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Joined: 09 Jan 2007 Posts: 4991 Location: St John's Town of Dalry
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Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 11:18 am Post subject: Dornock Church WW1 and WW2 |
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I would normally have posted these separately but as they are such an unusual matched pair, I thought they deserved to be posted together.
The memorials are inside Dornock parish church at OS Map Ref: NY 230 660. This is the parish church that covers Eastriggs and the names on these memorials are the same as on the Dornock/Eastriggs civic memorial with 2 exceptions (see below). No idea what order these names are in though.
WW1 memorial is UKNIWM 44115 and the WW2 memorial is UKNIWM 44116.
WW1 Names
JAMES G MUIRHEAD
DAVID MURRAY
DAVID CLOWE
SIMON CLOWE
WILLIAM ECCLESTONE
WILLIAM M HILL
ROBERT ANDERSON
CHARLES VEITCH MM
EDWARD McLAUCHLAN
ROBERT JACKSON
DAVID ARMSTRONG
THOMAS W McCUBBIN
THOMAS H ARMSTRONG
EDWARD GORDON
JAMES DIROM
DAVID POOL
WILLIAM POOL
WILLIAM S MUIRHEAD
JAMES MUIRHEAD
WW2 Names
DAVID S SCOTT
KENNETH G COMRIE
LESLIE C COMRIE
JAMES COWAN
JAMES WARWICK
WILLIAM CONCHIE
ROBERT VALLANCE
JACK E PHILLIPS
DAVID W SMITH
ROBERT MAXWELL
JAMES BURNETT
JOHN HYSLOP
HARRY PITT
WILLIAM J T IRVING
ROBERT C P CARMONT
THOMAS DALTON
No rank or regiment details on these memorials but the Dornock/Eastriggs civic memorial has regiment details and the following additional names:
Shannon died Jun 1946 Munster
Shields died Nov 1947 Israel
so I take it that these church memorials were created in late '45 or early '46.
Normally I find in this area that the WW1 memorials have 4 or 5 times the number of WW2 names. This was because of the much greater loss in WW1. Not so with Dornock however, this is because it was a small rural community at the outbreak of WW1 but the creation of the armaments factory and the dormitory town of Eastriggs (inside the parish) meant there was a much greater population at the outbreak of WW2.
I half expected to see some names of female munitions workers on the WW1 memorials, with the factory nearby - there is one name on the Dumfries memorial. By all accounts they made significant contribution to the war effort and suffered in the working conditions. See the 'Devil's Porridge' exhibition in Eastriggs and online for more details.
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