The Scottish Military Research Group - Commemorations Project

apanderson · Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2014 7:17 am Post subject: Callendar House and Estate

Reproduced by kind permission of Falkirk Community Trust (Falkirk Archives).

Details from Archives:

Ref. No: A804.001
Title/Description: Calendar House & Estate Roll of Honour
Date: 1919
Collection: Family & Personal Papers Group/Forbes of Callendar Papers

apanderson · Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2014 7:21 am Post subject:

For King and Country

Roll of Honour

Callendar House and Estate

James Murdoch, Motor Machine Guns
Robert Goudie, Black Watch
Henry McPherson, Gordon Highlanders
H. F. McPherson, Army Service Corps
R. McPherson, Gordon Highlanders
William Masters, Black Watch
Alexander Hastie, Black Watch
Robert Sutherland, Scots Greys
George Young, Gordon Highlanders
George Sime, Naval Reserve
Francis Dennis, Scots Guards
James Wilson, Argyll & Sutherlands

God Save The King

DelBoy · Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2014 8:42 am Post subject:

I can't tell if this is a muster roll or casualty roll?

Kenneth Morrison · Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2014 9:19 am Post subject:

The McPherson's are a bit odd.
Father and son are on a family grave at http://scottishwargraves.phpbbweb.com/scottishwargraves-ftopic267-0-asc-75.html (page 6)
The son is
Name: McPHERSON, ROBERT
Initials: R
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)
Unit Text: 1st Bn.
Age: 22
Date of Death: 18/04/1918
Service No: 40771
Additional information: Son of Harry and Bruce McPherson, of 23, Griffiths St., Falkirk.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: X. A. 50.
Cemetery: MENDINGHEM MILITARY CEMETERY

The father is HARRY F. - late Gordon Highlanders on the gravestone.

Name: McPHERSON, HARRY F.
Initials: H. F.
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Gordon Highlanders
Unit Text: 1st Bn.
Age: 49
Date of Death: 22/11/1917
Service No: 7173
Additional information: Husband of Bruce Penman McPherson, of 23, Griffiths St., Falkirk.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: 11. 166.
Cemetery: FALKIRK CEMETERY (Camelon Cemetery now)

But the roll has HENRY McPherson - Gordons and H. F. McPherson - ASC.
Is it the same man????
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Ken

apanderson · Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2014 3:10 pm Post subject:

Pass on both questions!!

The McPhersons . . . . . I'm not even going there! I've had my fill of trying to figure out local families for a while. Laughing

Anne

anne park · Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2015 7:14 am Post subject: Ancestry has the answer...

Harry Forbes McPherson Private 7173 1st Bn. Gordon Highlanders b Towie, Aberdeenshire 05/02/1865 Age 52 Died Stirlingshire, United Kingdom 22/11/1917 Son of John McPherson & Elizabeth Gauld. Husband of Bruce Penman McPherson, of 23, Griffiths St., Falkirk. Bruce Richardson Penman. 1901 Census: Glorat House, Campsie. Occ: Estate Forrester. MI gives age as 49. Father of Robert also died 18-4-18. CAMELON CEMETERY 11. 166.
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