WILLIAM NEAVES - S\40818 Private

1/4th Battalion Gordon Highlanders. Formerly of the Lovat Scouts and Cameron Highlanders

BORN: About 1895

P.O.B: Kirkintilloch.

ENLISTED: Glasgow.

PARENTS: Mr. William and Mrs. Martha Lamb Neaves,

Gartshore Home Farm (Easterton), Kirkintilloch

Killed in action 23rd April 1917

INTERRED - Browns Copse Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France.

REF - II. F. 21.

Kirkintilloch Herald 16th May 1917

Mr. William Neaves, grieve at Gartshore Home Farm, has received word from a chaplain of the Gordon Highlanders, that his son, Pte. Wm. Neaves of that regiment, was killed on 23rd April. Pte. Neaves was about 22 years of age, and originally enlisted in the Lovat Scouts, being afterwards transferred to the Cameron Highlanders, and later to the Gordons. Before enlisting he worked under his father at Gartshore Farm.

ARCHIBALD NEWLANDS - 9959 Private

5th Battalion Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)

P.O.B: Kirkintilloch.

ENLISTED: Glasgow.

Killed in action 19th May 1916

INTERRED - Chambrin Churchyard Extension, Pas de Calais, France.

REF - N. 34.

NO FURTHER INFORMATION AVAILABLE TO DATE

GEORGE NUGENT - 3263 Private

'B' Coy. 1\9th Battalion A.&.S.H.

BORN: About 1888

ENLISTED: Kirkintilloch.

FATHER: Mr. George Nugent, Eastside, Kirkintilloch.

WIFE: Mrs. Jeannie Nugent, Main Street, Milton, Ontario, Canada.

Killed in action 24th May 1915 - Neuve Chapelle

COMMEMORATED - Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Ieper, West Vlaanderen, Belgium.

Panel 42 and 44

JOHN NUGENT - 2975 Private

'B' Coy. 1\9th battalion A.&.S.H.

ENLISTED: Kirkintilloch.

FATHER: Mr. George Nugent, Eastside, Kirkintilloch.

Killed in action 24th May 1915 - Neuve Chapelle

COMMEMORATED - Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Ieper, West Vlaanderen, Belgium

Panel 42 and 44.

Kirkintilloch Herald 23rd June 1915

Anxiety is felt as to the fate of the brothers Nugent, George and John, both of whom are in the local company of Territorials. Nothing has been heard of them for the last four or five weeks, and prior to that they were writing frequently. Inquiries made at the Records Office at Perth elicit the fact that nothing is known of them there. Private Ralston, also of 'B' Company, writing home, says that when the regiment was assailed by the poisonous gas the brothers were together, but he had not heard of them since, while another Territorial says that George was with him on that occasion. The writer says he fell into a ditch and thus escaped the effects of the gas, and when he recovered he saw no trace of Nugent.

Kirkintilloch Herald 12th January 1916

Mr. George Nugent, Eastside, has received a notification from the War Office headed - " To the relatives of deceased soldiers," to the effect that the separation allowance in respect of his son John will soon be discontinued. Privates John and George Nugent, brothers, were in the Kirkintilloch Coy. of the 9th A.&.S.H. when war broke out, and immediately mobilised. They went over to France with the Battalion in February of last year, and took part in the battle of Neuve Chapelle. They have ben reported as missing ever since, and the notification now received presumes John to be dead.

EDWARD O'DONNELL - 303354 Private

1\8th Battalion A.&.S.H.

P.O.B: Campsie.

ENLISTED: Kirkintilloch.

Died of Wounds 3th May 1918

INTERRED - Berlin South Western Cemetery, Brandenberg, Germany.

REF. XI. A. 6.

NO FURTHER INFORMATION AVAILABLE TO DATE

CHARLES OLIVER - S\40663 Private

10th Battalion A.&.S.H.

ENLISTED: Kirkintilloch.

WIFE: Mrs. Margaret Fleming Oliver, Fauldhead Cottages, Lenzie

Killed in action 6th April 1917

COMMEMORATED - Arras Memorial, Paas de Calais, France. Bay 9.

Kirkintilloch Herald 9th May 1917

DEATH ON SERVICE

OLIVER.- Killed in action on 6th April, Private Charles Oliver, beloved husband of Margaret Fleming,

Fauldhead Cottages, Lenzie, and youngest son of Mrs. Oliver, Wartle, Aberdeenshire. - Deeply regretted.

JOHN PARKER - 325796 Private

14th Battalion A.&.S.H.

BORN: About 1897.

ENLISTED: Kirkintilloch.

FATHER: Mr Parker, Gallowhill, Kirkintilloch.

Killed in action 26th November 1917 - France

COMMEMORATED - Cambrai Memorial, Louverval, Nord, France. Panel 10.

Kirkintilloch Herald 19th December 1917

Mr. Parker, residing at Gallowhill, Kirkintilloch, received official intimation from the War Office on Monday night that his son, Private John Parker, A. &.S.H., had been killed in action in France between the 23rd and 26th of November. Deceased was 20 years of age, and enlisted 28motns ago. He had been in the fighting line 21 months. Prior to enlisting he was employed with Mr. R. Stevenson, contractor, Lenzie. An elder brother is serving in France as a Gunner.

JAMES WALTER PATERSON - S\ 21773 Lance Corporal

2nd Battalion Seaforth Highlanders - Formerly S\10512 Black Watch

BORN: About 1894.

P.O.B: Dunoon.

ENLISTED: Glasgow.

PARENTS: Mr. James and Mrs. Jeannie Buchanan Paterson,

23 Onslow Drive, Dennistoun, Glasgow.

Killed in action 23rd December 1917 - France

INTERRED - Monchy British Cemetery, Monchy-Le-Preux, Pas de Calais, France.

REF - II. B. 2.

Kirkintilloch Herald January 1918

Word has been received that Lance-Corporal James W. Paterson, Seaforth Highlanders, was killed in action in France on 23rd December. He was twenty-four years of age, and was the only son of Mr. Paterson, who resided for some years in Lenzie, taking an active interest in the Bowling Club there, but who a year or two ago removed to the Dennistoun district of Glasgow.

WILLIAM PATERSON - 38608 Private

13th Battalion Royal Scots

BORN: About 1898.

P.O.B: Edinburgh.

ENLISTED: Kirkintilloch.

FATHER: Mr. James Paterson. 12 Burnbank Terrace, Lenzie.

Killed in action 23rd April 1917

COMMEMORATED - Arras Memorial, Pas de Calais, France. Bay 1 and 2.

Kirkintilloch Herald 23 May 1917

Mr James Paterson, railwayman, residing at Burnbank Terrace, has received word that his son, Pte. Wm. Paterson, Royal scots, has been killed. Deceased was for a time an apprentice joiner with Mr. Turnbull, but later entered the railway service, and was employed at Lenzie. He was 19 years of age, and had only been five or six months in the Army

WILLIAM PATTERSON - Private

Canadians

I have obtained information from Keith R. Wood - Canadian Engineers Training Depot concerning four different Sevicemen weho were part of the Canadian Contingent and who shared the name - William Paterson but am unable to determine which one has Kirkintilloch roots. I have decided to include all of the information supplied by Keith.

643032 Private William Patterson Died in Canada April 20th 1918.

With 157Btn. (Barrie, Ontario)

Buried: Sudbury (Eyre) Cemetery, Sudbury, Ontario.

2005603 Sapper William Edward Patterson Died of disease January 17th 1919.

Canadian Engineers Training Depot.

Buried Montreal (Mount Royal) Cemetery, Quebec.

291583 Private William Ellas Patterson - Killed in action April 10th 1917

1st Canadian Mounted Rifles

Aged 29

Ex 222 Btn.( Winnipeg, Manatoba)

Buried: Canadian Cemetery No.2, Neuville-St. Vaast.

102777 Private William James Patterson - Died of disease October 25th 1918.

BORN: Ireland.

Ex 67th Btn. (Western Scots) British Columbia.

From 67th Nominal Roll:

Next of Kin - Mrs. Sarah Patterson, 56 Hillside Ave., Victoria B.C.

Buried: Bucuoy Road Cemetery,, Ficheux.

NO FURTHER INFORMATION AVAILABLE TO DATE

THOMAS H. PEDEN - 26080 Private

Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)

BORN: About 1886.

P.O.B: Galashiels, Selkirkishire, Scotland.

FATHER: Mr. Peter Peden.

WIFE: Mrs. Grace Peden, 3 Thistle Street, Kirkintilloch.

Killed in action 3rd March 1919

INTERRED - Auld Aisle Cemetery, Kirkintilloch, Dunbartonshire, Scotland.

REF - A. B2. 577.

NO FURTHER INFORMATION AVAILABLE TO DATE

JOHN PERRIE - 2121 Private

"D" Company 1\9th Battalion A.&.S.H.

BORN: About 1890

P.O.B: Slamannan, Stirlingshire.

ENLISTED: Kirkintilloch.

WIFE: Mrs. Margaret Perrie, 5 Kerr Street, Kirkintilloch.

Died of wounds 28th April 1915

INTERRED - Boulogne Eastern Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France.

REF - VIII A. 34.

Kirkintilloch Herald 19th May 1915

On Saturday morning Mrs. Perrie, who resides at 13 Freeland Place, got the sad intelligence from the War Office that her husband, Private John Perrie, "D" Company, 9th A.&.S.H., who was wounded on the 24th April, had died four days later in hospital. The cause of death is briefly stated in the circular as follows: - "Legs amputated; gas gangrene." On the 4th inst. Mrs. Perrie received a letter from Dr. Armstrong, dated 24th April:- I am very sorry to have to tell you that your husband was severely wounded this morning in his left leg and foot. He was caught in his dug-out by a shell during a very severe engagement, but is doing as well as could be expected. He has done splendid work out here. I am sending him to hospital as soon as the ambulance can get near. I am sure everything will be done for him." Private Perrie is one of the Territorials who went to Bedford early in August. Private Perrie, who was a miner, along with several other Kirkintilloch men, had been drafted into the sapper section of the Royal Engineers.

ROBERT PHILIP - 40666 Lance Corporal

17th Battalion Royal Scots - Formerly 6335 5th Reserve Cavalry Regiment

P.O.B: Falkirk.

ENLISTED: Kirkintilloch.

Killed in action 25th October 1917

NO FURTHER INFORMATION AVAILABLE TO DATE

MALCOLM POLLOCK - 125743 Gunner

'B' Battery, 162 Brigade, Royal Field Artillery

BORN: About 1892

P.O.B: Kirkintilloch.

ENLISTED: Kirkintilloch

PARENTS: Mr. Robert and Mrs. Agnes Pollock, Broomhill Cottages, Kirkintilloch.

Died of wounds 31st October 1916 - The Battle of the Somme

INTERRED - Warlincourt Halte British Cemetery, Saulty, Pas de Calais, France.

REF - III. D. 14.

Kirkintilloch Herald 13th January 1917

The following appears in the South U.F. Church Supplement this month:- Some time ago news was received by Mr. and Mrs. Robert Pollock that their eldest son, Malcolm, had died from wounds received at the battle of the Somme. This is the fourth loss the congregation has sustained in the war. Malcolm Pollock bore a name that is honoured among us. Under a naturally quiet exterior, he hid the great quality of enterprise, and during his short life he had a varied experience. On leaving Lenzie Academy he entered the service of the Commercial Bank of Scotland in Kirkintilloch, and having served his apprenticeship there with complete satisfaction to his employers he decided to go to Canada. For five years he pursued the banking profession there, during which time he was stationed in various parts of the Dominion. When war broke out he gave up all private ambition in regard to his profession, and at once offered himself for the Army. He was twice rejected on account of his eyesight, but after returning to this country he was accepted for the Royal Field Artillery in February 1916. In less than six months he was included in a draft for France. He took his part in the great offensive on the Somme, and in the discharge of his duty there was severely wounded. Death followed quickly. The warm sympathy of the congregation goes out to his family circle.

JOHN PORTEOUS - S\16292 Lance-Corporal

2nd Battalion A.&.S.H.

BORN: About 1895.

P.O.B: Kirkintilloch.

ENLISTED: Stirling.

FATHER: Mr. John Porteous, 11 Cowgate, Kirkintilloch

Died of wounds 30th September 1918 - France

INTERRED - Thilloy Road Cemetery, Beaulencourt, Pas de Calais, France.

REF - E37.

Kirkintilloch Herald 9th October 1918

Mr. John Porteous, shoemaker, 11 Cowgate, received a letter on Thursday informing him that his third son, Corpl. John Porteous, A. &.S.H., had died from wounds in a casualty clearing station in France. A later note from a nurse states that he was brought to the station on Sunday evening, 29th September, badly wounded in the legs, thighs, and lower part of the body, and that he died on the following morning from gas gangrene after an operation. Corpl. Porteous, before entering the Army, was a shoemaker with his father, and carried on the branch shop in Townhead. He was 23 years of age. Mr. Porteous has other two sons on active service, one being in Palestine, and the other, who was sent to England suffering from shell shock, being still stationed there, but is presently home on furlough. The deceased soldier had been in the Army for two years and four months, and in France for two years.

Note

Army records have rank as Lance-Corporal.

JAMES COOPER QUAIL - Lieutenant

1st Canadian Mounted Rifles (Saskatchewan Regiment)

BORN: Around 1889.

WIFE: Mrs. Isabel Mclennan Quail, Moosejaw, Sask., Canada.

MOTHER: Mrs. John Quail, Byres Road, Glasgow.

Killed in action 1st January 1918 - France

INTERRED: St. Patrick's Cemetery, Loos, Pas de Calais, France.

REF - II. A. 18.

Kirkintilloch Herald 6th January 1918

Mrs. John Quail, residing at Byres Road, Glasgow, has received intimation that her third son, Liuet. James Quail, Canadian Mounted Rifles, was killed in action in France on 1st January. The deceased officer was a well known Kirkintilloch man, son of the late John Quail, music seller, here, with whom he was associated in business. He was an accomplished violinist, and besides pursuing the avocation of teacher of that instrument he was widely identified with music circles in the town, and was frequently engaged as leader of orchestra at local musical functions. He emigrated to Canada about 7 years ago, accompanied by the son of Mr. Lindsay, Lenzie, who also lost his life in the war last summer. Mr Quail settled down in Moosejaw, Sask., where his musical abilities brought him ample occupation. Before enlisting he was with a large musical firm in Moosejaw as a pianoforte tuner. He married in Canada, and leaves there a widow and child. During the course of his training in Canada he rose to the rank of captain, but, as is customary, on going to France, he was reduced to the rank of lieutenant. He came to England last summer, and was visiting friends in Kirkintilloch in early autumn, proceeding to France in November last. He was 30 years of age. His older brother, John, equally well known in the district, is also with the colours.

Kirkintilloch Herald 18th January 1918

DEATH ON SERVICE

QUAIL:- Killed in action, in France, on 1st January, 1918, Lieutenant James Cooper Quail, Canadian Mounted Rifles, in his 30th year, beloved husband of Isabel Mclennan, Moosejaw, Sask., and third son of the late John Quail, Kirkintilloch, and Mrs. Quail, Byres Road, Glasgow.

Thanks to Keith R. Wood for additional information

ANDREW QUEEN - 7584 Bombardier

'D' Battery, 186th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery

BORN: About 1893.

P.O.B: Howwood,

ENLISTED: Kirkintilloch

PARENTS: Mr. and Mrs. Queen, Waterside.

Killed in action 17th August 1917 - France

INTERRED - Vlamteringhe New Military Cemetery, Ieper, West Vlaanderen, Belgium.

REF - VII. C. 4.

Kirkintilloch Herald 5th September 1917

WATERSIDE WOMAN'S PREMONITION

Word has been received by his parents at Waterside that Bombardier Andrew McQueen, R.F.A., has been killed, in France, while serving his gun. Major Gilbert Heron, in a letter dated 24th August, says :- "Will you accept my sincere sympathy in your sad loss. Your son was one of my best gunners, and had just been promoted to Bombardier. He always showed such keenness and intelligent interest in his duties that if he had been spared I am sure he would have got on very quickly. We all felt his loss very much, and he was a great favourite with all his comrades. I trust you will derive some consolation in your great sorrow from the fact that your son died for his country at his gun." As a gunner, deceased had served in the Dardanelles for nine months, and had been nineteen months in France. For a time he was in hospital in Malta, with a breakdown in health, but he recovered, and came home for a brief spell. He was twenty-four years of age, and had been three years in the Army, before which he was employed as a miner at Wester Gartshore Colliery. In connection with his death, his mother had a strange experience. The night before the word arrived she dreamed she had been speaking to her son, and that she had seen him killed. She told of her dream to the household before the fatal word was received, and had expressed her fear for her son's safety.

Notes

Kirkintilloch Herald mistakenly gives surname as McQueen.

His Mother - Catherine Darling, married Mr. William Surgeon.

Army records give place of birth as Haywood - could it be Howwood ?

ROBERT QUEEN - Private

2nd Battalion Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)

BORN: About 1895.

PARENTS: Mr. and Mrs. John Queen, 44 Eastside, Kirkintilloch.

Died of Malarial Fever 16th November 1918 - Palestine.

INTERRED - Beirut War Cemetery, Beirut, Lebanese Republic.

REF - 164.

Kirkintilloch Herald 27th November 1918

Word has now come to hand that Private Robert Queen, Black Watch, son of Mr. John Queen, miner, Eastside, reported in our columns last week as being dangerously ill with malarial fever, succumbed to the attack on 16th November, two days before the wire telling of his illness was received. Private Queen had put in two years service in Mesopotamia, and was afterwards for nine months in France, subsequently proceeding to Palestine. He took part in the capture of Baghdad, when he was presented by General Wauchope with a medal for conspicuous gallantry. He was in his twenty-third year, and before enlisting four years ago was employed as a miner at Auchereoch Colliery.

HUGH RAE - S\1873 Sergeant

10th Battalion A.&.S.H.

BORN: About 1880.

P.O.B. Kirkintilloch.

ENLISTED: Stirling.

PARENTS: Mr. John and Mrs. Helen Rae, Lennoxtown, Stirlingshire, Scotland.

WIFE: Mrs. Isabella Dunlop Rae, 8 Rose Street, Kirkintilloch.

Killed in action 25th September 1915

COMMEMORATED - Loos Memorial, Pas de Calais, France. Panel 125 to 127.

Kirkintilloch Herald 4th October 1916

Sergeant Hugh Rae, of the 10th A.&.S. H., has been posted as missing since 25th September last year, and official intimation has now been received that he was killed on that date. Sergeant Rae was an old soldier, and had eighteen years service. He was through the Sudan campaign, and has the Khartoum and Atbara medals. He was in the Dunbartonshire National Reserves at the outbreak of the present war, and at once volunteered for active service. He was employed at the Nickel Works, resided at 54 Townhead, and was well known in the town and Lennoxtown, to which place he belonged, and where several members of his family reside. He leaves a widow and five children.

"His life has been laid down

'Mid shot and shell,

Glad in the thought that

He has lived it well -

It is the deeds and

Not the days that tell."

Note

Served in the Soudan and South African campaigns

ALLAN RAMSAY - 13490 Sergeant

15th Battalion Highland Light Infantry

BORN: Glasgow.

ENLISTED: Glasgow.

WIFE: Mrs. Ramsay, Cowgate, Kirkintilloch.

Killed in action 3rd July 1916.

COMMEMORATED - Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France. PIer and Face 15C.

Kirkintilloch Herald 26th July 1917

Mrs. Ramsay, Cowgate, has received official confirmation of the death of her husband Sergt. Allan Ramsay, 15th H.L.I., which took place about the beginning of the month. Ramsay was employed on the Glasgow Corporation tramways, and at the time of his enlisting resided in Springburn. His wife has since come out to Kirkintilloch (where she belongs) with her three children.

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