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You should be very proud of this young man. The date at the bottom is when he when to France.

http://imgur.com/a/JGarR
He was here in 1st.Nov.1916
http://www.map-france.com/Auchonvillers-80560/
on the 11th.they were at Mailly Wood (West)then the Uxbridge Trenches.
http://www.greatwar.co.uk/places/somme- ... emains.htm
http://www.greatwar.co.uk/battles/index ... offensives
http://www.longlongtrail.co.uk/battles/ ... omme-1918/
SC

Indeed he should,a great soldier a hero who gave his life for our freedom

As conscription wasn't introduced till 1916 like a lot of young men he was a volunteer. I think its possible someone made a genuine mistake with the date on the Stevenston war memorial. Instead of 1915 it should be 1918. Thanks guys for all your help and kind words.

Manbear thanks for your message. Years ago I found that headstone in Bangor cemetery and couldn't understand why it is inscribed that he was killed in 1918.I thought about contacting the war graves commission about the Stevenston war memorial but decided against.

5siamese7 wrote:Manbear thanks for your message. Years ago I found that headstone in Bangor cemetery and couldn't understand why it is inscribed that he was killed in 1918.I thought about contacting the war graves commission about the Stevenston war memorial but decided against.

That's ok what a lot of respect I have for soldiers who were at the Somme and elsewhere in the Great War and every other conflict they are sent to I would have been proud to have a relative like him

Update on Captain John Barbour Orr.

Delighted to discover a link which was staring me in the face.

I’d seen reference to one of Capt Barbour’s brothers, John Boyd Orr, being a medical doctor - it’s wasn’t until I got a note from the SessionClerk at Shettleston Free Church that I discover he was THE Boyd Orr.

Boyd Orr was probably Scotland’s last genuine world-class polymath - umpteen degrees - service with both Army and Navy in wartime - an MP - rector of two universities - Nobel Prize winner - Head of UN Food and Agriculture Organisation - raised to the House of Lords!

I was delighted to receive an email today from the Archives Services department of Glasgow University informing me that they have now added a biographical note on James Barbour Orr to their website - http://www.universitystory.gla.ac.uk/ww ... y/?id=4570

Centenary of the death of Rev Cpt James Barbour Orr

I’m delighted to receive the news that on the 100th anniversary of his sacrifice James Orr’s sacrifice will be commemorated by his old university.

The chaplain of Glasgow University, the Reverend Stuart MacQuarrie, has worked with colleagues to ensure that a short biography of Captain Orr is now on the University’s webpages. 

Said Stuart - “We will commemorate Captain Orr’s life on the centenary of his death at 09.00 am in the University Chapel on 31st July when the information on the Roll of Honour will be read out. We will then lay a poppy cross in his honour at the Memorial Garden adjacent to the Commemorative Gates on University Avenue. Captain Orr’s name will be added to the Chapel Memorial Plaques with those of several others who for various reasons were not included when the Chapel was opened in 1929.”