The Scottish War Graves Project

apanderson · Joined: 02 Oct 2007 Posts: 6903 Location: Stirlingshire

Name: WILSON, JAMES GORDON
Initials: J G
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Serjeant
Regiment/Service: Royal Artillery
Age: 24
Date of Death: 20/09/1945
Service No: 1445156
Additional information: Son of Gordon and Jean Wilson, of Kirkintilloch, Dunbartonshire.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: I, C, 16.
Cemetery: ROME WAR CEMETERY

Also on stone: GORDON WILSON, M.S., M.M., died 24 .12.1963, husband of Jane Ritchie

apanderson · Joined: 02 Oct 2007 Posts: 6903 Location: Stirlingshire

Belgian Refugees 1914 – 1918
EUGENE VAN DE PLAITSEN
JOANNES AUG PAS
KAMILLI ALBERT VERKAMMEN

apanderson · Joined: 02 Oct 2007 Posts: 6903 Location: Stirlingshire

JAMES BROWNLIE, M.M., died 07.01.1947 aged 55
Husband of MARGARET BROWNLIE ‘Maggie’

apanderson · Joined: 02 Oct 2007 Posts: 6903 Location: Stirlingshire

JOHN CAMPBELL M.D., Surgeon in the Royal Navy who died April 25th 1875 aged 28 years
Son of David Alexander Campbell, Wine Merchant, Glasgow and Jane Campbell (nee Vary)

apanderson · Joined: 02 Oct 2007 Posts: 6903 Location: Stirlingshire

In memory of THOMAS CARRIGAN who was killed by falling from a …….?
On board H.M.S. ‘Lord Warden’ and was buried at sea
July 15th 1874 aged 25 years and 3 months
The above is dedicated to his memory by his shipmates as a token of respect
H.M.S. ‘Lord Warden’, Mediterranean

National Maritime Museum: http://www.nmm.ac.uk/collections/explore/object.cfm?ID=TXT0019

HMS 'Lord Warden' was built at Chatham and was the heaviest wooden ship ever launched. With her sister ship 'Lord Clyde', she was the last of the broadside ships. She was deployed against left-wing Spanish forces in 1873, also serving in the Mediterranean and Channel. She was broken up in 1889.

Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Lord_Warden_(1865)

HMS Lord Warden was the second and final ship to be completed of the Lord Clyde class.

She was heavier than her sister, HMS Lord Clyde by about 360 tons; partly because she carried heavier machinery and was fitted with a poop, and partly because the wood used for the construction of Lord Clyde was, as it transpired, incompletely seasoned. The two ships differed in appearance in that Lord Warden had a clipper bow incorporating a submerged ram, while Lord Clyde had a standard ram bow.

Apart from the fact that Lord Clyde was built using incompletely seasoned wood, which became infected with fungus and caused her early sale out of the service, the major difference between the two sister-ships was in their engines. Lord Warden had a three-cylinder engine, in which the mechanical strains and reactions were balanced, giving some eighteen years of essentially trouble-free service; Lord Clyde had a two-cylinder engine, the working of which led to oscillation beyond the ability of the hull to absorb, leading in turn to the wearing-out of the machinery.

Lord Warden was regarded as being one of the worst rollers in the battle-fleet, second only to her sister, Lord Clyde.

Lord Warden was the heaviest wooden ship ever built by any nationality, largely of course due to the weight of her armour and her engines.

apanderson · Joined: 02 Oct 2007 Posts: 6903 Location: Stirlingshire

Major ANDREW DONALD GEDDES
Who died 15th July 1911 aged 50 years

apanderson · Joined: 02 Oct 2007 Posts: 6903 Location: Stirlingshire

THOMAS G. KEOWN, Ex-C.P.O., Royal Navy died 11th June 1939
Husband of Sidney Keown (nee Burns)

apanderson · Joined: 02 Oct 2007 Posts: 6903 Location: Stirlingshire

JAMES COLE MUNRO KERR, D.S.O.
Born Lenzie 9th March 1880, died Edinburgh 3rd December 1954 age 74
Fourth son of George Munro Kerr and Jessie Elizabeth Kerr (nee Martin)

Admiral WILLIAM MUNRO KERR, K.B.E., C.B.
Died Lymington, Hants, October 1959
Third son of George Munro Kerr and Jessie Elizabeth Kerr (nee Martin)

apanderson · Joined: 02 Oct 2007 Posts: 6903 Location: Stirlingshire

Captain JOHN LEASK, Merchant Navy died at Gronstadt, Russia aged 42
Husband of MAY JESSIE INSKTER

apanderson · Joined: 02 Oct 2007 Posts: 6903 Location: Stirlingshire

DONALD GUNN MACKAY (Late 26th Cameronians)
Died at 5 Kilsyth Road, 6th May 1914 aged 65 years
Husband of Christina Kirk Donald

apanderson · Joined: 02 Oct 2007 Posts: 6903 Location: Stirlingshire

Pte. DAVID BULLOCH McLELLAN, A. & S. H., died 3rd August 1923 aged 29 years

No. 1779 Pte. NEIL HAGGERTY, R.A.M.C., died 23rd May 1925 aged 32 years

Around the emblem at the top of the stone (which I didn't notice at the time) it says 'Kirkintilloch and District Ex-Service Men's Club'.

apanderson · Joined: 02 Oct 2007 Posts: 6903 Location: Stirlingshire

C. E. S. PARKER, Lt. Col. Black Watch, Royal Highlanders
Born 1843, died 1895 (age 52)

apanderson · Joined: 02 Oct 2007 Posts: 6903 Location: Stirlingshire

Col. DAVID ELDER REID, D.S.O., of Gympie, Queensland
Who died there 25th October 1930 aged 65 years
Son of William Reid, Glenhead, Lenzie and Margaret Reid (nee Elder)

wallacewb · Joined: 29 Oct 2008 Posts: 1

The stone you have here from the 'Auld Aisle' is that of the family of James Graham of Kirkintilloch.

James had served earlier in the war in the A.S.C., had been slightly wounded and then released from service. He was then employed in some form of ammunitions work. Follwing the German offensive in early 1918, he was recalled to the HLI.

I have no information on Joseph Graham but as far as I am aware they were not related.

kinnethmont · Joined: 25 Mar 2008 Posts: 121 Location: aberdeenshire

Name: SMITH, JOHN
Initials: J
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Scots Guards
Unit Text: 2nd Bn.
Date of Death: 25/11/1917
Service No: 14919
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 2.
Memorial: CAMBRAI MEMORIAL, LOUVERVAL
_________________
Jim

If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.