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jrah60 Administrator
Joined: 04 Dec 2009 Posts: 1915 Location: East Kilbride
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Posted: Sun Apr 28, 2013 5:22 pm Post subject: Thomas Coats Memorial Baptist Church WW1 |
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Thomas Coats Memorial Baptist Church, High Street, Paisley PA1 2BA
OS Grid Ref: - NS 478639
Built as a memorial to Thomas Coats of the Paisley thread family, the beauty of the building speaks its own silent message. Cathedral-like with a crown steeple and given extra prominence by a wide and high flight of steps to the main door. Designed by Hippolyte Blanc (Scottish despite his French name) in Gothic style, cruciform in shape and with flying buttresses along the nave. Opened in May 1894, the church can seat 1,000 people. Beautiful interior, by far the grandest of the Paisley churches with its vaulted roof, mosaics, stencilled decoration, carved marble and alabaster. The attention to detail throughout the building is astonishing and the quality of craftsmanship astounding. Famous Hill 4-manual pipe organ with 3,040 pipes. |
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jrah60 Administrator
Joined: 04 Dec 2009 Posts: 1915 Location: East Kilbride
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Posted: Sun Apr 28, 2013 5:25 pm Post subject: |
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Many thanks to James Meikle Smith for the photograph.
TO THE GLORY OF GOD
AND IN LOVING MEMORY OF THE SONS
OF THE CHURCH WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES
IN THE GREAT WAR 1914 – 1919
Private Godfrey D. Adams
Bombardier David Adamson
Private James Anderson
Private Robert Anderson
Private David Barr
Captain George Blett Barr M.B. Ch.B.
Captain Hugh Barr M.D.
Private John Bryson
Sergeant Robert R. Fulton
Private Allan Granger
Sapper William Hamilton
Private James F. Livingston
Lieutenant Robert S. Millar
Private Nathaniel I. Muir
Piper John McAlister
Lieutenant George McCallum M.B. Ch.B.
Private David McCulloch
Private John Macdonald
Corporal James W. McDowall
Private Robert S. Shearer
Corporal James Shiells
Private John Speirs
Private William Stevenson
Captain Charles Thomson MC
THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE
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Mike Morley
Joined: 17 Apr 2013 Posts: 8667 Location: Roberton, Lanarkshire
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Posted: Wed Sep 02, 2020 6:39 pm Post subject: |
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Name: BARR, H
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Captain
Regiment/Service: Royal Army Medical Corps
Date of Death: 21/2/1917
Age: 35
Additional Information: Son of Hugh and Annie Dodds Barr. of Paisley.
Grave Reference: O.30
Cemetery: Salonika (Lembet Road) Military Cemetery.
Also named in the University of Glasgow Memorial Chapel and on Paisley Grammar School War Memorial. |
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Kenneth Morrison
Joined: 29 Sep 2008 Posts: 7749 Location: Rockcliffe Dalbeattie
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Posted: Wed Sep 02, 2020 6:50 pm Post subject: |
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Is this the other "Barr"?
CAPTAIN
GEORGE FLEET BARR
Regiment & Unit/Ship
Royal Army Medical Corps
42nd Field Amb.
Date of Death
Died 23 March 1916
Age 24 years old
Buried or commemorated at
FAUBOURG D'AMIENS CEMETERY, ARRAS France
Additional Info
Son of Mrs. Barr and the late James Barr, of Paisley.
Note : Middle name was FLETT - See https://universitystory.gla.ac.uk/ww1-biography/?id=1868 _________________ Ken |
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Mike Morley
Joined: 17 Apr 2013 Posts: 8667 Location: Roberton, Lanarkshire
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Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2020 8:31 am Post subject: |
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Ken, I should imagine it's highly probable. Surely the two Captain Barr's were related in some way? |
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Mike Morley
Joined: 17 Apr 2013 Posts: 8667 Location: Roberton, Lanarkshire
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Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2020 1:55 pm Post subject: |
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Name: LIVINGSTON, JAMES FULTON
Initials: JF
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Service Number: 14368
Regiment/Service: Highland Light Infantry, 16th Bn, "D" Coy
Date of Death: 18/11/1916
Age: 21
Additional Information: Son of Mr. and Mrs. James Livingston, of 18, Gleniffer Terrace, Paisley.
Grave Reference: A 34
Cemetery: Frankfurt Trench British Cemetery, Beaumont-Hamel.
Also named on Paisley Grammar School Memorial. |
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