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Joined: 09 Jan 2007 Posts: 4991 Location: St John's Town of Dalry
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Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2011 8:39 pm Post subject: Stranraer - Ivy Place UF Church |
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UKNIWM Ref 57002
Location in Stranraer Town Kirk at OS Map Ref NX 064 606.
This memorial was for members of the Ivy Place United Free Church which combined with St Mark's UF Church to become St Andrew's UF Church which in turn became St Andrew's Kirk and finally on merging with Stranraer Parish Church become Stranraer Town Kirk. Throughout, this memorial has remained in its original building.
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Mike Morley
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Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2016 12:34 pm Post subject: |
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James Tully
William McCash
John McIntyre
William Paterson
William Morrison
William Martin
Alexander Thomson
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Mike Morley
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Name: MCINTYRE, JOHN
Initials: J
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Gunner
Regiment/Service: Royal Garrison Artillery, 346th Siege Battery
Age: 42
Date of Death: 15 August 1917
Service Number: 129593
Additional information: Husband of Elizabeth Geddes McIntyre, of 9, Foundry Lane, Stranraer.
Grave Reference: II. H. 34
Cemetery: Noeux-Les-Mains Communal Cemetery
Wigtownshire Free Press (31/12/2015) carried a report on papers retained by Gnr McIntryre's descendents.
Also named on Stranraer Burgh and Portpatrick War Memorials and on the family gravestone in Sheuchan Cemetery.
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Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2016 3:36 pm Post subject: |
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Name: TULLY, JAMES WITHER.
Initials: JW
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank:Private
Service Number: 12382
Regiment/Service: Scots Guards, 1st Bn
Date of Death: 27/03/1916
Age:21
Additional Information: Son of William and Agnes Jane Tully, of Colfin, Stranraer.
Grave Reference: A. 17.
Cemetery :POTIJZE CHATEAU WOOD CEMETERY
Wigtownshire Free Press (13 April 1916) carried a photograph of Private Tully: Official intimation has been received by Mr Tully, Colfin, that his youngest son, Private James Tully, Scots Guards, has been killed on 27th March by a sniper while he was relieving a guard. Private Tully joined the Scots Guards in November 1914, and after undergoing a course of training at Caterham, he proceeded to France in October last. Previous to joining the Army he was serving his apprenticship in the Union Bank, Stranraer.
Also named on Stranraer Burgh War Memorial, Portpatrick War Memorial and the family gravestone in Portpatrick Cemetery. |
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Mike Morley
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Name: MCCASH, WILLIAM HENDRY
Initials: WH
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Serjeant
Service Number: 27482
Regiment/Service: Machine Gun Corps (Infantry), 28th Coy
Date of Death: 7/5/1917
Age: 21
Additional Information: Son of A. McCash, of "Arranview", Royal Avenue, Stranraer, Wigtownshire, and the late Thomas K. McCash.
Panel Reference: Bay 10
Memorial: Arras Memorial
Also named on Stranraer Burgh War Memorial. |
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Mike Morley
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Name: PATERSON, W
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Service Number: 270334
Regiment/Service: Royal Scots, 12th Bn
Date of Death: 23/3/1918
Panel Reference: Panel 13 and 14
Memorial Pozieres Memorial
Also named on Stranraer Burgh War Memorial. |
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Mike Morley
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Mike Morley
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Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2016 10:38 am Post subject: |
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Name: MORRISON, WILLIAM
Initials: W
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Service Number: 41025
Regiment/Service: Royal Scots Fusiliers, 1st Bn
Date of Death: 26/9/1917
Age: 28
Additional Information: Son of William Morrison, of Stranraer; husband of Sara McCulloch Morrison, of Park Lane, Stranraer, Wigtownshire.
Panel Reference: Panel 60 to 61
Memorial: Tyne Cot Memorial
Wigtownshire Free Press (1/11/1917): Mrs Morrison, Park Lane, Stranraer, has received official intimation that her husband, Private William Morrison, Ayrshire Yeomanry, attached Royal Scots Fusiliers, was killed in action. Private Morrison was 28 years of age, and prior to joining the Army in May 1916, had been in the employment of Mr James Robertson sr for fourteen years. Private Morrison also acted as a church officer in Sheuchan Free Church for some time. Preaching in Sheuchan UF Church on Sunday, Rev Thomas Russell made the following reference to the late Private Morrison.
"Today our church is a house of mourning. During the week there was laid away one who was full of years. During the week there also came the sad news of one who was in the full bloom of his manhood. I think it is fitting that I should say a word or two about William Morrison, who in a sense belonged to us all. He was our church officer for a year or two before he had to go, and in that connection I am sure that there was no one who knew him who is able to bear witness ti his hearty and obliging ways. It is really not so easy to be a beadle. He has about as many duties as a Minister, and yet because his whole heart was in the church and its well-being his great concern, he had come to have a very sure corner in every heart. I feel the pain of a personal loss., and the fact that he will never be back amongst us any more. Yet I am glad that I can speak of him as I am now speaking. There was a certain diffidence about him which was very likeable. He was never self-assertive. If you spoke to him about anything, he always said, "I'll do my best", and what was more, in the whole-hearted way he did it. This was not only true of his work on the church; it was true of him also in his daily work as well. We want to understand how much there is to give up. He was not hard tempered, but timid rather, and backward amongst crowds, yet he passed through his term of preparation still doing his best. I often wondered, knowing his temperament, how he managed in the midst of the horror through which he must have lived, he had no love of fighting, he was not ashamed to say he was afraid. Yet he had the highest kind of courage, in which, though afraid, he could compel himslef to face anything. On September 26 he went over and forward with the others, going towards the east and the sunrise. He will not come back; he has enetered into that day which has no night. He was a very loyal soul - loyal to his people, loyal to his friends, loyal in his work, loyal in his church. It is difficult to say how much this place meant to him. If the church was right he was right. He was amongst those who do not use to any extent the phrases of religion, but I am quite certain his heart was in the right place. We are grieved because of his death, but he did not die unprepared. The inmost lyalty to all that was good, the faithfullness, the greatness of his sacrifice, will not be ignored in the great Assize. We are sorry for them who have loved and lost, but for Willie Morrison the fight is ended and the great and abiding peace has come. Well done, though good and faithful servant."
[The item also included Pte Morrison's photograph]
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Name: THOMSON, A
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Service Number: 42096
Regiment/Service: Highland Light Infantry, 17th Bn
Date of Death: 26/6/1917
Grave Reference: Nieuport Mil Cem Mem 1
Cemetery: Ramscapelle Road Military Cemetery
Also named on Stranraer Burgh War Memorial. |
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