward)
UKNIWM Ref no. 5671

The Glamis war memorial is a freestone tapering column on pedestal which is surmounted by a cross. the memorial stands on a raised circular plinth surrounded by a low wall and entered by two low steps in front of the monument. The names of the WWI dead are listed on a bronze tablet set on the front of the pedestal.
The memorial stands at the road junction in the village beside the Police Station.
The inscription reads:
'TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND TO
THE UNDYING MEMORY OF THE
MEN OF GLAMIS PARISH WHO
FELL IN THE GREAT WAR'

WWI ROLL OF HONOUR:
BUCHANAN JAMES R. HIGHLAND LIGHT INFANTRY PRIVATE
CLARK JOHN CANADIANS PRIVATE
CRICHTON PETER BLACK WATCH PRIVATE
ELLSON JOHN D. NEW ZEALANDERS CORPORAL
FEARN DAVID BLACK WATCH PRIVATE
FYFFE DAVID ARGYLL & SUTHERLAND HIGHLANDERS PRIVATE
GIBSON ROBERT NEW ZEALANDERS CORPORAL
GORDON PETER BLACK WATCH PRIVATE
GRANT WILLIAM C. ROYAL GARRISON ARTILLERY GUNNER
GUILD W. CANADIANS PRIVATE
HILL ANDREW BLACK WATCH PRIVATE
HOOD JAMES NEW ZEALANDERS PRIVATE
JOHNSTON R.T. ROYAL ENGINEERS SAPPER
JOHNSTONE JOHN BLACK WATCH LANCE CORPORAL
KINNISON JAMES BLACK WATCH PRIVATE
KYDD GEORGE AUSTRALIANS PRIVATE
LEONARD CHARLES E. LANCS PRIVATE
LYON FERGUS BLACK WATCH CAPTAIN CAPTAIN THE HONOURABLE FERGUS LYON
MAXWELL D. BLACK WATCH CAPTAIN M.C. WITH BAR
MAXWELL JOHN R. FIFE & FORFAR YEOMANRY CORPORAL
MCGREGOR ALEXANDER BLACK WATCH LIEUTENANT
MILNE CHARLES GORDON HIGHLANDERS PRIVATE
MUNRO F. CANADIANS PRIVATE
RITCHIE JAMES BLACK WATCH PRIVATE
ROSS DAVID A. NEW ZEALANDERS CORPORAL
SCOTT ALEXANDER HIGHLAND LIGHT INFANTRY CORPORAL
SMALL HARRY S.H. PRIVATE
SMART ALEXANDER BLACK WATCH SERGEANT
SUTTIE ANDREW HIGHLAND LIGHT INFANTRY LANCE CORPORAL
TAYLOR EDWARD ROYAL SCOTS CORPORAL
TOSH JOHN CAMERON HIGHLANDERS CORPORAL

Adam Brown · Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 11:19 pm Post subject:

I take it the Captain Lyon, Black Watch listed is Bowes-Lyon the Queen's uncle.

Name: BOWES-LYON, The Hon. FERGUS
Initials: F
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Captain
Regiment/Service: Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)
Unit Text: 8th Bn.
Age: 26
Date of Death: 27/09/1915
Additional information: Son of 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, of Glamis Castle, Forfarshire; husband of Lady Christian Bowes-Lyon (now Lady Christian Martin). Educated at Eton. Previously served with 2nd Bn. in India. (Queen Mother's brother).
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 78 to 83.
Memorial: LOOS MEMORIAL

Adam

dhubthaigh · Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2007 10:32 pm Post subject:

Captain The Hon. Fergus Bowes-Lyon (April 18, 1889 - September 27, 1915) was a brother of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother.

He was born at Glamis Castle in Forfarshire and educated at Eton College, Berkshire. Just a fortnight after the start of World War I, he married Lady Christian Norah Dawson-Damer, daughter of the 5th Earl of Portarlington. Ten months later, she bore him a daughter, Rosemary Lusia, on 18 July 1915.

In the First World War he served with the 8th Battalion, Black Watch and was killed in the opening stages of the Battle of Loos. Leading an attack on the German lines, his leg was blown off by a barrage of German artillery and he fell back into his sergeant's arms. Bullets struck him in the chest and shoulder and he died on the field. He is commemorated on the Loos Memorial.

His mother, Cecilia Bowes-Lyon, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne, was severely affected by the loss of her son, and after his death became an invalid withdrawn from public life until the marriage of her daughter Elizabeth to the future king in 1923.

dhubthaigh · Posted: Mon May 25, 2009 7:13 pm Post subject:

dhubthaigh · Posted: Mon May 25, 2009 7:21 pm Post subject:

Name: MAXWELL, DAVID
Initials: D
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Captain
Regiment/Service: Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)
Unit Text: 5th Bn.
Age: 28
Date of Death: 03/08/1918
Awards: M C and Bar
Additional information: Son of David Maxwell, of Ballindarg, Forfar, and of Jane Rennie Maxwell. Born at Upper Drumgley, Glamis, Forfar.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: II. F. 104.
Cemetery: SENLIS FRENCH NATIONAL CEMETERY

Name: MAXWELL
Initials: J R
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Corporal
Regiment/Service: Fife and Forfar Yeomanry
Unit Text: 1st
Date of Death: 18/10/1915
Service No: 1541
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: I. E. 13.
Cemetery: GREEN HILL CEMETERY

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