I was stumped for a while yesterday by the post-nominal 'Q.A.I.M.N.S.R.' I eventually got it. The solution may come in handy for somebody one day.

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QUEEN ALEXANDRA'S IMPERIAL MILITARY NURSING SERVICE RESERVE

EVENING TIMES 16 FEBRUARY 1965 AWARD FOR RESCUE BID SEAMAN A 35-year-old Ardrossan seaman who went to the rescue of a shipmate has been awarded a Royal Humane Society testimonial on parchment. Able Seaman Stanley Haggart, of Kirkhall Drive, Ardrossan, went to the rescue of another member of the crew...

GLASGOW HERALD 15 FEBRUARY 1954 DEATH – RITCHIE At an infirmary annexe, Glasgow, on 12th February, 1954, the Rev. John Geddes Ritchie, B.D., minister of Stevenston High Kirk, and dearly beloved husband of Eleanor Joan Dickson. GLASGOW HERALD 15 FEBRUARY 1954 DEATH OF REV. JOHN GEDDES RITCHIE The Rev...

GLASGOW HERALD 15 FEBRUARY 1917 GLASGOW FISH FOR COAST TOWNS At a meeting of Saltcoats Town Council, Councillor A. S. Miller, thought an attempt should be made to influence fishers to permit a proportion of their fish to be sold locally. Recently there had been plentiful catches of fish in the firth...

GLASGOW HERALD
15 FEBRUARY 1917

DEATH - DICKSON

At 28 Sidney Street, Saltcoats, on 13th February, James Dickson, aged 72, beloved husband of Jessie, late of Dunn & Company, Glasgow.

GLASGOW HERALD 15 FEBRUARY 1916 BOARD OF TRADE LONG-SERVICE MEDAL On Saturday afternoon, Mr Robert Hastings, Glasgow Street, Ardrossan, was presented with a long-service medal by the Board of Trade for 30 years work in connection with the life-saving apparatus. Provost Chrystie made the presentation...

GLASGOW HERALD
15 FEBRUARY 1915

FOOTBALL – Reserve League

Result: - Clyde, 1; Stevenston United, 0.

Dr. Dow gets a mention in a note I was keeping to post later in the THIS DAY IN HISTORY TOPIC . GLASGOW HERALD 8 SEPTEMBER 1943 SALTCOATS CENTENARY The centenary of Landsborough Church, Saltcoats, has just been celebrated, the Rev. W. B. Hutton, M.A., the senior minister, conducting the services. Th...

GLASGOW HERALD
14 FEBRUARY 1917

PROHIBITION

At a meeting of Ardrossan U.F. Presbytery a resolution was passed demanding prohibition during the war and for the period of demobilisation.

GLASGOW HERALD 14 FEBRUARY 1917 MARRIAGE – McDOWALL and MacMILLAN At the Eglinton Hotel, Ardrossan, on 12th February, by the Rev. R. M. Adamson, M.A., David McDowall, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, to Mary MacClymont, elder daughter of the late Gilbert MacMillan and Mrs MacMillan, Glasgow Street...

GLASGOW HERALD
14 FEBRUARY 1917

BIRTH - McARTHUR

At Elrig, Ardrossan, on the 12th instant, the wife of the Rev. Dugald McArthur, B.D. (Black Watch); a son.

GLASGOW HERALD 13 FEBRUARY 1974 FOUR YEARS FOR PORT GLASGOW KILLING Ian Hargie, a plater, of 69 Marloch Avenue, Port Glasgow, was jailed for four years at the High Court in Glasgow yesterday, after a jury by a majority found him guilty of a reduced charge of culpable homicide. Hargie denied having m...