The Scottish Military Research Group - Commemorations Project

apanderson · Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2015 2:56 pm Post subject: Gartcosh New Memorial

Erected in November 2014 directly opposite the Church beside the Memorial Cottage.

See: http://warmemscot.s4.bizhat.com/viewtopic.php?t=228&highlight=gartcosh

Also: http://warmemscot.s4.bizhat.com/viewtopic.php?p=72213#72213

apanderson · Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2015 2:58 pm Post subject:

WW1

apanderson · Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2015 3:00 pm Post subject:

WW2

Kenneth Morrison · Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2015 6:43 pm Post subject:

Well done to the community for this work - it is a credit to them!

I had forgotten just how close Glenboig and Gartcosh are until I spotted this man on both (the post is from the Glenboig and Annathill thread)
http://warmemscot.s4.bizhat.com/viewtopic.php?t=244&highlight=duvoisin

dhubthaigh wrote:
Research may have been carried out on this memorial but I did notice the 'added' name - John Duvoisin;

Name: DUVOISIN, JOHN HURLL
Initials: J H
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Second Lieutenant
Regiment/Service: Highland Light Infantry
Unit Text: 9th (Glasgow Hdrs.) Bn.
Date of Death: 15/07/1916
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Pier and Face 15 C.
Memorial: THIEPVAL MEMORIAL

In the 1881 Scottish census Emile Duvoisin, from Switzerland, was an iron merchant living at 27 Windsor Terr., Glasgow.
By 1891 we have Emile Davaisin (this is an ancestry transcription) married to Sarah with son John, living at 6 Broomhill Ave., Glasgow.
We have covered a few different nationalities but this, I think, is the first Swiss connection?

John is also listed on the Bearsden War Memorial and on the family gravestone in the nearby New Kilpatrick Cemetery.

New Kilpatrick Cemetery (Page 10), see:
http://scottishwargraves.phpbbweb.com/viewtopic.php?p=29108&mforum=scottishwargraves#29108

Bearsden Memorial, see: And Bearsden Civic Memorial:
http://warmemscot.s4.bizhat.com/viewtopic.php?t=608&highlight=bearsden

In the Scottish Post Office Directories for Glasgow in the early 1900's his father Emile Duvoisin is shown as of "Peter and Mark Hurll". This company operated two brickworks in the Glenboig area. For details see : http://glenboig.com/page7.htm
As John's mother Sarah was a Hurll presumably Emile married into the family business.
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apanderson · Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2015 6:47 pm Post subject:

He's also here:(The High School of Glasgow)

http://warmemscot.s4.bizhat.com/viewtopic.php?t=5638&highlight=duvoisin

Anne Smile

anne park · Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2015 10:19 am Post subject: William Strachan Kennedy

Rank:Private
Service No:S/9378
Date of Death:10/04/1915 Missing since 26-8-14.
Regiment/Service:Gordon Highlanders 1st Bn.
Panel Reference: Memorial:COLOGNE MEMORIAL
Son of James & Jane Kennedy, Schoolhouse, Cadder.
Soldiers Effects has Mo: Jane. Bro: Robert. Walter. Archie Sis: Jessie. Annie.
Father's Occ 1891 Census Teacher of Public School.
Mother Jane Ferguson.
Evening Times 10-6-15 : Photo
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