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Trinity College, University of Glasgow, University Avenue, Glasgow G12 8QQ



Trinity College, Glasgow, Scotland, is the Church of Scotland's College at the University of Glasgow. It provides special supervision of candidates for the ministry through a Principal (appointed by the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland) and a College Council. The College is the official channel of liaison between the University of Glasgow, the Church of Scotland, and the United Free Church of Scotland.
The Glasgow College, funded by local subscription, was established in 1856. It was a multi-disciplinary institution of considerable reputation, existing outside the University of Glasgow's Faculty of Divinity. In 1872 Thomas Martin Lindsay was appointed Professor of church history, and he became principal of the college in 1902.
Later, in 1930, following the reunion of the churches and theological teaching facilities, the Glasgow Church College was renamed "Trinity College". After the reunion of the main Scottish Presbyterian churches in 1929–30, the two teaching facilities in the University and the Church College were reintegrated. After 1976, when the Church-owned Trinity College buildings at Park Circus were finally vacated, all teaching of theology took place in the university Divinity Faculty. Accordingly, while Trinity College still exists, it is a body without walls.
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J.M. Garlick
William Black
W.N. Monteith
W.B. Macfarlane
R.H. Napier
James Mackie
Herbert Dunn
F.W. Stuart Teggart

GARLICK, JOHN MUNRO
Rank: Lieutenant
Date of Death: 02/12/1917
Age: 27
Regiment/Service: Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders 4th Bn.
Grave Reference: VI. E. 17.
Cemetery: ROCQUIGNY-EQUANCOURT ROAD BRITISH CEMETERY, MANANCOURT
Additional Information: Son of William and Annie Munro Garlick; husband of Agnes Miller Wilson Garlick, of St. Margaret's, Tillicoultry, Clackmannanshire. B.D. Glasgow University.

John Munro Garlick graduated from the University of Glasgow on the 16th of November 1912 with an MA and attained a BD in 1915. During his time at University John studied a variety of subjects including Latin, Greek, Logic, Moral Philosophy and Mathematics. John also received numerous prizes including a First Class certificate of Merit in Logic and Metaphysics.
Born on the 8th of February 1890 in Edinburgh, John was the son of William and Annie Munro Garlick.
During WWI, John was a lieutenant in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. John died on the 2nd of December 1917. He is remembered on the family grave in Tillicoultry Cemetery, Clackmannanshire, and is buried at Rocquigny-Equancourt Road, British Cemetery, Manancourt.
John Munro Garlick’s son, also named John Munro Garlick, died in WWII, also on the 2nd of December, in 1943. He was a pilot in the Royal Air Force.

Chaplain William Duncan Thomson Black Cameron Highlanders

BLACK, The Rev. WILLIAM DUNCAN T
Rank: Chaplain 4th Class
Date of Death: 22/08/1917
Age: 36
Regiment/Service: Army Chaplains' Department
Grave Reference: II. A. 18.
Cemetery: BRANDHOEK NEW MILITARY CEMETERY NO.3
Additional Information: Husband of Jenny L. Black, of 10, Leven St., Pollokshields, Glasgow.

MONTEITH, WILLIAM NEVE
Rank: Lieutenant
Date of Death: 25/09/1915
Regiment/Service: Rifle Brigade 6th Bn. attd. 2nd Bn.
Panel Reference: Panel 10.
Memorial: PLOEGSTEERT MEMORIAL
Additional Information:

William Neve Monteith was the second son of Reverend John Monteith and his wife Ellen Maria Neve. He was born at Glencairn in Dumfriesshire on 22nd August 1878. He was educated at Cargillfield, Magdalen College Oxford and the University of Glasgow. All three brothers, John, William and Hugh were academically well endowed. William took a BA at Oxford before studying theology at Glasgow, where he first matriculated in the autumn of 1901. He did very well.
In his first year he took fourth places in three of his classes - Divinity, Junior Hebrew and Church History. In his second year he gained merits in Divinity and Biblical Criticism and Hebrew, as well as a special prize for Hebrew recitation. In his final year, he excelled again, placed third in Divinity and Biblical Criticism, seventh in Church History and gained a merit for his efforts in the Syriac class. He graduated BD in April 1904, with the Jamieson Prize, worth GBP 10, for excellence in examinations for the degree.
After graduation he served as Assistant to the Reverend Dr Playfair of St Andrews before getting his own parish in Elie in 1907. He married Muriel May on 30th March 1915. By then he was a soldier. In early September 1914 the St Andrews Presbytery granted him leave of absence for the duration of the war. He was one of the first ministers to enlist as a combatant.
He signed up first as a trooper for the Fife and Forfar Yeomanry but obtained a commission as a Lieutenant in the Rifle Brigade on 22nd January 1915. Initially serving in the 6th (Reserve) battalion, he was transferred to the 2nd (Regular) after that battalion suffered heavy losses at Fromelles on the Aubers Ridge. He arrived in France at the end of May, 1915. He was a gallant soldier and was Mentioned in Despatches (MID) posthumously by General Douglas Haig.
Lieutenant Monteith was killed in action near Loos on 25th September 1915. His family came to know great sacrifice. His brother John was killed in action at Loos just a few days later, on 1st October. Another brother, Hugh served with the RAMC and gained the Distinguished Service Order (DSO).
Muriel Monteith gave birth to a son on 31st December, three months after his father's death. He was named William Neve Monteith and grew up to carry his father's name in a distinguished career. Like his father he was a graduate of Magdalen College. He served as Consul-General in Oman from October 1958 to May 1960 and also became the Reverend Monteith. He died in 2004; the best part of a century after the father who never knew him and who is remembered at the Ploegsteert Memorial in Belgium.

2nd Lieutenant William Barr (Reverend) Macfarlane MA KOSB 20/07/1915

MACFARLANE, WILLIAM BARR
Rank: Second Lieutenant
Date of Death: 20/07/1915
Age: 27
Regiment/Service: King's Own Scottish Borderers 5th Bn.
Panel Reference: Panel 84 to 92 or 220 to 222.
Memorial: HELLES MEMORIAL
Additional Information: Son of James and Agnes Macfarlane, of 1, Douglas Gardens, Uddingston, Lanarkshire. Assistant Minister, Church of Scotland. Volunteered 4th Aug., 1914.



NAPIER, ROBERT HELLIER
Rank: Lieutenant
Date of Death: 12/02/1918
Age: 33
Regiment/Service: Nyasaland Field Force attd. 4th Bn 1st King's African Rifles
Panel Reference:
Memorial: DAR ES SALAAM BRITISH AND INDIAN MEMORIAL
Additional Information:

Obituary from the Hillhead High School War Memorial Volume:
"Robert Hellier Napier was born at Yoker on 12th August 1884. He entered Hillhead High School in 1898, going two years later to Morrison's Academy Crieff, where he became Dux of School in 1901. He always spoke with great affection of his life at Hillhead High School. At the University he fulfilled all the promise of his school days and proved to be a brilliant and distinguished student.
Having graduated with 2nd Class Honours in Classics in 1905 he entered Divinity Hall of the Church of Scotland, gaining there many prizes and other distinctions, including the Caird Prize in Divinity two years consecutively, a prize in Church History, second prize in Divinity and Biblical Criticism, and a prize in Hebrew and Semitic Languages. At the close of his Divinity course he gained the BD degree, and the Black Fellowship as the first student of his year.
During his college career his energies were spread over a wide field; he was an enthusiastic volunteer and played a prominent part in the Union debates; he was President of the Christian Union, and his popularity with his fellows was evidenced by his election as President of the Student Representative Council (SRC).
At the close of a short period of service with Dr Menzies Fergusson Logie, he was ordained in 1909 as a missionary of the Church of Scotland, and sailed for Nyasaland. In the mission field he found his true vocation. In addition to his regular work as missionary in Blantyre and Zomba, he shared in the translation of the Bible into the native language, and had the privilege of training the first native missionaries.
On the outbreak of war he took part in the defence of Nyasaland, doing valuable service in charge of the native transport lines; later he served with the native transport in German East Africa. His great linguistic attainments enabled him to take the post of Intelligence Officer to the British Force, and it was while attached as Lieutenant to the 4/1st King's Africa Rifles that he fell in Portuguese Africa on the 11th February 1918. Fearless and zealous in the cause of others he had gone forward to reconnoitre the enemy's lines, when he fell mortally wounded. Robert Napier's loss can never be rightly estimated. His memory lives and inspires."

Private James Mackie MA BD Scottish Horse Field Ambulance

MACKIE, J
Rank: Private
Service No: 311061
Date of Death: 17/04/1917
Age: 27
Regiment/Service: Royal Army Medical Corps Scottish Horse Mounted Bde. Field Amb attd. Royal Scots Fusiliers
Grave Reference: VII. G. II.
Cemetery: GAZA WAR CEMETERY
Additional Information: Son of Thomas and Maggie Mackie, of 13, Leslie St., Pollokshields, Glasgow.

2nd Lieutenant Herbert Dunn BD 8th Cameronians (SR)

DUNN, HERBERT
Rank: Second Lieutenant
Date of Death: 25/10/1915
Regiment/Service: Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) 8th Bn.
Grave Reference: Q. 535.
Cemetery: ALEXANDRIA (CHATBY) MILITARY AND WAR MEMORIAL CEMETERY
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TEGGART, FRANCIS WILLIAM STUART
Rank: Lieutenant
Date of Death: 26/10/1917
Age: 27
Regiment/Service: Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders attd. Gordon Highlanders
Grave Reference: I. H. 21.
Cemetery: PERTH CEMETERY (CHINA WALL)
Additional Information: Son of Hamilton and Rachel Cameron Teggart, of Baliscate, Tobermory, Argyllshire. His twin brother Capt. John Cameron Thomson Teggart also fell.

John and Francis Teggart were twin brothers, born on 14th June 1890 to Mr and Mrs Hamilton Teggart, then of Hillhead, Glasgow. The boys were educated at the High School and later went up to the University of Glasgow together in 1907, Francis to the Arts Faculty, and John to the Faculty of Medicine. By that time their father, Hamilton, was a Supervisor of Inland Revenue and the family lived at Baliscate, Tobermory. Away from home, the brothers shared accommodation in Glasgow at 49 Arlington Street, Woodlands.
Francis had been a gifted student at school and had shown considerable literary talents as a contributor to the school magazine. In his first year at university first year, he studied Latin and German. After a successful undergraduate career he graduated Master of Arts with Honours in 1911. Thereafter he entered the Divinity Hall of the United Presbyterian Church and had almost completed his theological course when war broke out.
The brothers enlisted in the army. Francis served as a Lieutenant in the 14th Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders and acted for some time as a recruiting officer to the 14th and 15th Battalions. Attached to a Regiment of the Gordons, he was in command of the leading company of the Highland Brigade in the advance on Passchendaele on 26th October 1917 and was killed in action.
His brother John, who graduated MB ChB in 1912, served as a Captain in the Royal Army Medical Corps. He too was killed in action, just a few months later, on 21st July 1918. Their younger brother, Hamilton George Bryce Teggart, followed in their footsteps to the University of Glasgow in autumn 1917 to study Medicine and was, mercifully, spared their fate in war. He graduated MB ChB in 1922.
Lieutenant Francis Teggart is buried in Perth Cemetery (China Wall). The cemetery is near the town of Ieper. It was begun by French troops in November 1914 and adopted by the 2nd Scottish Rifles in June 1917. Named Perth after the Scottish town it was also called China Wall after the communication trench known as the Great Wall of China.


Additional information was taken from The University of Glasgow Story.


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J.S. Allan
J.A.M. Miller
George Macgregor
R. Wright Smith
Andrew G. Young
John M. Smith

2nd Lieutenant John Steele Allan MA 9th Royal Scots Fusiliers

ALLAN, J S
Rank: Second Lieutenant
Date of Death: 12/10/1916
Age: 36
Regiment/Service: Royal Scots Fusiliers 9th Bn. attd. 2nd Bn.
Grave Reference: VII. E. 2.
Cemetery: A.I.F. BURIAL GROUND, FLERS
Additional Information: Son of Mrs. J. Wilson, of "Bent View", Netherburn, Lanarkshire.

MILLER, JAMES ARCHIBALD MONTGOMERIE
Rank: Second Lieutenant
Date of Death: 16/04/1917
Age: 25
Regiment/Service: Northumberland Fusiliers 7th Bn.
Panel Reference: Bay 2 and 3.
Memorial: ARRAS MEMORIAL
Additional Information: Son of William and Mary Miller, of Port Bannatyne, Rothesay, Bute.

James Archibald Montgomery Miller was born on 2nd September 1891 in Port Bannatyne, Bute. By the time he began his studies at the University of Glasgow in 1909 his father, William, a commercial traveller, had died and the family had moved to Dowanhill. Before that, James was educated at Rothesay Academy, where he acquitted himself well and he went up to University in 1909 to study for an MA.
James spent the next five years making his way through his courses in the Arts Faculty and passing most of his exams: Mathematics and Latin in 1910; English and Logic in 1911; Philosophy in 1912; Higher English, Philosophy and Economics in 1913. He enrolled again for the term 1913-1914, to take classes in History, Higher Logic and Elementary Hebrew, and after passing Hebrew he was able to graduate MA on 22nd June 1914. He was by then a student of Divinity and he spent the year before he joined the Army as Assistant Minister at Larbert.
At university he had been a member of the OTC and when war began he was commissioned to the 7th Northumberland Fusiliers. He wrote to a Miss Campbell on 26th October 1915, that he was now safely lodged in a comfortable billet and ready to face the storms more cheerfully. His unit had been inspected by a General and he contrived to look as busy as possible. He would not stay safe for long. On 16th April 1917 he was killed at Arras, aged 25. His sacrifice is commemorated on Arras Memorial.



MACGREGOR, GEORGE
Rank: Second Lieutenant
Date of Death: 25/09/1915
Regiment/Service: Seaforth Highlanders 8th Bn.
Panel Reference: Panel 112 to 115.
Memorial: LOOS MEMORIAL
Additional Information:

George MacGregor, born on the 2nd July 1888, son of Simon MacGregor, hailed from the village of King Edward in Banff, in the north-east of Scotland. George studied at the University of Glasgow between 1907 and 1911, graduating M.A. in 1911.
George MacGregor served as a 2nd Lieutenant with the 8th Bn. of the Seaforth Highlanders and was killed in action on the first day of the Battle of Loos, 25th September 1915, aged 27. He is commemorated on the Loos Memorial in the Dud Corner Cemetery, just west of the village of Loos-en-Gohelle, five kilometres north-west of Lens in France.

2nd Lieutenant Robert Wright Smith MA BD 6th Highland Light Infantry 12/02/1917

SMITH, ROBERT WRIGHT
Rank: Second Lieutenant
Date of Death: 12/02/1917
Age: 26
Regiment/Service: Highland Light Infantry 6th Bn.
Grave Reference: II. G. 15.
Cemetery: AUCHONVILLERS MILITARY CEMETERY
Additional Information: Son of David and Agnes Smith, of Tollcross, Glasgow. Minister of Church of Scotland, M.A., B.D.

Lieutenant Andrew G Young (Student) Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders


YOUNG, ANDREW GARDYNE
Rank: Lieutenant
Date of Death: 13/10/1917
Age: 30
Regiment/Service: Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders 1st/6th Bn.
Grave Reference: Enclosure No.2 I. E. 6.
Cemetery: BEDFORD HOUSE CEMETERY
Additional Information: Son of the Rev. James Young and Mrs. Young, of North Manse, Paisley.

SMITH, JOHN MACDONALD
Rank: Second Lieutenant
Date of Death: 12/05/1916
Age: 24
Regiment/Service: Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) 12th Bn.
Panel Reference: Panel 57 to 59.
Memorial: LOOS MEMORIAL
Additional Information: Son of the Rev. Kenneth Smith, of The Manse, Oban, Argyllshire.

John MacDonald Smith was born on 20th May 1890 in Stornoway, where his father Kenneth, was a Minister. John planned to follow in his father’s footsteps but events were to intervene. His career began well. He matriculated in the Faculty of Arts in the autumn of 1909 to study Latin and Geology, and he found a place to live during term time in the Students residence at 11 Wilson Street, Hillhead.
At the end of his first year, he passed his exams and gained a merit certificate in Geology. The following year he took Greek, Logic and English, and went on to take Moral Philosophy and Higher English in third year, History, Economics and Philosophy in his final year. It was very much the kind of curriculum that bridged Arts and Divinity, and he graduated MA on 22nd November 1913.
To date, his path was almost identical to his classmate, James Archibald Montgomery Miller. There was also a Rothesay connection. At this time the Smith family residence was at Clan Villa, Rothesay and the families may well have known each other before University or at school.
In addition to meeting in a number of classes, they were both members of the OTC and both became students of Divinity. Both enlisted in fighting units and both were sent to the Western Front.
Sadly, the parallel went further. 2nd Lieutenant Smith was also killed in action. He died on 12th May 1916 at Loos, also aged 25, though just a few days short of his twenty-sixth birthday. When the news came, his father was a Minister at Oban.


Additional information taken from The University of Glasgow Story.


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C. Gordon Macdonald
J.E.H. Macildowie
David Forsyth
F.W. Saunders
Ian McKinnon
Dugald McArthur
Robert Stevenson
Neil Leitch

MacDONALD, CHARLES GORDON
Rank: Second Lieutenant
Date of Death: 15/06/1915
Age: 26
Regiment/Service: Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) 6th Bn.
Panel Reference: Panel 15 and 16.
Memorial: LE TOURET MEMORIAL
Additional Information: Son of Johanna Margaret Macdonald, of Chapelton Terrace, Bearsden, Glasgow, and the late Edward Ellice Macdonald.

The death in action of Lieutenant Charles Gordon Macdonald, following so soon after the tragic death by drowning of his father, our late headmaster, has deeply moved the school. Lieutenant Macdonald was a brilliant pupil, but not on conventional lines.
Born on 7th March 1889, he was marked from early years by the original and independent bent of his mind and by his abhorrence of well-worn grooves. At the University he showed the same independence, and shocked his professors and fellow-students by sitting for honours in English in the third year, a venture that usually spells disaster. Not so in his case, however, as he came out a brilliant first.
The Church, with its old traditions and new opportunities had an irresistible attraction for his mystic and spiritual temperament.
After a brilliant course in the Theological Hall he was appointed in May 1914, as assistant in Hamilton Parish. He was one of the first ministers in the Church to place himself unreservedly in the hands of the military authorities. After a lengthy training in this country, at the monotony of which he sometimes rebelled, he was sent to France. At Festubert on 15th June 1915, while charging at the head of his men, he was mortally wounded. The chaplain writing home said;
"Our battalion was put in the forefront of the attack, and Lieutenant Macdonald was in the foremost company. He was very seriously wounded soon after they made the charge, and must have died almost immediately. The regiment has lost a valued officer, and I a valued friend and assistant."

2nd Lieutenant Edward John Howard (Reverend) MacIldowie MA BD Highland Light Infantry

MacILDOWIE, EDWARD JOHN HOWARD
Rank: Second Lieutenant
Date of Death: 01/11/1916
Age: 25
Regiment/Service: Highland Light Infantry 9th (Glasgow Hdrs.) Bn.
Panel Reference: Pier and Face 15 C.
Memorial: THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
Additional Information: M.A., B.D. Son of C. M. MacIldowie, and the late Rev. John MacIldowie.

2nd Lieutenant David Forsyth BD 7th Highland Light Infantry

FORSYTH, DAVID
Rank: Second Lieutenant
Date of Death: 17/06/1915
Age: 28
Regiment/Service: Highland Light Infantry 7th Bn.
Grave Reference: E. 394.
Cemetery: RUTHERGLEN CEMETERY
Additional Information: Son of William and Mary Forsyth, of Monaruadh, Lochbrae Drive, Burnside, Rutherglen.


2nd Lieutenant Frank W Saunders BD Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
SAUNDERS, FRANK WILLIAM
Rank: Second Lieutenant
Date of Death: 01/08/1918
Age: 37
Regiment/Service: Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders 8th Bn.
Grave Reference: II. A. 4.
Cemetery: OULCHY-LE-CHATEAU CHURCHYARD EXTENSION
Additional Information: Husband of Jenny C. Meiklejohn Saunders, of Anworth, Craigmore, Bute. Minister of the Parish of Anworth. M.A., B.D., of Glasgow University.


Captain Ian Mackinnon Cameron Highlanders of Canada - 43rd Battalion - C E F France

MacKINNON, IAN
Rank: Captain
Date of Death: 08/10/1916
Age: 29
Regiment/Service: Canadian Infantry 43rd Bn. attd. 9th Coy. Canadian Machine Gun Corps
Awards: Mentioned in Despatches
Panel Reference:
Memorial: VIMY MEMORIAL
Additional Information: Son of the late Capt. and Mrs. Archibald MacKinnon, of The Hall, Pinwherry, Ayrshire, Scotland.


2nd Lieutenant Dugald McArthur MA BD Black Watch

McARTHUR, D
Rank: Second Lieutenant
Date of Death: 21/04/1917
Regiment/Service: Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) 2nd Bn.
Panel Reference: Panel 25 and 63.
Memorial: BASRA MEMORIAL
Additional Information:

2nd Lieutenant Robert Stevenson BD Black Watch

STEVENSON, R
Rank: Lieutenant
Date of Death: 23/08/1917
Age: 27
Regiment/Service: Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) 7th Bn. attd. 9th Bn.
Grave Reference: I. C. 10.
Cemetery: BRANDHOEK NEW MILITARY CEMETERY NO.3
Additional Information: Eldest son of the Rev. Robert Stevenson and Margaret Fisher Stevenson. A Graduate with First Class Honours of Glasgow University, held the Black Fellowship, and was a Licentiate of the Church of Scotland. Born at Dunfermline, Scotland.

LEITCH, N
Rank: Captain
Date of Death: 20/05/1916
Regiment/Service: Highland Light Infantry 11th Bn.
Grave Reference: P. 6.
Cemetery: SAILLY-LABOURSE COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Additional Information: Nephew of Mr. A. McGibbon, of Duich Lotts, Port Ellen, Islay.

Captain Neil Leitch was born on the 31st July 1887 in Avenvogie, on the island of Islay, Argyllshire. He was the son of Neil Leitch, a shepherd, and Janet Leitch, nee McGibbon. He was educated at the University of Glasgow, graduating MA in 1908. He later studied Theology at the University of Glasgow, and was ordained on the 3rd September 1914. He was an assistant at St Columba's in Glasgow before he joined the Army and was a Captain in the Highland Light Infantry.
Captain Leitch was killed on the 20th May 1916, aged 28, and is buried in Sailly-Labourse Communal Cemetery in northern France (see his entry and headstone on www.findgrave.com. He is also remembered on his parent's headstone in the Bowmore New Parish Churchyard on the Isle of Islay, Argyllshire (see photograph on the The War Graves Photographic Project website).


Additional information taken from The University of Glasgow Story.

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