Both men, serving with the 5th Batallion Cameron HIghlanders, Second Lieutenant Hector McLean Lee, and Second Lieutenant Thomas Wright Cameron (son of Robert and Mary Hart Cameron, 36 Polworth Gardens, Edinburgh), are commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, Pier and Face 15B, France.

GLASGOW HERALD
21 APRIL 1869

DEATH - PUNTON

At 25 Montgomerie Street, Ardrossan, on the 19th instant, Miss Ann Punton, sometime at Saltcoats, and daughter of the late Rev. Mr Punton, Hamilton.

GLASGOW HERALD
21 APRIL 1866

BANKRUPTCY – SEQUESTRATION

John Jameson, grocer and wine merchant in Ardrossan.

Creditors to meet in the Corn Exchange Sale Rooms, Kilmarnock, 27th April at half-past twelve o’clock.

GLASGOW HERALD 21 APRIL 1851 MINISTER FOR NEW ARDROSSAN CHURCH The Presbytery of Irvine met at Irvine, pro re nata, on Tuesday last. The Moderator, Mr Bryce, said that he was the first of the requisitioners to the Moderator to call this meeting, the object of which was explained in the circular addr...

GLASGOW HERALD
21 APRIL 1851

VESSEL SPOKEN WITH

KERELAW, of Ardrossan, Wilson, from Clyde for Ceylon and Madras, 28th February, latitude 5N, all well.

GLASGOW HERALD 21 APRIL 1845 LAUNCH OF THE FIRE FLY We understand that a new iron steamer, for the Ardrossan and Belfast trade, in connection with the Ayrshire Railway, is to be launched from the building yard of Messrs Tod & McGregor, Glasgow, tomorrow, about one o’clock. She is a beautiful ves...

GLASGOW HERALD
21 APRIL 1924

IN MEMORIAM - KERR

Lost at sea, through enemy action, on 20th April, 1918, John Alexander Cameron Kerr, third dearly loved son of Mrs Kerr, 326 West Princes Street, Glasgow, late of Morven, South Beach, Saltcoats.

GLASGOW HERALD
21 APRIL 1913

ARDROSSAN AND SALTCOATS GOLF CLUB

Spring Competition for Lord Eglinton’s Cup and two club prizes.

Result – George McGregor, (4) 87; P. Bradie, (scratch) 89; G. Sinclair, (scratch) 90; J. A. Chrystie, (5) 90.

GLASGOW HERALD
21 APRIL 1913

DEATH - BRYCE

At Garnet, Caledonia Road, Saltcoats, on 20th instant, Elizabeth Fulton, widow of James Bryce, Paisley.

GLASGOW HERALD
21 APRIL 1910

BIRTH - FULTON

At Argyle Road, Saltcoats, on the 19th instant, the wife of Alexander Fulton; a son.

GLASGOW HERALD 21 APRIL 1911 KILWINNING AND STEVENSTON CATTLE SHOW The annual show of cattle and horses was held at Meadowbank, Kilwinning, in stormy weather. In the afternoon the conditions improved considerably, and there was a record attendance of visitors. This year the society had added conside...

Someone I know was working at the Turnberry Hotel when Pavarotti was staying there in 1992, prior to a performance in Glasgow, and had the privilege of hearing the great man rehearsing. To hear him at close-quarters, he said, was an experience never to be forgotten.