World War I Gallery
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Post photographs here, which depict places or people in or from the three towns. You are welcome to upload direct from your computer to this album.
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Private Hugh Brown Wallace died on service in a military hospital after a short illness; son of Archibald and Elizabeth Wallace, 54 Caledonia Road, Saltcoats: -
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Private James Wallace died in hospital from a stomach wound received in action; son of Mr Thomas and Mrs Wallace, 12 Gladstone Road, Saltcoats: -
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Lance Corporal James Anderson Wallace, (19) was killed in action; son of Mr Robert and Mrs Agnes Wallace, 15 Limekiln Road, Stevenston; and brother of Robert, David, William, Adam, Joseph, and Nellie: -
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Private George Watt, (34), was killed in action; husband of Annie Watt, Townhead Street, Stevenston, and father of four children: -
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Driver James Dickie Watt, (23), was killed in action; son of Robert and Margaret Watt, The Braes, Saltcoats: -
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Private William Watt died of wounds received in action; brother of Mrs Ritchie, 4 The Braes, Saltcoats: -
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The photograph below refers to a JAMES WHITEHEAD, a name which appears on the WW1 Memorial at Ardrossan, but which isn’t accompanied by any family intimation locally to pinpoint exactly who he was. However, the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, and www.naval-history.net both list a Petty Officer James Whitehead, Service No. 1/1853, Clyde Anson Battalion, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, who died at the Gallipoli Campaign on 25 April, 1915, and this link seems likely: -
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Sapper Adam Wilson was killed in action; son of the late Alexander, and Mrs May Wilson, 32 Townhead Street, Stevenston: -
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Private Donald Wilson died of wounds received in action; adopted son of the late Matthew and Elizabeth Wilson, Stevenston; and brother of Mrs Monaghan, Smithfield Terrace, Stevenston: -
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Private William Wright, (23), was killed in action; son of John Morton and Elizabeth Wright, Parkhouse Farm, Ardrossan: -
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Private Thomas Young, (22), was killed in action; son of Alexander and Mary Stewart Young, 39 New Street, Stevenston: -
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Private William Yuille was killed in action; son of John and Jane Yuille, 9 McKellar Avenue, Ardrossan: -
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