The Scottish Military Research Group - Commemorations Project

anne park · Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2016 6:17 am Post subject: Cameron Ross Gribben GH

Cameron Ross Gribben Pte 310003 7th Gordon Highlanders b Paisley e Paisley Age 20 Killed in Action F&F 23/04/1917 1901 Census: With mother:6 Glebe Street, Inverness. B 1897. Soldiers Effects: Mo Helen S. Bro: Grant R. Brown's Copse Cemetery, Rouex Fr 0604 Plot III Row C Grave 09 AJ 26-06-17 P4: Paisley The Scotsman 26-06-17 P7: Paisley
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anne park · Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2016 6:21 pm Post subject: George Murray Tinto GH

George Murray Tinto Serjeant 6584 2nd Bn. Gordon Highlanders b Barony e Cydebank Age 37 Killed in Action West-Vlaanderen, Belgium 04/10/1917 Son of Peter and Annie Tinto; husband of Janet Tinto, of 19, Walker St., Paisley. Tyne Cot Memorial M. R. 30 Panel 135 to 136 The Scotsman 13-11-17 P8: Paisley
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anne park

William George Ironside L/cpl 9889 1st Scots Guards b Aberdeenshire e Paisley, Renfrew. Age 26 Killed in Action F & F 25/01/1915 Son of Francis Peter Ironside & Elizabeth Porter. B Keig. 1891 Census: Brindy Cot House, Keig. Fa Occ: Farm Servant. 1901 Census: West Ballochy, Logie Pert. Husband of Mrs Ironside, 3 Woodside Pl; Paisley. Soldiers Effects: Wid: Margaret. Margaret Catto Cowie Robertson. Occ: Policeman in Paisley. Cabaret-Rouge British Cemetery, Souchez Fr 0924 Plot XII Row F Grave 22 Daily Record 06-03-15: P3: Missing. 13-02-15 P3 The Scotsman 13-02-15 P12: Paisley
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anne park · Posted: Tue May 09, 2017 7:55 am Post subject: John Buchanan GH

John Buchanan Private S/21806 4th Bn. Gordon Highlanders b Paisley e Stirling Age 19 Killed in Action Aisne, France 25/07/1918 Son of John and Annie P (nee McAusland) Buchanan,60 Storie St.Paisley,Renfrewshire. 1901 Census: Soldiers Effects: Mo: Annie P McA. Soldiers Will 4 pages. Soissons Memorial M. R. 18 The Scotsman 31-08-18 P5: Paisley
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Kenneth Morrison · Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2021 4:17 pm Post subject:

I don't think this has been posted before......

Paisley's Fallen in the War 1914-18
revised and updated
James Meikle Smith

https://libcat.renfrewshire.gov.uk/iguana/uploads/file/Paisley%27s%20Fallen%20in%20the%20War%201914%20-%201918%2C%20revised%20and%20updated%20-%20Iguauna%20version%202%20-%20Copy.pdf
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Ken

Kenneth Morrison · Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2021 4:25 pm Post subject:

Named on the Duns Burgh and Parish War Memorial in Berwickshire as:

PRIVATE J. DARLING
Jacob Darling – age 28 – Private (7601) 1/4th (Border) Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers.
Jacob served his apprenticeship as a law clerk in Duns before he joined the Scottish Co-operative Wholesale Society. He spent four years at their factory in Leith and then moved to the Dress Shirt factory at Potterhill in Paisley from where he enlisted in December 1914. He landed with his battalion at Gallipoli in June 1915 but he was killed a month later during the battle at Achi Baba Nullah.
Born 1888 in Duns. Son of the late William Darling (died 1898) and of Agnes Allan Bookless (Paxton) Darling of the Cross Keys Hotel, Duns. Husband of Jeannie Miller (Watson) of 2 Alice Street, Paisley and of 63 Lorne Street, Leith who he married in 1910 in Swinton, Berwickshire.
Missing in Action on 12 July 1915 and named on the Helles Memorial, Gallipoli, Turkey.
Also named on the SCWS Roll of Honour.
Jeannie's brother George Watson, Private (200269) 1/4th KOSB was killed at Gaza on 19 April 1917 and is named on the Swinton Parish War Memorial.
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Ken