The Scottish Military Research Group - Commemorations Project

jamiemcginlay · Joined: 20 Dec 2006 Posts: 930 Location: Glasgow

Kingarth - Island of Bute
Does not appear to be registered on UKNIM

The Kingarth war memorial is a dressed grey granite celtic cross with wheel-head and a celtic knotwork patter carved in relief on the face. The commemoration and names of the dead are listed in black lead lettering on the faces of the low tapering pedestal which rests on a rustic granite plinth.
The monument stands in a small garden surrounded by a rail on a junction on the main road, the A844, about a mile north of the village.

WWI ROLL OF HONOUR (In alphabetical order and includes year of death):
BELL R. CAMERON HIGHLANDERS PRIVATE 1915
BLACK D. CANADIANS LANCE CORPORAL MILITARY MEDAL 1918
BLACK R.D. CAMERON HIGHLANDERS PRIVATE 1918
BOAG D. CANADIANS SERGEANT PRINCESS PATRICIA'S CANADIAN LIGHT INFANTRY 1917
CRICHTON-STUART N.E. WELCH REGIMENT LIEUTENANT COLONEL 1915
DEMPSIE J. ROYAL SCOTS PRIVATE 1918
FERGUSON A. ARGYLL & SUTHERLAND HIGHLANDERS PRIVATE 1917
FERGUSON D. CANADIANS PIPER 1918
GORDON J. CAMERON HIGHLANDERS PRIVATE 1915
HALLIDAY D. BLACK WATCH PRIVATE 1918
LAMONT D. ROYAL SCOTS FUSILIERS PRIVATE 1918
MACDONALD S. ROYAL SCOTS LIEUTENANT 1918
MACINTYRE D. GORDON HIGHLANDERS PRIVATE 1915
MCCABE J. ARGYLL & SUTHERLAND HIGHLANDERS PRIVATE 1918
MCCABE J. LONDON IRISH PRIVATE 1917
MCFARLANE D. MACHINE GUN CORPS PRIVATE 1917
MCKAY J. KINGS AFRICAN RIFLES COMPANY SERGEANT MAJOR 1918
MCKECHNIE A. SOUTH AFRICANS PRIVATE SOUTH AFRICAN SCOTTISH 1917
MCKENZIE J. ROYAL GARRISON ARTILLERY GUNNER 1915
MCKENZIE J. ARGYLL & SUTHERLAND HIGHLANDERS PRIVATE 1917
MCLELLAN S. ROYAL ENGINEERS CAPTAIN 1917
MCLEOD H. ROYAL GARRISON ARTILLERY GUNNER 1918
MCMILLAN W. HIGHLAND LIGHT INFANTRY PRIVATE 1916
ORR W. DRAGOONS TROOPER 1916
POWELL W. ROYAL ARMY SERVICE CORPS PRIVATE 1918
REITH S. DEOLLI REGIMENT LIEUTENANT 1918
ROY N.F. ROYAL NAVY ABLE SEAMAN R.N.V.R. 1915
ROY P. ROYAL NAVY SUB LIEUTENANT R.N.V.R. 1918
SAUNDERS F. ARGYLL & SUTHERLAND HIGHLANDERS LIEUTENANT 1918
STEWART W. NORTH STAFFORDSHIRES PRIVATE 1918
WILSON J. ROYAL ARMY SERVICE CORPS CORPORAL 1918

WWII ROLL OF HONOUR:
BELL A.C. ROYAL ARTILLERY SERGEANT 1940
FISHER R. MERCHANT NAVY ABLE SEAMAN 1940
GRANT W.H. ROYAL ARTILLERY SECOND LIEUTENANT 1940
KERNACHAN J. ROYAL ARMY SERVICE CORPS DRIVER 1943
MACRAE J.D.C.S. SCOTS GUARDS MAJOR DISTINGUISHED SERVICE ORDER 1942
MCCABE P. BLACK WATCH PRIVATE 1944
MCDOUGALL J.J. GORDON HIGHLANDERS PRIVATE 1944
SHIELDS J. ROYAL ARTILLERY GUNNER 1944
SMAIL H.M. ROYAL NAVY LEADING WREN W.R.N.S. 1944
SMITH M. SEAFORTH HIGHLANDERS PRIVATE 1944

dhubthaigh · Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2007 1:00 am Post subject:

Name: CRICHTON-STUART, Lord NINIAN EDWARD
Initials: N E
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Lieutenant Colonel
Regiment/Service: Welsh Regiment
Unit Text: Commanding 6th Bn.
Secondary Regiment: Scots Guards
Secondary Unit Text: formerly Lt., Reserve of Officers,
Age: 32
Date of Death: 02/10/1915
Additional information: Second son of John Patrick, 3rd Marquess of Bute, K.T., and Gwendoline, Marchioness of Bute; husband of Lady Ninian Crichton-Stuart (now the Hon. Mrs. A. H. M. Ramsay), of 87, Lancaster Gate, London. Member of Parliament for Cardiff 1910-1915 and Justice of the Peace for County Fife.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: III. M. 10.
Cemetery: BETHUNE TOWN CEMETERY

dhubthaigh · Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2007 1:05 am Post subject:

Lt.-Col. Lord Ninan Edward Crichton-Stuart (15 May 1883 – 2 October 1915) was a son of John Crichton-Stuart, 3rd Marquess of Bute and Hon. Gwendolen Mary Anne Fitzalan-Howard.

Educated at Harrow School and Oxford, he was commissioned in 1903 into the 3rd Battalion of the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders and then served for two years in 1st Battalion Scots Guards.

Married the Hon. Ismay Preston in 1906 and left the army after his marriage to concentrate on politics. In 1907 he was adopted as the Unionist candidate for the United Boroughs of Cardiff, Cowbridge and Llantrisant. Lost the election to D.A. Thomas in January 1910 but was successful in winning back the seat in the December 1910 election. Took command of the 6th Welsh Battalion in 1912; he died during World War I in 1915.

dhubthaigh · Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2007 1:07 am Post subject:

There is a statue in Memory of Lord Ninian situated in Gorsedd Gardens, Cardiff. Sculpted by William Goscombe John (1860-1952).

Ninian Park, the famous old football ground in Cardiff, is named after Lord Ninian.

CSMMo · Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2007 4:47 am Post subject:

Missing Names from the other side of the monument:
Pte. J. McKenzie, A&SH 1917
Pte. A. Ferguson, A&SH 1917
Sgt. D. Boag, PPLCI 1917
Pte. J. McCabe, London Irish 1917
Piper D. Ferguson, Canadians 1918
Pte. W. Stewart, North Staffordshires 1918
Pte J. Dempsie, RS 1918
Lt. F. Saunders, A&SH 1918
L. Cpl. D. Black, MM, Canadians 1918
Pte. D. Lamont, RSF 1918

This monument, obviously well maintained, is in a very rural area. It is somewhat near Mount Stuart, home of Lord Bute, which may account for it's lovely maintenance. (Just a guess.)
I hope this helps.
Mike Morrison
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Researching the 4th Highland (Mountain) Brigade, RGA (TF), Argyll, Bute and Ross & Cromarty Mountain Batteries - Gallipoli, Egypt & Salonika

Tonym · Joined: 18 Jan 2007 Posts: 224 Location: East Sussex

Leading Wren Heather Mowbray Smail - 12th February 1944 was a casulty on the SS Khedive Ismail, torpedoed by Japanese subI-27 in the Indian Ocean. The third worst shipping disaster of the Second World War.

The submarine was blown in half three hours later by a torpedo from HMS Petard
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Pte. W. BROWN, Middlesex Regiment, K.I.A Battle of The Somme.
Sgt. J. V. MURPHY, The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders, D.O.W Monte Cassino, Italy.

jamiemcginlay · Joined: 20 Dec 2006 Posts: 930 Location: Glasgow

Hello Mike,
Thanks for the information and the additional names, much appreciated!
Jim

dhubthaigh · Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2008 9:41 am Post subject:

Name: SMAIL, HEATHER MOWBRAY
Initials: H M
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Leading Wren
Regiment/Service: Women's Royal Naval Service
Unit Text: H.M.S. Assegai
Age: 20
Date of Death: 12/02/1944
Service No: R/43136.
Additional information: Daughter of Walter and Ida Smail, of Withernsea, Yorkshire.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: 79, 3.
Memorial: CHATHAM NAVAL MEMORIAL

Kenneth Morrison · Posted: Sun Aug 19, 2012 10:50 am Post subject:

This man was the Minister of Anwoth Church, Gatehouse-of -Fleet, Kirkcudbrightshire from 1907. He is listed on the War Memorial in Gatehouse, on the Anwoth Parish Church Memorial and, I think, on an individual memorial there.

SAUNDERS, FRANK WILLIAM
Rank:Second Lieutenant
Date of Death:01/08/1918
Age:37
Regiment/Service:Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
8th Bn.
Grave ReferenceII. A. 4.
CemeteryOULCHY-LE-CHATEAU CHURCHYARD EXTENSION
Additional Information:
Husband of Jenny C. Meiklejohn Saunders, of Anworth, Craigmore, Bute. Minister of the Parish of Anwoth. M.A., B.D., of Glasgow University.

Francis was born in 1881 in Kingarth where his father, the Rev. John Saunders, was the minister. He was educated at Rothesay Academy and at Glasgow University - awarded M.A. in 1902 and B.D. in 1905.
He married Janet Cocrane Meiklejohn in 1908 in Glasgow.
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Ken

anne park · Posted: Sun Jan 11, 2015 9:31 am Post subject: Donald MacIntyre

Donald MacIntyre Pte S/7413 1st Gordon Highlanders b Kingarth,Bute e Rothesay Age 28 Killed in Action F & F 25/09/1915 Son of Mr. and Mrs. Dugald McIntyre, of 10, Abercorn St., Glasgow. Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres M. R. 29 Panel 38
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Researching WWI info from Aberdeenshire, Banffshire, Kincardineshire & Morayshire.

Mike Morley · Posted: Thu Dec 03, 2020 1:53 pm Post subject:

Name: MACDONALD, SYDNEY
Initials: S
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Lieutenant
Regiment/Service: Royal Scots, 1st/4th Bn
Date of Death: 2/9/1918
Age: 31
Additional Information: Son of the late James Macdonald and Mrs. Macdonald, of Invergate, Row, Dumbartonshire; husband of Mary A. Macdonald (nee Macewen), of 5, Gillsland Rd., Edinburgh.
Grave Reference: I D 12
Cemetery: Queant Road Cemetery, Buissy.

Also named on a personal memorial in Morham Church, and on Glasgow Academy, Morham, and Rhu War Memorials.

Mike Morley · Posted: Tue May 04, 2021 6:41 pm Post subject:

Name: REITH, STEVEN DONALDSON
Initials: SD
Nationality: Indian
Rank: Lieutenant
Regiment/Service: 42nd Deoli Regiment, 2nd Bn., formerly 17th Bn. Highland Light Infantry
Awards: Distinguished Conduct Medal
Date of Death: 21/9/1918
Age: 26
Additional Information: Son of William and Janet Steven Keith, of 43, Havelock St., Partick, Glasgow. B.Sc.
Grave Reference: U 14
Cemetery: Ramleh War Cemetery.

Also named on Hillhead High School War Memorial and in the University of Glasgow Memorial Chapel.