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spoons
Joined: 09 Jan 2007 Posts: 4991 Location: St John's Town of Dalry
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Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 5:18 pm Post subject: Brydekirk Church WW1 |
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UKNIWM 44098
The memorial is inside Brydekirk church at OS Map Ref: NY 182 704
The memorial is made of copper with an unusual embossing and this is the best of several photos (still not good), so a full transcription:
ROLL OF HONOUR
TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN MEMORY
OF THOSE CONNECTED WITH THIS CONGREGATION
WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR 1914 – 1919
CAPT JOHN VIVERS
SGT GEORGE THOMSON DCM
CPL JOHN AITCHISON
CPL JAMES ARMSTRONG
LCPL ALEXANDER P BELL
LCPL ROBERT CARRUTHERS
LCPL JACOB S SPENCER
PTE GEORGE H ARMSTRONG
PTE PATRICK A BELL
PTE WILLIAM CARLYLE
PTE EDWARD CARLYLE
PTE THOMAS DALRYMPLE
PTE GEORGE W GRAHAM
PTE ALBERT B HALLIDAY
PTE JAMES HALLIDAY
PTE JAMES HASTIE
PTE DAVID KIRKPATRICK
PTE WILLIAM McDONALD
PTE DAVID B RICHARDSON
PTE WILLIAM THOMSON
PTE JAMES WALKER
DIED AT HOME
PTE WILLIAM ARMSTRONG
PTE THOMAS BELL
GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS
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Kenneth Morrison
Joined: 29 Sep 2008 Posts: 7779 Location: Rockcliffe Dalbeattie
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Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2017 11:18 am Post subject: |
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DIED AT HOME
Named on the Parish War Memorial as:
PTE. WM. ARMSTRONG, BLACK WATCH.
Not listed by CWGC.
William, aged 22, was an insurance agent when he enlisted in December 1915. He was mobilised as Private (12553) in the 3rd (Reserve) Battalion of the Black Watch in January 1916 but during his training he was diagnosed with tuberculosis at the Military Hospital at Cromarty and he was discharged from the army on 29 March 1916. He died at home four months later.
Born 1892 in Brydekirk. Son of William and Annie Shaw (O'Hara) Armstrong of High Street, Brydekirk.
Died on 25 July 1916. Burial place not known.
THOMAS BELL is not named on the War Memorial.
He died on 19 September 1919 at Mount Annan Lodge, Brydekirk in Hoddom Parish of Mitral Regurgitation. He was 27, single and a Discharged Soldier (Railway Guard) His father was Andrew Bell, an estate worker, and his late mother was Maggie Jane Halliday.
As yet I haven't been able to trace his military service. _________________ Ken |
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