The Scottish Military Research Group - Commemorations Project

David McNay · Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2018 9:46 pm Post subject:

I'm not sure - I'm hoping that as the renovation was still some way off being complete that this was not in place yet and so survived.

stuartn · Joined: 13 Dec 2016 Posts: 2468

This memorial is WMR 70719, it was added to the register after the 1st fire. I added a note last week to the record that the fate of the memorial is currently unknown, following this 2nd fire

Mike Morley · Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2018 12:34 pm Post subject:

Name: WOODSIDE, DAVID CUNNINGHAME
Initials: DC
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Second Lieutenant
Regiment/Service: Royal Scots Fusiliers
Date of Death: 26/2/1916
Age: 26
Additional Information: Son of David and Elizabeth M. Woodside, of I, Colehawke Terrace, Glasgow. Joined 5th Scottish Rifles in Aug., 1914. Was wounded at Gallipoli in Dec., 1915.
Grave Reference: N663
Cemetery: Glasgow Western Necropolis

Two of his brothers also died in the war. He attended Glasgow School of Art from leaving Glasgow High School in 1906, studying architecture. Struck by shrapnel near Krithia Nullah on 31 December 1915 and evacuated to Blue Sisters Hospital in Malta. Evacuated to Britain with a shell splinter still lodged in his body: three days after the operation to remove it he developed perforated peritonitis and died. (Source: Article on the Woodside brothers in History Scotland July/August 1918)

Mike Morley · Posted: Wed Feb 26, 2020 7:19 pm Post subject:

Name: FRASER, HERBERT ROSS
Initials: HR
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Second Lieutenant
Regiment/Service: Royal Scots, 17th Bn
Date of Death: 24/8/1916
Age: 33
Additional Information: Son of the late Alexander Duckworth Fraser, and of Zillah Fraser, of Edinburgh.
Grave Reference: Sp Mem B 4
Cemetery: Peronne Road Cemetery, Maricourt.

Also named on Hamilton War Memorial and St Mary's Episcopal Church, Hamilton, Memorial.

Mike Morley · Posted: Wed Sep 02, 2020 1:16 pm Post subject:

Name: ABERCROMBIE, JOHN BALFOUR SYMINGTON
Initials: JBS
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Service Number: 5532
Regiment/Service: Black Watch (Royal Highlanders), 1st/7th Bn
Date of Death: 31/7/1916
Age: 37
Additional Information: Son of Mr. and Mrs. William Abercrombie, of Paisley.
Grave Reference: II J 5
Cemetery: Dantzig Alley Britsi Cemetery, Mametz

Also named on Paisley Grammar School Memorial, Royal Troon Golf Club and the Paisley Middle Church Memorial.

JBS Abercrombie was an architect before the war. A brief biography can be found on the Directory of Scottish Architects website: http://www.scottisharchitects.org.uk/architect_full.php?id=200000

Mike Morley · Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2020 12:30 pm Post subject:

Name: LAWRIE, ALLAN JAMES
Initials: AJ
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Captain
Regiment/Service: Cameronians (Scottish Rifles), 6th Bn
Date of Death: 16/5/1915
Age: 27
Additional Information: Son of Frank Lawrie, of Hillside House, Bothwell, Lanarkshire.
Grave Reference: Sp Mem 2
Cemetery: Rue-Du-Bois Military Cemetery, Fleurbaix.

Also named on Allan Glen's School Roll of Honour and Bothwell War Memorial.

A short biography of Captian Lawrie can be found on the Glasgow School of Art Archive at: https://gsaarchives.net/collections/index.php/lawrie-allan-j

Mike Morley · Posted: Sun Nov 22, 2020 7:22 pm Post subject:

Name: CARSWELL, JOHN JAMIESON
Initials: JJ
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Second Lieutenant
Regiment/Service: Cameronians (Scottish Rifles), 10th Bn
Date of Death: 25/9/1915
Panel Reference: Panel 57 to 59
Memorial: Loos Memorial.

Also named on Glasgow Academy War Memorial.

Mike Morley · Posted: Tue Dec 01, 2020 1:32 pm Post subject:

Name: LAWRIE, ALLAN JAMES
Initials: AJ
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Captain
Regiment/Service: Cameronians (Scottish Rifles), 6th Bn
Date of Death: 16/5/1915
Age: 27
Additional Information: Son of Frank Lawrie, of Hillside House, Bothwell, Lanarkshire.
Panel Reference: Sp Mem 2
Cemetery: Rue-Du-Bois Military Cemetery, Fleurbaix.

Also named on Glasgow Academy War Memorial.

Studied Architecture at the School of Art 1905-1910.

Mike Morley · Posted: Fri Dec 18, 2020 1:48 pm Post subject:

Name: THOMSON, DUNCAN TURNER
Initials: DT
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Service Number: 118
Regiment/Service: Highland Light Infantry, 9th (Glasgow Hdrs) Bn, formerly 6th Bn
Date of Death: 30/7/1915
Age: 26
Additional Information: Son of Dr. Alexander Thomson and Mrs. M. J. Thomson, of 8, Hamilton Park Terrace, Hillhead, Glasgow. Born at Huntly, Aberdeenshire.
Grave Reference: K 139
Cemetery: Glasgow Western Necropolis.

Also named on Glasgow Academy and the Royal Technical College (Strathclyde University) War Memorials.

Mike Morley · Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2021 7:31 pm Post subject:

Name: WINGATE, ALEXANDER
Initials: A
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Second Lieutenant
Regiment/Service: Highland Light Infantry, 9th (Glasgow Hdrs) Bn
Date of Death: 13/10/1915
Age: 40
Additional Information: Son of Walter Ewing Wingate and Mary Ann Taylor Wingate, of Glasgow.
Grave Reference: A 1
Cemetery: Cambrin Churchyard Extension.

Also named on Kelvinside Academy and the Royal Technical College (Strathclyde University) War Memorials.