The Scottish War Memorials Project

spoons · Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2007 6:48 pm Post subject: Kirkconnel

Another one with a nice statue, no idea who by, but someone will add the info no doubt?

UKNIWM Ref: 8548

OS Map Ref: NS 730 120

Adam Brown · Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2007 10:33 pm Post subject:

Spoons

I don't know who is responsible but the figure bears more than a passing resemblance to the scowling figure on Holytown's war memorial in Lanarkshire.

One's a highlander and the other a lowlander but the head, hands and stance are all very similar.

Adam

Adam Brown · Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 12:57 am Post subject:

This Kirkconnel man is listed on the Dinxperlo Liberation Memorial in The Netherlands

BURNS, Robert
Rank: Private
Service number 14792627
Unit: 'C' Company, 5th Bn Seaforth Highlanders
Date of death: 29/03/1945
Place of birth: Dumfries
Age: 33
Additional information: Husband of Jane Muir Burns (nee Rennie), of Kirkconnel, Dumfriesshire.
Grave/Memorial Reference: 61. G. 17.
Cemetery: REICHSWALD FOREST WAR CEMETERY

Adam

jamiemcginlay · Joined: 20 Dec 2006 Posts: 918 Location: Glasgow

Adam both memorials were by Messrs. Scott & Rae of Glasgow, the Kirkconnel monument being the first.

The Scott & Rae Daybook has the entry:
Order number 5114, Kirkconnel, Figure & Pedestal, Date of Erection July 1920, Day Book 167.

KevinStoke · . Joined: 09 Jan 2007 Posts: 180

WW1
Pte James Anderson KOSB
Pte William Anderson KOSB
Pte Joseph Ashley KOSB
Pte David Beattie SG
Pte Alex Black SH
Pte Walter Black KOSB
Pte John Brown KOSB
Cpl John Bryden QOCH
Pte George Cowan KOSB
Cpl Thomas Cowan KOSB
Pte David Crinean A&SH
Pte John Crinean KOSB
Pte Robert Crinean SH
L/Cpl James Cross RSF
Pte James Davers KOSB
Pte William Douglas KOSB
Pte Thomas Dunn KOSB
Pte Daniel Farnworth QOCH
Pte William Farnworth RSF
2nd Lieu Harold Foster RNVR
Pte Stephen Gibson KOSB
Pte James Gilchrist QOCH
L/Cpl John Gilchrist QOCH
Cpl James Goodall QOCH
Sgt Daniel Gordon QOCH
Pte George Griffin KOSB
Pte Robert Guthrie HLI
Pte John Foley KOSB
Tpr Samuel Guthrie Lanark Yeo
Sgt Andrew F Harkness KOSB
Cpl Thomas Hunter KOSB
Pte Robert Hutton QOCH
Sgt John Jackson KOSB
2nd Lieu James Kerr KOSB
Pte James Kirk KOSB
Pte John Leary QOCH
Pte William Leary Cyc Co
Pte William Lennox KOSB
Pte William Lightbody KOSB
Pte John Love West Yorks
Sgt Patrick McAtee KOSB
Pte William McBride KOSB
Pte Alex McCormick KOSB
Pte Joseph McDowall KOSB
Pte Andrew McIlroy KOSB
Pte Roderick McKnight KOSB
Pte William McKnight SH
Pte George McMillan RSF
Sgt James McMillan D.C.M. RSF
Pte James McMinn SG
Pte Joshua Mathieson A&SH
Pte Thomas Mathieson KOSB
Pte James Melvin KOSB
Pte Joseph Melvin KOSB
Pte Alex Millar KOSB
Pte James Wallace RSF
Pte Frank Milligan KOSB
Pte Robert Monteith KOSB
Sgt Tom Morrison KOSB
Pte Richard Morton RSF
Pte James Murray QOCH
Cpl James Nicol KOSB
L/Cpl Joseph Palner KOSB
Sgt Matthew Parker D.C.M. KOSB
Sgt Robert Parker KOSB
Pte William Paterson KOSB
Pte John Rafferty MGC
Pte William Rennie CAN
Pte William Shankland KOSB
Pte John Sharpe RH
Pte Thomas Sinnett KOSB
Pte Edward Smith QOCH
Cpl Richard Smith RE
Pte Thomas Spence SH
L/Cpl James Stewart KOSB
Pte James Stitt CAN
Pte Andrew Taylor KOSB
Pte Ernest Taylor MGC
Pte Joseph Taylor KOSB
Pte William Taylor KOSB
Pte Robert Threlfall HLI
Pte James Walker KOSB
Pte James Welsh KOSB
Pte Walter Wilson RSF
WW2
Robert Baird RN
R W Broadfoot RE
F/Sgt Andrew Burns RAF
Pte Robert Burns S Highrs
L/Cpl Thomas Douglas KOSB
Pte James Gilbertson AAC
Gnr Thomas Gray RA
Pte Charles W Grierson DLI
Sgt Charles Harper RAF
Pte David Houston KOSB
Pte John B Jardine KOSB
L/Cpl Peter Kenny KOSB
Gdsm Thomas D Maxwell S Guards
Pte Thomas Melvin RSF
Sgt John B McKnight
Sgt Robert E Scott RAF
Sgt George Wallace S Guards

Total 101

spoons · Posted: Sat Aug 14, 2010 9:32 am Post subject:

Robert, John and David Crinean were brothers.

Name: CRINEAN, ROBERT
Initials: R
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Seaforth Highlanders
Unit Text: 1st Bn.
Age: 30
Date of Death: 20/04/1916
Service No: S/4239
Additional information: Son of Robert and Janet Crinean, of 8, Riverside Terrace, Kirkconnel, Dumfriesshire.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 37 and 64.
Memorial: BASRA MEMORIAL

Name: CRINEAN
Initials: J
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: King's Own Scottish Borderers
Unit Text: 5th Bn.
Age: 27
Date of Death: 20/06/1915
Service No: 1617
Additional information: Son of Robert and Janet Crinean, of Kirkconnel, Dumfriesshire.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: C. 54.
Cemetery: LANCASHIRE LANDING CEMETERY

Name: CRINEAN, DAVID LAIDLAW
Initials: D L
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
Unit Text: 14th Bn.
Age: 19
Date of Death: 08/09/1918
Service No: S/24439
Additional information: Son of Robert and Janet Crinean, of 8, Riverside Terrace, Kirkconnel, Sanquhar, Dumfriesshire.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: II. H. 9.
Cemetery: HAGLE DUMP CEMETERY

DelBoy · Posted: Sun Apr 08, 2012 3:12 pm Post subject: Re: Kirkconnel

DelBoy · Posted: Sun Apr 08, 2012 3:56 pm Post subject: Pte. William Taylor

Adam Brown · Posted: Sun Apr 08, 2012 10:41 pm Post subject: Re: Kirkconnel

DelBoy · Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2012 1:47 am Post subject: memorial plans

A bit more on the memorial, expected cost was £550.

Derek.

spoons · Posted: Sun Jan 06, 2013 7:45 pm Post subject:

this memorial was vandalised in November 2011 and cleaned and restored immediately after. A man goes on trial this week.

spoons · Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2013 4:23 pm Post subject:

The accused was cleared by a not proven verdict.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-21090062

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