Glasgow 1914-18 War dead roll of honour

karakum5c



Joined: 18/03/2008
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Message Posted:
04/11/2011 21:45

For any of you out there like me tracing their ancestry there is a new free web site as of today which lists all those Glaswegians who fell in the Great War.



The web site is http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/scottishmilitary it contains the home addresses of those who fell which is very helpfull and is very moving to look at.



My own great uncle was one of them dying on the 13/11/1916 on the Somme with the 51st Highland Division marching towards the German lines through the early morning mist in their kilts with the sound of the pipes, 600 hundred dying before breakfast.

vonny


Joined: 25/06/2009
Posts: 476

Message Posted:
04/11/2011 22:14

I too,like to trace my ancesters and got back to 1742, quite a few were killed in WW1.,one of them ,Walter Mighton,aged only 20,was on his way to war when he was killed along with many in the Gretna train crash in 1915 . http://www.ww1daleboys.com/ww1.htm

ang1706


Joined: 28/01/2009
Posts: 570

Message Posted:
05/11/2011 13:38

What a great and interesting post.



My Great Grandad was last seen alive at Maryhill Barracks then reported dead in Ypres a few days later, still a mystery as Air Travel had not started then!

aussiejock



Joined: 06/10/2010
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Message Posted:
05/11/2011 19:38

Scotland lost over 160.000 men in the first world war, what a loss,





Robert

Bilko


Joined: 11/03/2008
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Message Posted:
06/11/2011 00:12

1.8 million British & Commonwealth troops fell in The Great (sic) War - the war to end all wars!

850 from my regiment, The Welsh Guards, formed 1915. (First CO Col Murray Thriepland - Scots Guards)



Lest We Forget - The Old British Cemetery Kyrenia - Remembrance Service commences at 12.30 PM Sunday

13th November in Memory of all the British Service People who paid the ultimate price whilst serving the Crown since 1914, including 371 lost during the 'Cyprus Emergency' 1955-59.



Wear your Poppy with pride!

No1Doyen


Joined: 04/07/2008
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Message Posted:
06/11/2011 00:17

Proud to be British!