World War 1 casualties update

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Re: World War 1 casualties update

by morag » Mon Aug 15, 2016 4:16 am

I may have posted before..forgive me if so. My grampa went down to register the birth of his son, enlisted. His son didn't know him some years later when he returned and chapped the door. :lol: He brought lightbulbs, unknown in Ayrshire then and threatened to blow them all up' with them if they weren't quiet. He was quite a character, loved him to bits. (and he spoiled me!) :lol:

Re: World War 1 casualties update

by irejim9 » Mon Aug 15, 2016 3:15 am

Previously I had never gone into "On this Day" but had time one day and have been reading all the posts over weeks now. I find it very interesting and a snapshot of live all those years ago. Also I think about all the telegrams coming to the towns and the mothers and families dreading the day. It must have been devastating with so many lives lost in a short space of time.
Thank you to the contributors especially Penny Tray, John Donnelly and geomcintyre fantastic research.

Re: World War 1 casualties update

by sweet caroline » Mon Jun 27, 2016 2:25 pm

To mark the Somme all military records on findmypast are free until 11.59pm on Monday 4 July .

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Re: World War 1 casualties update

by sweet caroline » Tue Jun 07, 2016 1:48 pm

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Re: World War 1 casualties update

by sweet caroline » Fri May 08, 2015 1:35 pm

great grandparents x3 mine. :D

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Edit- their son James married to Elizabeth Oliver.

James Fulton
Birth 1800 in Kilmaurs Death 21 Dec.1854 in Napoleon St Collingwood, Victoria


Elizabeth Oliver
Birth 14 FEB 1808 in KILWINNING Ayrshire Scotland(Largs) Death 12 August 1889 in Lilydale, Victoria, Australia
Son-

Name
Andw Fulton
Father
Jas
Mother
Elizth Oliver
Birth
abt 1840
Death
1894 - Burwood, Victoria - Age: 54
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Re: World War 1 casualties update

by Jim McCreadie » Fri May 08, 2015 1:16 pm

Aaaaaw, now I've got more folk to research - thank you. :hi:

Re: World War 1 casualties update

by sweet caroline » Fri May 08, 2015 12:08 pm

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Great Great Grandson of James Fulton and Susan Lambie

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Re: World War 1 casualties update

by Jim McCreadie » Fri May 08, 2015 9:23 am

S/7306 L/Cpl. Robert SIM, 10th Bn. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. KIA 27 Jul 1915. Age 22 Years. Son of Thomas and Margaret (m.s. McCREADIE) SIM, 23 Garven Terrace, Stevenston.
Commemorated Panel 42, Le Touret Memorial, Pas de Calais, France. No known grave.

Re: World War 1 casualties update

by 5eulbdog7 » Fri Oct 03, 2014 9:40 pm

That war was so devastating for folk. The papers would report great advances and that the Hun was on the run. Yet when the telegrams starting to arrive people found out it was lies. I remember the grief my grannie felt for her brother, blown to bits in the first line of trenches. No body, no grave never to be seen again just a fond memory. His name is inscribed on the Stevenston war memorial, William Conway 1915.

Re: World War 1 casualties update

by madge » Thu Apr 03, 2014 9:51 pm

I recently did a search on my grandfather David Grant who was killed in WW1. His name appears on Kilwinning War
Memorial also in A & S Herald in August 1915 along with a photograph. He was wounded at Gallipoli on 12July 1915
and died in Alexandria on 17 August 1915

He is buried in Alexandria (Chatby) Military War Memorial plot K11

He was in the Royal Scots a Fusiliers no 8583 and had been a miner with Baird & Co in Kilwinning

My grandmother was widowed at 24 with a baby of 6 months old





Madge

Re: World War 1 casualties update

by sweet caroline » Thu Apr 03, 2014 11:26 am

A military man before the war .
1911 Census
Name: Allan Dunsmore
Age in 1911: 26
Estimated birth year: abt 1885
Birth Place: Saltcoats, Ayrshire
County/Island: Military
Country: England
Military Unit: 2nd Dorset Regt
Registration District Number: 641
ED, institution, or vessel: Ceylon and India

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Edit- 1891
Name: Allan Dunsmore
Age: 7
Estimated birth year: abt 1884
Relationship: Son
Father's Name: John Dunsmore
Mother's name: Eliz Dunsmore
Gender: Male
Where born: Saltcoats, Ayrshire
Registration Number: 615
Registration district: Stevenston
Civil Parish: Stevenston
Town: Saltcoats
County: Ayrshire
Address: 5 Harbour St
Brother David c 1886 Ardrossan
Sister Martha c1886 married Peter Angus

Re: World War 1 casualties update

by Penny Tray » Wed Apr 02, 2014 11:33 pm

chinditt wrote:Hi

I checked the casualty lists in the Ardrossan & Saltcoats Herald without success as I would like to find any photographs that may exist.
Al
I'm maybe misunderstanding you but there are a number of Ardrossan and Saltcoats Herald intimations through 1914/1915/1916 re an Allan Dunsmore, intimating his death at Station Hotel, Bombay - grandson of David McAllister of Stevenston - sister of Mrs P Angus, 5 Victoria Road, Saltcoats - brother of David - and nephew of Agnes.

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