The Scottish Military Research Group - Commemorations Project

dhubthaigh · Posted: Wed May 27, 2009 5:23 pm Post subject: Peter John Stewart McPhail

I recently spied a plaque affixed to the side of the old 'Nurses House' in Kenmore but didn't investigate until today - I'm glad I did;

Name: McPHAIL, PETER JOHN STEWART
Initials: P J S
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Lieutenant
Regiment/Service: Royal Garrison Artillery
Age: 30
Date of Death: 26/11/1918
Additional information: Son of Peter and Catherine McEwan McPhail, of 7, Craigmillar Park, Edinburgh.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: W. 212.
Cemetery: EDINBURGH (GRANGE) CEMETERY

dhubthaigh · Posted: Wed May 27, 2009 5:27 pm Post subject:

Found this on 'Old Breadalbane Surnames'

"Mr. Peter McPhail, born at Balnasuim, Lawers, a prosperous merchant in Edinburgh, gave the sum of £2,000 in 1919 to the Kenmore Nursing Association to form a memorial of his only son, Lieutenant P. J. Stewart McPhail, R.G.A., who died in hospital at Winchester, 26th November, 1918. The Marquis of Breadalbane at the same time intimated his intention to grant a perpetual title to the Association for the cottage occupied by the nurse in the village of Kenmore; and the Association has since been called "The Stewart McPhail Memorial Nursing Association." Mr. Peter McPhail died at Craigmillar Park, Edinburgh, 11th September, 1921. His widow, Catherine McEwen, who was born at Ardradnaig, survives (1937)."

mikky · Joined: 07 Jan 2009 Posts: 171

Well done I had the reference you quoted but nothing else. Have lived in area for most of my life and never seen it.
What a find. I will be going out to Kenmore to have a look.
You never know what out there eh?
How did you spot that?

Mike

dalblair · Joined: 26 Aug 2010 Posts: 564 Location: coupar angus

Dedicated in Aberfeldy Parish Church on 2nd August 1919.

stuartn · Joined: 13 Dec 2016 Posts: 2551

WMR 81845