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apanderson Administrator
Joined: 21 Dec 2006 Posts: 2571 Location: Stirlingshire
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Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2015 5:48 pm Post subject: Hugh Kay conundrum |
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Listed in the United Collieries Roll of Honour (Ellismuir Pit, Baillieston) is:
Hugh Kay, Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders, 2nd Lieutenant, D.C.M.
Searching the DCM's (on Ancestry) I found a Sergeant, Hugh Kay, East Lancashire Regiment, No. 9774
The London Gazette, 22nd September 1916, Supplement 29760, Page 9295 confirms the above award, but no link to the Argylls.
I then found an MIC to another Hugh Kay.
This looks more like the man I am looking for as the details match more closely:
Hugh Kay, Sergeant, Argylls, No. 3519 and 201490/2nd Lieutenant, East Lancashire Regiment.
Commissioned 21st August 1918
Address: 5 Eastbank Gardens, Shettleston
But no mention on the MIC of a DCM?
The London Gazette, 11th October 1918, Supplement 3092, Page 12113 states:
"No. 201490 Serjt. Hugh Kay to be temp. 2nd Lt., for duty with Egyptian Lab. Corps, 16th July 1918."
I'm going round in circles trying to figure out if this is the same, or 2 different men.
Help!!!
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anne park Our first ever 2000 poster
Joined: 25 Sep 2007 Posts: 21200 Location: Aberdeen
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Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2015 7:11 pm Post subject: info from newspapers |
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What might be in the newpapers? _________________ Researching WWI info from Aberdeenshire, Banffshire, Kincardineshire & Morayshire. |
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apanderson Administrator
Joined: 21 Dec 2006 Posts: 2571 Location: Stirlingshire
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Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2015 7:26 pm Post subject: |
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The problem with the area I'm searching (Baillieston & district) is that it used to be part of Old Monkland Western District in Lanarkshire, then Strathclyde but has a Glasgow post-code, so trying to define what comes under what is a nightmare.
Old Monkland Western District covers a large area stretching from Tollcross in the west to 'nearly' Coatbridge in the east and all the wee villages in between.
Searching the newspapers would be a humungous task as something (if anything) could appear in either the Glasgow Evening Times, the Glasgow Herald or the Coatbridge and Airdrie Advertiser.
The area appears to be a sort of 'no man's land'!
Thanks for the suggestion though.
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Kenneth Morrison
Joined: 29 Sep 2008 Posts: 7760 Location: Rockcliffe Dalbeattie
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apanderson Administrator
Joined: 21 Dec 2006 Posts: 2571 Location: Stirlingshire
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Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2015 11:47 am Post subject: |
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Thanks for that Ken.
Maybe 'my' Hugh's citation has slipped through the net (which would seem highly unlikely) or alternatively, he didn't get it!
I've found quite a lot of discrepancies in the United Collieries Roll of Honour concerning the men who died. Their details are obviously much easier to verify and if all other sources apart from the Roll of Honour cross reference exactly, then there's not much of an option in thinking that the details on the Roll are incorrect.
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