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David McNay Administrator
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Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2015 9:00 pm Post subject: Dunbeth Parish Church, Coatbridge. WW2 |
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Dunbeth Parish Church merged with Gartsherrie and Maxwell Churches in the mid-1990s. The then-formed St Andrews Church now meet in the old Gartsherrie Church Building. Dunbeth Church was sold and has been redeveloped for flats.
The plaques for Dunbeth Church are situated in a small "chapel" behind the main church:
This plaque for the Second World War was originally on a table and was removed and remounted as a plaque after the union within the Churches.
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David McNay Administrator
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Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2015 9:11 pm Post subject: |
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DENHOLM%20John%20Miller_zps15tdy2l7 by Scottish Military Research Group, on Flickr
DENHOLM, John Miller
Rank: Lieutenant
Service No: 261353
Date of Death: 12/08/1943
Age: 23
Regiment/Service: Royal Engineers
Grave Reference: 10. C. 2.
Cemetery: KARACHI WAR CEMETERY
Additional Information: Son of Robert Denholm and of Annie Davie Denholm (nee Miller), of Coatbridge, Lanarkshire. B.L. (Glasgow).
Also listed on the Coatbridge civic memorial, the Glasgow Academy memorial and the Glasgow University memorial.
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Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2015 9:15 pm Post subject: |
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KENNEDY, John
Rank: Serjeant
Service No: 838913
Date of Death: 11/04/1944
Age: 27
Regiment/Service: Royal Artillery
Grave Reference: Sec. 36. Grave 2.
Cemetery: OLD MONKLAND CEMETERY
Additional Information: Son of John and Lily Morgan Hannah Kennedy, of Coatbridge.
Also listed on the Coatbridge civic memorial. |
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Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2015 9:18 pm Post subject: |
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Name: McARD, JAMES
Initials: J
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Driver
Regiment/Service: Royal Engineers
Unit Text: 240 Army Field Coy.
Age: 21
Date of Death: 30/05/1940
Service No: 2076938
Additional information: Son of Thomas and Helen McArd (nee Hannah), of Coatbridge, Lanarkshire. Grandson of John and Lily Hannah (nee Millington). SNWM lists birthplace as Coatbridge.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: 2. D. 6.
Cemetery: SAGE WAR CEMETERY
Also listed on the Coatbridge civic memorial.
Commemorated on a family gravestone in Old Monkland cemetery:
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Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2015 9:21 pm Post subject: |
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NAME: MILLS, STALFORD KEITH
Rank: Sergeant
Service No: 639593
Date of Death: 12/05/1941
Age: 22
Regiment/Service: Royal Air Force, 58 Sqdn.
Panel Reference: Panel 48.
Memorial: RUNNYMEDE MEMORIAL
Additional Information: Son of John and Margaret Mills, of Coatbridge, Lanarkshire.
Also listed on the Coatbridge civic memorial.
There is a blog post found here which gives some details of the circumstances of Mills's death. |
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Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2015 9:28 pm Post subject: |
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NAME: PIRIE, SYDNEY ROBERTSON
Rank: Lieutenant
Service No: 247635
Date of Death: 11/04/1945
Age: 23
Regiment/Service: Royal Artillery, 97 (3rd Bn. The London Scottish) H.A.A. Regt.
Grave Reference: IV, C, 4.
Cemetery: ARGENTA GAP WAR CEMETERY
Additional Information: Son of John and Dorothy Pirie, of Coatbridge, Lanarkshire.
Also listed on the Coatbridge civic memorial. |
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NAME: REID, ALICE MAUD
Rank: Civilian
Date of Death: 19/01/1942
Age: 46
Regiment/Service: Civilian War Dead
Reporting Authority: R.M.S. LADY HAWKINS
Additional Information: Daughter of Alice Maud Reid, of 90 Kellock Avenue, Old Monkland, Coatbridge, Lanarkshire, and of the late Henry Sharp Reid.
Also listed on the Coatbridge civic memorial.
Listed as W.A.A.F. on the Coatbridge memorial, it is believed that she had applied through the British Embassy to join the WAAF who sent her home from Canada to finish the process of enlistment. |
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