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 Posted: Sun Aug 14, 2011 7:26 pm Post subject: Lt Gen Grierson, Glasgow Cathedral |
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UKNIWM – Not Listed
In Glasgow Cathedral OS Map Ref NS 590 650
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Adam Brown
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| Posted: Sun Aug 14, 2011 8:49 pm Post subject: |
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General Grierson died a few days after landing in France with the BEF in August 1914. Had he lived he may have taken the job of Commander-in-Chief instead of Douglas Haig.
He wrote the definitive reference work on the Pre-1908 Scottish Volunteers. "Records of the Scottish Volunteer Force 1859-1908"
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DelBoy
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| Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2011 12:07 am Post subject: Lt. Gen. James Moncrieff Grierson |
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He appears to be the very first Death notice of a soldier in the Glasgow Herald from the war (Aug 19th 1914).
Interestingly he was repatriated for burial in Glasgow which, must be a rare thing among those who died abroad during the war.
Name: GRIERSON, Sir JAMES MONCRIEFF
Initials: J M
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Lieutenant General
Regiment/Service: General Staff
Unit Text: Commanding II Army Corps
Secondary Regiment: Royal Artillery
Secondary Unit Text: late
Age: 55
Date of Death: 17/08/1914
Awards: K C B, C M G, C V O
Additional information: Son of George Moncrieff Grierson and his wife Allison Lyon Walker. Born at Glasgow.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Primus. 38.
Cemetery: GLASGOW NECROPOLIS |
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Adam Brown
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| Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2011 10:36 pm Post subject: Re: Lt. Gen. James Moncrieff Grierson |
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| DelBoy wrote: | Interestingly he was repatriated for burial in Glasgow which, must be a rare thing among those who died abroad during the war.
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The great and the good could pull strings early in the war to get bodies of loved ones repatriated but the practice was stopped in the spring of 1915 I think.
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A better pic
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