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jrah60 · Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2010 3:22 pm Post subject: Royal Troon Golf Club, WW1

Royal Troon Golf Club, Troon, Ayrshire KA10 6EP

OS Grid Ref: NS 328297

Photo Courtesy of Royal Troon Golf Club.

Troon Golf Club was formed on the 16th March 1878, at a Meeting of enthusiasts, in the Portland Arms Hotel in Troon. The first Captain appointed was James Dickie who held office for four years. Dr John Highet held the office of Honorary Secretary from 1878 until 1893.
The Club's first Honorary President was His Grace William John Arthur Charles James, The 6th Duke of Portland K.G., P.C., G.C.V.O. By 1880 the Club had six holes, and by 1888 these had been extended to eighteen holes measuring 3 miles, 1 furlong and 156 yards.
George Strath was the first Professional to the Club and to date only five other Professionals have held the position. He was substantially involved in the design of the 12 and 18 hole Courses prior to leaving in 1887. www.royaltroon.co.uk

The Royal Troon Golf Club Motto is TAM ARTE QUAM MARTE – As much by skill as by strength.

IN MEMORY OF THE MEMBERS OF TROON GOLF CLUB
WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR KING AND COUNTRY 1914 – 1919

Balfour Abercrombie, Private, Black Watch
James Ranald Beckett, 2nd Lieut. Highland Light Infantry
Alexander James Begg M.C., Lieut. Highland Light Infantry
Norman Annandale Black, Captain. Royal Field Artillery
George Valance McKinlay Boyd, Captain. Highland Light Infantry
William Burrell Junr., Lieut. Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve
James Wilson Burton, Captain. Royal Army Medical Corps
John Carrick, Lieutenant. Cameron Highlanders
Jasper Clark, Lieutenant. Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders
John Oswald Farquhar, Lieut. Glasgow Yeomanry
John Alexander Findlay D.S.O., Major. Highland Light Infantry
James Bell Foulis, Captain. Cameron Highlanders
James Woodhall Forrest, 2nd Lieut., Scottish Rifles
John Gardner M.C., Captain. Royal Scots Fusiliers
Robert Yates Guthrie, Private. Highland Light Infantry
Hugo Fraser Henderson, Sergeant. Royal Irish Rifles
Matthew Hodgart M.C. Major. Royal Engineers
Donald Fisher Jackson, Lieut., Hussars
Patrick Graham Jenkins, 2nd Lieut. Cameron Highlanders
Alan Drummond Law, Lieutenant. Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders
Robert Mathers Mann V.D. Major. Scottish Rifles
James Fyfe Morrison, Captain. Highland Light Infantry
George Morton, Captain. Highland Light Infantry
Andrew Currie Murray, Captain. H.L.I. (Glasgow Highlanders)
Hew McGowan, Lieutenant. Scottish Rifles
John Macdonald, Captain. Highland Light Infantry
Roderick George Macdonald, Captain. Army Service Corps
George Lammie McEwan, Captain. Highland Light Infantry
Robert Speeden Macfarlane, 2nd Lieut. Highland Light Infantry
James Gregor MacGregor, Lieut. Royal Field Artillery
Hector William McJannet, Captain. Royal Field Artillery
Robert Wallace MacKinlay M.C. Captain. Royal Engineers
George Douglas MacLellan, Lieut. Highland Light Infantry
William Ross, 2nd Lieutenant. H.L.I. (Glasgow Highlanders)
Percy George Symington, Lieut. Highland Light Infantry
Charles Randolph Smith, 2nd Lieut. Royal Garrison Artillery
James Osbourne Smith, Lieut. Scottish Rifles
Eric Travis Townsend, Captain. Highland Light Infantry
Ronald Travis Townsend, Captain. Highland Light Infantry
Herbert James Weir, Lieutenant. Ayrshire Yeomanry
James Stewart Wyper, Lieut. King’s Own Scottish Borderers

DelBoy · Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2013 3:19 am Post subject: Unveiling report

unveiled 12th of march 1921

Derek.

A Beattie · Posted: Thu Feb 04, 2016 9:54 am Post subject: Re: Royal Troon Golf Club, WW1

stuartn · Joined: 13 Dec 2016 Posts: 2551

This is now WMR, ex UKNIWM, memorial 72891

Mike Morley · Posted: Sun Nov 22, 2020 7:46 pm Post subject:

Name: CLARK, JASPER
Initials: J
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Lieutenat
Regiment/Service: Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, 6th Bn
Date of Death: 2/10/1918
Age: 34
Additional Information: Husband of Emily C. Clark, of Summerfield, Parbold, Lancs.
Grave Reference: B 1
Cemetery: Joncourt British Cemetery.

Also named on Glasgow High School and Glasgow Academy War Memorials.

Mike Morley · Posted: Wed Nov 25, 2020 7:40 pm Post subject:

Name: FOULIS, JAMES BELL
Initials: JB
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Captain
Regiment/Service: Cameron Highlanders, 5th Bn
Date of Death: 18/10/1916
Panel Reference: Pier and Face 15B
Memorial: Thiepval Memorial.

Also named on Glasgow Academy War Memorial and in the University of Glasgow Memorial Chapel.

A short biographical note about Captain Foulis can be found on the University of Glasgow Roll of Honour: https://www.universitystory.gla.ac.uk/ww1-biography/?id=809

Mike Morley · Posted: Thu Dec 03, 2020 1:59 pm Post subject:

Name: MCEWAN, GEORGE LAMMIE
Initials: GL
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Lieutenant
Regiment/Service: Highland Light Infantry, 6th Bn
Date of Death: 21/7/1915
Panel Reference: Panel 174 to 178
Memorial: Helles Memorial.

Also named on Glasgow Academy War Memorial.

Mike Morley · Posted: Thu Dec 03, 2020 2:01 pm Post subject:

Name: MACFARLANE, ROBERT SPEEDON
Initials: RS
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Second Lieutenant
Regiment/Service: Highland Light Infantry, 15th Bn
Date of Death: 3/7/1916
Age: 30
Additional Information: Son of William and Agnes I. Macfarlane, of Edgewen, Burnside, Rutherglen, Glasgow.
Grave Reference: XVI K 2
Cemetery: Serre Road Cemetery No 2.

Also named on Rutherglen and Rutherglen Old Parish Church War Memorials.

Mike Morley · Posted: Thu Dec 10, 2020 2:01 pm Post subject:

Name: MURRAY, ANDREW CURRIE
Initials: AC
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Captain
Regiment/Service: Highland Light Infantry, 9th (Glasgow Hdrs) Bn
Date of Death: 20/5/1917
Age: 24
Additional Information: Son of Mr. and Mrs. D. Murray, of Glasgow.
Panel Reference: Bay 8
Memorial: Arras Memorial.

Also named on Glasgow Academy War Memorial.

Mike Morley · Posted: Sat Dec 26, 2020 3:37 pm Post subject:

Name: BECKETT, JAMES RANALD
Initials: JR
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Second Lieutenant
Regiment/Service: Highland Light Infantry, 17th Bn, "A" Coy
Date of Death: 4/7/1916
Age: 31
Additional Information: Son of Hugh and Margaret Russell Beckett. Born at Ardrossan, Ayrshire.
Grave Reference: I A 30
Cemetery: Puchevillers British Cemetery.

Also named on Kelvinside Academy and Ardrossan War Memorials.

Note: CWGC names him as James Ronald Beckett. I have contacted them to consider correction.

Mike Morley · Posted: Mon Dec 28, 2020 3:37 pm Post subject:

Name: FARQUHAR, JOHN OSWALD
Initials: JO
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Lieutenant
Regiment/Service: Glasgow Yeomanry (Queen's Own Royal), attd. 10th Bn. Essex Regiment
Date of Death: 23/3/1918
Age: 21
Additional Information: Son of Mr. W. R. and Mrs. B. H. Farquhar, of Mossyde, Kilmacolm, Renfrewshire.
Panel Reference: Panel 7
Memorial: Pozieres Memorial.

Also named on Kelvinside Academy and Kilmacolm War Memorials.

Mike Morley · Posted: Thu Dec 31, 2020 3:09 pm Post subject:

Name: JACKSON, DONALD FISHER
Initials: DF
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Lieutenant
Regiment/Service: 20th Hussars
Awards: Twice Mentioned in Despatches
Date of Death: 11/10/1918
Age: 32
Additional Information: Son of William and Tomina D. Jackson, of "Warrix," Troon, Ayrshire.
Grave Reference: III C 6
Cemetery: Busigny Communal Cemetery Extension.

Also named on memorials at Troon, Troon Old Parish Church, Kelvinside Academy and Inverary.

Mike Morley · Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2021 3:23 pm Post subject:

Name: LAW, ALAN DRUMMOND
Initials: AD
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Lieutenant
Regiment/Service: Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, 4th Bn attd 10th Bn
Date of Death: 03/05/1917
Age: 20
Additional Information: Son of William Law, of 29, Montgomerie Drive, Glasgow.
Panel Reference: Bay 9
Memorial: Arras Memorial.

Also named on Kelvinside Academy War Memorial.

Mike Morley · Posted: Tue Jan 12, 2021 7:20 pm Post subject:

Name: SMITH, CHARLES RANDOLPH
Initials: C R
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Second Lieutenant
Regiment/Service: Royal Garrison Artillery, 244th Bty.
Age: 19
Date of Death: 22/04/1917
Additional information: Son of Charles Randolph Smith and Julia Randolph Smith, of Robinsfield, Milngavie, Stirlingshire.
Grave/Memorial Reference: VI. O. 5.
Cemetery: Bucquoy Road Cemetery, Ficheux.

Also named on Baldernock, Loretto School and Kelvinside Academy War Memorials.

Mike Morley · Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2021 12:08 pm Post subject:

Name: ABERCROMBIE, JOHN BALFOUR SYMINGTON
Initials: JBS
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Service Number: 5532
Regiment/Service: Black Watch (Royal Highlanders), 1st/7th Bn
Date of Death: 31/7/1916
Age: 37
Additional Information: Son of Mr. and Mrs. William Abercrombie, of Paisley.
Grave Reference: II J 5
Cemetery: Dantzig Alley Britsi Cemetery, Mametz

Also named on Paisley Grammar School Memorial, and the Paisley Middle Church Memorial, also on the Glasgow School of Art Roll of Honour.

JBS Abercrombie was an architect before the war. A brief biography can be found on the Directory of Scottish Architects website: http://www.scottisharchitects.org.uk/architect_full.php?id=200000