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Mike Morley



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PostPosted: Mon Jul 04, 2016 12:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Name: LEADBETTER, R
Initials: R
Nationality: Canadian
Regiment/Service: Canadian Infantry, 13th Bn
Service number: 25042
Date of death: 5/9/1917
Age: 43
Additional Information: Son of James and Elizabeth Leadbetter, of Girvan: husband of Alice Leadbetter (nee Miller), of 71, Thistle St., Glasgow, Scotland. Born in Scotland.
Grave Reference: I Q 1
Cemetery: Aix-Noulette Communal Cemetery Extension

Wigtownshire Free Press (30/6/1916): Mr and Mrs James Leadbetter, 101 Williamson Street, Girvan, have received a letter from their son, Private Robt Leadbetter, informing them that he is located in hospital in England, suffering from shell shock. Private Leadbetter emigrated to Canada some six years ago, and shortly after the outbreak of war he inlisted in the Canadian Army, and has been in France for a year. Prior to emigrating he was employed as a mason with his father.
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 25, 2016 3:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Name: KIRKWOOD, HUGH
Initials: H
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Service Number: 21339
Regiment/Service: Highland Light Infantry, 11th Bn
Date of Death: 25/9/1915
Age: 21
Additional Information: Son of Hugh and Jean Kirkwood, of Main St., Symington, Kilmarnock, Ayrshire.
Panel Reference: Panel 108 to 112
Memorial: Loos Memorial

SNWM states he was born at Girvan and was attached to the HLI, formerly GS/3676 R. R. of Cav.

Wigtownshire Free Press (21/9/1916):



Also named on Stranraer Burgh War Memorial and Stranraer Parish Church Memorial.
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PostPosted: Sat Nov 05, 2016 7:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Name: BLAIR, JOHN
Initials: J
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Service Number: 820
Regiment/Service: Australian Infantry, AIF, 20th Bn
Date of Death: 26/7/1916
Age: 21
Additional Information: Son of the late James and Isabella Shaw Blair.
Memorial: Villers- Brettonneux Memorial

Wigtownshire Free Press (2/11/1916): Private John Blair, Autralian Expeditionary Force, who was posted missing sine July 26, is a son of Mr James Blair, a native of Girvan. He is 20 years of age.

Wigtownshire Free Press (30/11/1916): Private John Blair, Australian Imperial Forces, who was previously reported as missing, is now officially reported killed on July 26. Private Blair was in his 21st year, and a son of Mr James Blair, late of the Hamilton Stables, Girvan, and now residing in Yoker, Glasgow. Prior to enlisting Pte Blair was engaged in agricultural work in Sydney, having gone to Australia shortly before the war broke out. He came from a family well known and still represented in Girvan, and received his education at Girvan Burgh School.


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PostPosted: Fri Nov 11, 2016 7:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Name: MCWHIRTER, AH
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Service Number: 40793
Regiment/Service: King's Own Scottish Borderers, 2nd Bn
Date of Death: 25/9/1916
Grave Reference: V D 3
Cemetery: AIF Burial Grounds, Fleurs

Wigtownshire Free Press (9/11/1916): Information has reached Girvan that Private Hugh Alexander McWhirter, KOSB, has been posted as missing since September 25. Private McWhirter, who is about 19 years of age, is a son of H McWhirter, 38 Glendoune Street, Girvan. His twin brother, Trooper Edward McWhirter, is serving with the Ayrshire Imperial Yeomanry.
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 11, 2016 7:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks for the McWhirter details Mike. I'd missed that he was on this memorial.
He is also named on the Minnigaff Parish War Memorial in Kirkcudbrightshire as:

Pte. ALEX. McWHIRTER
Alexander Hugh McWhirter – age 18 – Private (40793) 2nd Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers.
Alexander enlisted in October 1914 in the 2/5th KOSB.
Born 1898 in Girvan, Ayrshire – as Hugh Alexander McWhirter (Source:SNWM and GRoS – Birth Register)
Son of Hugh and Maggie Jane (McNairn) McWhirter who had married in Minnigaff in 1897.
On the birth register entry Maggie Jane is shown as deceased and in 1901 Hugh, age 3, was living with his grandparents, John and Elizabeth McNairn, in Creebridge Village, Minnigaff.
Killed in Action on 25 September 1916 and buried in the A.I.F. Burial Ground, Flers, France.
Also named on the Creebridge Free Church Memorial now in Penninghame Parish Church.
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PostPosted: Sat Dec 10, 2016 7:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Named as Samuel Clark on the memorial but recorded on CWGC as Samuel McCrindle:

Name: MCCRINDLE, SAMUEL
Initials: S
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Able Seaman
Service Number: Clyde Z/6010
Regiment/Service: Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, Drake Bn RN Div
Date of Death: 13/11/1916
Panel Reference: Pier and Face 1A
Memorial: Thiepval Memorial

Wigtownshire Free Press (7/12/1916): Mrs Herron, 29 Ballybroke Street, Girvan, has been officially informed that her son, Able Seaman Samuel McCrindle Clark, RND, was killed on November 13. Seaman Clark was 27 years of age, and a fisherman by occupation. He served the full term of five years in the RN Reserve, and had re-engaged another term some considerable time before war broke out. He was called up on August 3 1914, and the following day he left - one of a score of local reservists - for the south of England. For some time Seaman Clark served on board a mine sweeper, and fully a year ago transferred to the RND, with which he had been in France some time before his death. He was well known, especially among the fishing community, but also to the inhabitants of Girvan generally.
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 29, 2016 3:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Name: MCCRINDLE, ROBERT
Initials: R
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Service Number: 41053
Regiment/Service: Highland Light Infantry, 17th Bn
Date of Death: 18/11/1916
Panel Reference: Pier and Face 15 C.
Memorial: Thiepval Memorial

Wigtownshire Free Press (28/12/1916): Miss Isa McCrindle, Balcamie, Stair Park, Girvan, has been officially informed that her brother, Private Robert McCrindle, HLI, has been missing since November 18th. Miss McCrindle has also received a letter from an officer in her brother's company giving the same information, and stating that he can hold out no hope for Private McCrindle being alive. Private McCrindle is the youngest son of the late John McCrindle, shepherd, Ardwell. He enlisted in June of this year, and went on active service in September. Prior to enlisting he was employed as a shepherd at Ardwell. He is 23 years of age.
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 28, 2017 2:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Names: MCDINES, WILLIAM
Initials: W
Nationality: Canadian
Rank: Private
Service Number: 198338
Regiment/Service: Canadian Infantry, 28th Bn
Date of Death: 15/9/1916
Memorial: Vimy Memorial

Wigtownshire Free Press: Mrs James McCrorie, Orange Arch, Girvan, has received intimation that her brother, Pte William McDines, Canadian Mounted Rifles, has been posted as wounded and missing since October. Private McDines, a son of the late Mr H McDines, Gas Lane, Girvan, was as a youth employed in Mr Armstrong's wool mill prior to emigrating to Canada some eight years ago. He is unmarried and well known in Girvan. Pte McDines is 29 years of age.
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 13, 2017 1:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Archibald Hyslop appears on CWGC as:

Name: HISLOP, A
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Able Seaman
Service Number: Clyde Z/2378
Regiment/Service: Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, Hood Bn, RN Div
Date of Death: 4/2/1917
Grave Reference: I E 7
Cemetery: Queens Cemetery, Bucquoy

Wigtownshire Free Press (12/4/1917): Mr and Mrs Robert Hislop, 10 Glendaune Street, Girvan, have received official intimation that their son, Able Seaman Archibal Hislop, Royal Naval Division, has been posted as missing since 4th February last, and letters from one of his comrades unfortunately leave no room for doubt that Able Seaman Hislop has made the supreme sacrifice. Able Seaman Hislop was 22 years of age and a native of Girvan. He served his apprenticeship as a baker with Mr Wm Davidson, Dalrymple Street, Girvan, and prior to the war he was employed in his trade at Armadale. The deceased's father has been on active service on a mine sweeper in the North Sea for the past eighteen months, and another brother is also serving afloat.
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 03, 2017 3:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Name: NESS, WILLIAM
Initials: W
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Service Number: 5306
Regiment/Service: Scots Guards, 2nd Bn
Date of Death: 5/8/1917
Grave Reference: V A 22
Cemetery: Cement House Cemetery

Wigtownshire Free Press (30/8/1917): Mrs Ness, residing with her mother, Mrs Irving, Hamilton Street, Girvan, has received official intimation to the effect that her husband, Private W Ness, Scots Guards, was killed in action in France on 5th August. Private Ness was a native of Kilmarnock, and was 31 years of age. As a youth he enlisted in the Regular Army, serving a term in the Scots Guards, and, leaving the Army in February 1907 he joined the Ayrshire Constabulary.
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Name: AUSTIN, WG
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Lieutenant
Regiment/Service: Royal Scots Fusiliers, 5th Bn
Date of Death: 23/8/1917
Age: 20
Additional Information: Son of Mr. and Mrs. James Austin, of Ballochneil, Girvan
Grave Reference: C 12
Cemetery: Girvan (Doune) Cemetery

Wigtownshire Free Press (30/8/1917): Second-Lieutenant William Girvan Austin, RSF (died of wounds), was 20 years of age and the younger son of Mr and Mrs James Austin, Neville Cottage, Girvan. Enlisting in November 1914, he obtained his commission in the RSF exactly a year later, and was subsequently was appointed under their Scottish Command Supervisor of Physical Training and Bayonet Fighting - an appointment which he held until February last, when he went up to the Front.
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Name: GLENDINNING, JAMES JACKSON
Initials: JJ
Nationality: New Zealand
Rank: Lance Corporal
Service Number: 11/804A
Regiment/Service: New Zealand Mounted Machine Gun Section
Date of Death: 14/11/1917
Age: 30
Additional Information: Son of Esther Luck Campbell (formerly Glendinning) of 30 Ailso Street, West Girvan, Ayrshire, Scotland, and the late James Glendinning.
Grave Reference: M 27
Cemetery: Ramleh War Cemetery

Wigtownshire Free Press (6/12/1917): Mrs S Campbell, Doonholm, Ailsa Street West, Girvan, has received official intimation that her only son, Lance-Corporal James Jackson Glendinning, Mounted Gun Squadron, New Zealand Force, was killed in action on November 14. Lance-Corporal Glendinning was a native of Girvan, and after receiving his education there he went to Glasgow, where he served his apprenticeship in the profession of architect. About eight years later he emigrated to New Zealand, where he was engaged in farming operations for several years preseeding the war. He served throughout the Gallipoli campaign, and was wounded in Palestine on August 4, 1916.
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Name: HANNAN, STANLEY LIVINGSTONE
Initials: SL
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Captain
Regiment/Service: Royal Field Artillery, "D" Bty, 275th Bde
Date of Death: 30/11/1917
Panel Reference: Panel 1
Memorial: Cambrai Memorial, Louveral.

Wigtownshire Free Press (27/12/1917): Information has been received by Mrs and Mrs William Hannon, Main Street, Maryhill, that their son, Captain Stanley L Hannan, Royal Field Artillery, was killed in action on 30th November. Captain Hannan was born in Girvan, and his parents are also natives of the town where they are well known. He was 26 years of age.
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Name: MCCREADIE, HUGH
Initials: H
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Service Number: 2561
Regiment/Service: Highland Light Infantry, 7th Bn
Date of Death: 9/10/1915
Panel Reference: Panel 174 to 178
Memorial: Helles Memorial

and his brother:

Name: MCCREADIE, JOHN
Initials: J
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Service Number: 14358
Regiment/Service: Royal Scots Fusiliers, 6th Bn
Date of Death: 26/9/1915
Panel Reference: Panel 46 to 49
Cemetery: Loos Memorial

Wigtownshire Free Press (26/10/1916): Official intimation has now been received that Private John McCreadie, Royal Scots Fusiliers, who was posted as missing on September 26 last year, is now presumed to have been killed on that date. Private McCreadie was a son of Me and Mrs William McCreadie, 72 Wilson Street, Girvan, another of whose sons, Private Hugh McCreadie, Highland Light Infantry, was killed at the Dardanelles on October 9th last year, and a third (Private A McCreadie) is now serving with the Motor Transport. Private John McCreadie was 38 years of age and was a native of Girvan but had lived practically all of his life in Glasgow where he had been employed, along with his brother Hugh, as a tenter with Messrs Wm Strang, Bridgeton.

Note: Hugh McCreadie is recorded in the City of Glasgow Roll of Honour as living at 12 Pentland Place, Bridgeton. John is not named on the Roll.


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PostPosted: Sat Jan 13, 2018 6:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Name: MCKIE, AO
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Air Mechanic 1st Class
Service Number: 213837
Regiment/Service: Royal Air Force
Date of Death: 23/10/1918
Additional Information: Husband of Christina M.J. McKie, of Craymore, Stair Park, Girvan.
Grave Reference: B745
Cemetery: Girvan (Doune) Cemetery

Also named on Ballantrae War Memorial
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