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Mike Morley
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Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2016 8:28 pm Post subject: |
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Name: MILLER, JOHN BOYD
Initials: JB
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Driver
Service Number: 3190352
Regiment/Service: Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers
Date of Death: 11/12/1946
Age: 26
Additional Information: Son of David and Agnes Miller, of Stranraer; husband of Doris May Miller, of Romford, Essex.
Grave Reference: Sec G Class 1 Grave 9
Cemetery: Stranraer (Glebe) Cemetery
Wigtownshire Free Press (19/12/1946): At Ballochmyle Hospital on Wednesday 11th December 1946, John Boyd Miller, beloved husband of Doris Miller, and son of the late David and Mrs Miller, 41 Ashwood Drive, Stranraer.
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Mike Morley
Joined: 17 Apr 2013 Posts: 8667 Location: Roberton, Lanarkshire
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Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2016 8:28 pm Post subject: |
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Name: MUIR, JOHN ALEXANDER
Initials: JA
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Second Engineer Officer
Regiment/Service: Merchant Navy, MV Inverdargle (Glasgow)
Date of Death: 16/1/1940
Age: 45
Additional Information: Son of John and Mary Muir; husband of Margaret Muir, of Stranraer, Wigtownshire.
Panel Reference: Panel 58
Memorial: Tower Hill Memorial
Wigtownshire Free Press (24/1/1940): Stranraer suffered its first casualty in the war. John A Muir, 11 Princess Street, was among those who lost their life when the Glasgow tanker, Invergardle, was sunk in the Bristol Channel last week. Mr Mann was second engineer on the tanker. He was a native of Stranraer. For many years his father, John Muir, was gardener at Park House. Mr Muir served his apprenticeship with the Anchor-Donaldson Line. During the last war he was among those saved when the passenger steamer Mongolian was blown up in the Atlantic with the loss of 60 lives. For many years Mr Muir was first engineer with the firm of Frank C Strick & Co Ltd but he left in order to obtain experience in tankers, and became second engineer on the m.t. Invergardle which belonged to Andrew Weir & Co. This was the third tanker lost by the firm since the war began. All the officers were Scotsmen, with one exception. In 1927 Mr Muir, then chief officer on the SS Djerissa, was shipwrecked at Cresswell, Northumberland, when the vessel was driven onto the rocks. All members of the crew were rescued by breeches buoy but the ship became a total wreck. Mr Muir, who was well known in the district, is survived by his widow and a son of 15. A sister and two brothers reside in Glasgow.
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Mike Morley
Joined: 17 Apr 2013 Posts: 8667 Location: Roberton, Lanarkshire
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Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2016 8:29 pm Post subject: |
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Name: MCGARRIE, JOHN
Initials: J
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Greaser
Service Number: 225342
Regiment/Service: Naval Auxiliary Personnel (Merchant Navy), HMS Avenger
Date of Death: 15/11/1942
Age: 26
Additional Information: Son of John and Jessie McGarrie, of Stranraer, Wigtownshire; husband of Lily McGarrie, of Stranraer, Wigtownshire.
Panel Reference: Panel 7, Column 1
Memorial: Liverpool Naval Memorial |
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Mike Morley
Joined: 17 Apr 2013 Posts: 8667 Location: Roberton, Lanarkshire
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Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2016 8:29 pm Post subject: |
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Name: MCKEAN, GEORGE
Initials: G
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Sapper
Service Number: 1896460
Regiment/Service: Royal Engineers, 263 Field Coy
Date of Death: 6/6/1944
Age: 29
Additional Information: Son of Samuel and Agnes McKean; husband of May McKean, of Stranraer, Wigtownshire.
Panel Reference: Panel 12, Column 1
Memorial: Bayeux Memorial
Wigtownshire Free Press (20/7/1944): Sapper George McKean, RE, whose home is at 21 Princes Street, Stranraer, has been posted missing. Information to this effect reached his wife at the weekend. Before joining the Army he was employed by Mr R Biggam, builder, and he was previously with Mr A Sloss. He had only recently left this country.
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Mike Morley
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Name: MCKIE, JAMES
Initials: J
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Corporal
Service Number: 564998
Regiment/Service: Royal Air Force
Date of Death: 5/4/1941
Age: 27
Additional Information: Son of Mr. and Mrs. Alex McKie.
Panel Reference: Column 410
Memorial: Singapore Memorial
Wigtownshire Free Press (17/4/1941): Corporal James McKie, RAF, son of Mrs McKie, 6 John Simpson Drive, Stranraer, has been posted missing. He had been on overseas service for a considerable time. Corporal McKie joined the RAF on leaving school some years before war broke out.
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Mike Morley
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Name: MCLEAN, PETER
Initials: P
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Service Number: 7655022
Regiment/Service: Royal Army Ordnance Corps
Date of Death: 1/9/1941
Age: 34
Additional Information: Son of Peter and Mary H. McLean; husband of Christina M. H. G. McLean, of Stranraer.
Grave Reference: Sec S, Class 3, Grave 11
Cemetery: Stranraer (Glebe) Cemetery
Wigtownshire Free Press (4/9/1941): Peter McLean (aged 33) was killed on active service in England on Monday. McLean, who resided in Murrayfield, was called up in the latter part of last year and enlisted as a Armourer in the Army Ordnance Corps. He is survived by his wife and a family of seven children, the eldest of whom is still at school. Before joining the Army McLean was employed at Stranraer slaughter house, and for many years previous he was engaged as a boilerman at Greenvale Laundry. A younger brother, John McLean, who resided with his mother in Sheuchan Lane, is a prisoner in Germany. He took part in fighting in Greece.
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Mike Morley
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Name: RANKIN, JOHN MARQUIS
Initials: JM
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Flying Officer
Trade: Pilot
Service Number: 117925
Regiment/Service: Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, 107 Sqdn
Awards: DFC
Date of Death: 27/8/1943
Age: 32
Additional Information: Son of Frederick John and Grace Fraser Rankin, of Stranraer, Wigtownshire; husband of Edith Margaret Rankin, of Dunfermline, Fife.
Grave Reference: Grave 1
Cemetery: Auchy-Au-Bois Churchyard
Wigtownshire Free Press (9/9/1943): Pilot Officer John M Rankin, DFC, RAF, has been posted as missing from an operational flight. A son of Mr Fred Rankin and a son in law of Mrs McMaster, Ardgar, Pilot Officer Rankin was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for the part he played in a destructive raid on the Philips factory in Eindhoven last winter, and some time ago he was decorated at a Buckingham Palace investiture. He joined the RAFVR while he was in South America and came to this country with a contingent of British Latin Americans. He was given a commission last year.
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Mike Morley
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Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2016 8:31 pm Post subject: |
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Name: RODGER, ROBERT
Initials: R
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Service Number: 3129916
Regiment/Service: The Parachute Regiment, AAC, 4th Bn
Date of Death: 15/8/1944
Age: 29
Additional Information: Son of Robert and Jessie Rodger, of Stranraer, Wigtownshire.
Grave Reference: Plot 4, Row C, Grave 12
Cemetery: Mazargues War Cemetery, Marseilles
Wigtownshire Free Press (14/9/1944): Killed in action in Central Mediterranean Theatre of War, on August 15 1944, Robert (Bobby) Rodger, Army Air Corps, aged 29 years, eldest son of Mr and Mrs R Rodger, East Galdenoch, Stranraer. |
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David McNay Administrator
Joined: 14 Dec 2006 Posts: 11425 Location: Lanarkshire, Scotland
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Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2017 9:26 pm Post subject: Re: John Baillie Murray GH |
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We were contacted by Margaret Cameron, John Murray was her great-uncle. She has advised us that the mothers details in this post were incorrect, and I was happy to make the necessary amendments.
Anne, you may wish to update your database with the revised information.
anne park wrote: | John Baillie Murray Pte S/202200 1st Gordon Highlanders b Stranraer,Wigtown e Ayr Age 19 Killed in Action F & F 16/06/1917 Son of Mr. and Mrs. James L. Murray, of 48, Fisher St., Stranraer, Wigtownshire. 1901 Census: Fa Occ: Ostler. Mother: Annabella (nee Baillie). Soldiers Effects: Fa: John L. Arras Memorial M. R. 20 Panel 8 & 9 |
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Mike Morley
Joined: 17 Apr 2013 Posts: 8667 Location: Roberton, Lanarkshire
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Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2017 4:29 pm Post subject: |
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Name: CALDERWOOD, JAMES
Initials: J
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Serjeant
Service Number: 2979504
Regiment/Service: Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, 2nd Bn
Date of Death: 21/9/1944
Age: 31
Additional Information: Husband of Constance Mary Calderwood, of Lee, London.
Panel Reference: Column 80
Memorial: Singapore Memorial
Wigtownshire Free Press (20/5/1943): Mrs J Davitt, 38 Lochryan Street, Stranraer, has received official information from the Records Office that her brother, Sgt J Calderwood, Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders, is reported a prisoner of war in Japanese hands and is interred in Thai Camp. His wife, who was also reported missing at Singapore, is now safe in Melbourne, Australia. |
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Kenneth Morrison
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Mike Morley
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Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2017 8:42 am Post subject: |
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Thanks Ken, I found that RoH quite touching. |
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Mike Morley
Joined: 17 Apr 2013 Posts: 8667 Location: Roberton, Lanarkshire
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Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2017 8:00 pm Post subject: |
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This man appears on the War Memorial as Andrew Love but is actually Andrew (Love) Cairns.
Name: CAIRNS, ANDREW
Initials: A
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Captain
Regiment/Service: York and Lancaster Regiment, 7th Bn formerly Pipe-Major, 2nd Bn King's Own Scottish Borderers
Date of Death: 6/2/1942
Age: 34
Additional Information: Son of Andrew Love Cairns and Margaret Cairns; husband of Agnes Steele Cairns (nee Webster), of Juniper Green, Edinburgh.
Grave Reference: Sec N, Grave 27
Cemetery: Colinton Parish Churchyard, Southern Extension
Wigtownshire Free Press (26/2/1942): Captain Andrew Love Cairns, York and Lancaster Regiment, Has died in a Lanarkshire hospital. He was the eldest son of Mrs Dorans, 101 John Simpson Drive, Stranraer. Formerly Pipe Major of the 1st KOSB he served in India for 6 years and for a short period before the outbreak of war he was Sergeant Major at Stranraer. Three months after receiving his commission he was again promoted. One of his brothers is a Sergeant Major serving overseas and a younger brother is in the Black Watch. Captain Cairns, who was 34 years of age, leaves a widow and one child. |
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Mike Morley
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Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2017 8:15 pm Post subject: |
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Name: FERGUSON, ROBERT SPROAT
Initials: RS
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Driver
Service Number: T/110996
Regiment/Service: Royal Army Service Corps, 55 Inf Bde Group Coy
Date of Death: 5/12/1943
Age: 33
Additional Information: Son of George Ferguson, and of Sarah Ferguson, of Stranraer, Wigtownshire.
Grave Reference: 2 B 50
Cemetery: Kanchanaburi War Cemetery
Wigtownshire Free Press (19/3/1942): Driver Robert Sproat Ferguson, RASC, son of Mr and Mrs G Ferguson, 18 Broomfield Gardens, has been reported missing while serving in Malaya. He had seen service in France and was in the Dunkirk evacuation. Prior to joining up in November 1939 he was employed by Mr W Dyer, George Street. A brother is serving on a mine sweeper.
Also named on Stranraer Parish Church Memorial. |
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Mike Morley
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Name: GRAY, ARCHIBALD DOUGLAS
Initials: AD
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Chief Engineer Officer, SS Almeda Star (London)
Date of Death: 17/1/1941
Age: 50
Panel Reference: Panel 5
Memorial: Tower Hill Memorial
Wigtownshire Free Press (23/10/1941): Lost at sea January 1941 through enemy action, Douglas Gray, chief engineer, Blue Star Line, second son of the late Mr and Mrs John Gray, Stranraer.
SS Almeda Star was a steam passenger ship of the Blue Star Line. She was sunk by U96 on 17 January 1941 35 miles North East of Rockall with the loss of all 360 on board. (Source: uboat.net) |
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