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PostPosted: Thu Feb 11, 2010 8:59 pm    Post subject: East Kilbride West Kirk Reply with quote

East Kilbride West Kirk Parish Church, 44 Kittoch Street, East Kilbride, G74 4JW


UKNIWM: Not Listed
OS Grid Ref. NS 634546

The church is situated opposite the railway station.





There are two memorial brass plaques mounted on the front of the pulpit.





The left hand plaque is inscribed as follows:
1914 – 1919
WAR MEMORIAL ORGAN
ERECTED TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND
IN LOVING MEMORY OF THE
MEMBERS OF THIS CHURCH
WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR

Charles Allan Jnr.
Hugh Barr
James C. Bonnar
William M. Bonnar
Andrew Bryson
Fred T. Douglas
Andrew Hamilton
Thomas Hocknull
William Kerr
Matthew Park
Thomas Shearer
A. Henderson Thom
Hugh B. Thom
David Waddell

“THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE”
The plaque was originally mounted on the new organ which was installed circa 1920.
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 11, 2010 9:06 pm    Post subject: East Kilbride West Kirk Reply with quote



The right hand plaque is inscribed as follows:

1939 – 1945
WAR MEMORIAL ERECTED TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND
IN LOVING MEMORY OF THE MEMBERS AND ADHERENTS OF THIS CHURCH
WHO FELL IN THE SECOND GREAT WAR

Robert Barr
Matthew S. L. Barr
James Boyd
Arthur George
Hugh D. McColl
James McIlveen
David Peacock
Frederick Ramsay
John S. Wilson
John Young

“THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE”
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 11, 2010 9:12 pm    Post subject: East Kilbride West Kirk Reply with quote

Towards the end of 1919 a ROLL OF HONOUR was compiled, framed and hung in the corridor of the church. The West United Free Church was the forerunner of the West Kirk.





Names marked * thus on the Roll of Honour made the Supreme Sacrifice.
Those names are the same as those on the 1914 - 1919 war memorial.

Many thanks to Mrs. Edith Glendinning, Elder of the church, for allowing me access to the West Kirk and for showing me round the church.

John Houston
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 05, 2015 6:58 am    Post subject: Thomas Hocknull Reply with quote

Thomas Hocknull Pte 9300 1st Gordon Highlanders b Barony,Lanarkshire e Glasgow Killed in Action F & F 14/12/1914 (Wytschaete) Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres M. R. 29 Panel 38 East Kilbride & East Kilbride West Kirk
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Thomas Hocknull Pte 9300 1st Gordon Highlanders b Barony,Lanarkshire 01/04/1886 e Glasgow Age 28 Killed in Action F & F 14/12/1914 (Wytschaete). Son of William Hocknull & Lilias Cleland. 1901 Census: 320 Baltic St; Occ: Apprentice (Curtain Factory). Age 15. Short Service 3 Pages. Occ: Labourer. Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres M. R. 29 Panel 38 East Kilbride & East Kilbride West Kirk
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