World War I Gallery
Forum rules
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.
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.
-
- Mega Heid Poster
- Posts: 19335
- Joined: Thu Jan 08, 2009 2:46 pm
Re: World War I Gallery
Private William Irvine, (29), died from wounds received in action; husband of Annie Irvine, and father of two children, 77 Kilmahew Street, Ardrossan: -
Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.
-
- Mega Heid Poster
- Posts: 19335
- Joined: Thu Jan 08, 2009 2:46 pm
Re: World War I Gallery
Private John Johnstone, (25), was killed in action; son of Mr and Mrs A. Johnstone, Glenhead Farm, Ardrossan: -
Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.
-
- Mega Heid Poster
- Posts: 19335
- Joined: Thu Jan 08, 2009 2:46 pm
Re: World War I Gallery
Private Andrew Kean, (26), died of wounds received in action; son of Mr Andrew and Mrs Isabella Kean, 72 Glasgow Street, Ardrossan: -
Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.
-
- Mega Heid Poster
- Posts: 19335
- Joined: Thu Jan 08, 2009 2:46 pm
Re: World War I Gallery
Private Robert Keegans was killed in action; son of Mr James and Mrs Agnes Reid Keegans, Harbour Street, Saltcoats: -
Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.
-
- Mega Heid Poster
- Posts: 19335
- Joined: Thu Jan 08, 2009 2:46 pm
Re: World War I Gallery
Private George Wilson Kelly, (31) was killed in action; son of Mrs Elizabeth Rafferty (formerly Kelly), 145 New Street, Stevenston: -
Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.
-
- Mega Heid Poster
- Posts: 19335
- Joined: Thu Jan 08, 2009 2:46 pm
Re: World War I Gallery
Staff Nurse Mary Thomson Kerr, (31), died on service of pneumonia contracted on duty at 2nd General Hospital, Craigleith, Edinburgh- buried at Ardrossan Cemetery; daughter of Annie Kerr, and the late Alexander Kerr, a native of Ardrossan, and himself buried at Ardrossan Cemetery: -
Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.
-
- Mega Heid Poster
- Posts: 19335
- Joined: Thu Jan 08, 2009 2:46 pm
Re: World War I Gallery
Captain Douglas Reid Kinnier, DSC, born at Saltcoats, was a distinguished British seaman and Temporary Lieutenant in the Royal Naval Reserve, who died in hospital on 24 December, 1916, having undergone surgery for an ulcer; husband of Minnie Agnes Martin Kinnier, and father of Douglas, Hugh, Annan, Gertrude, and Keith: -
Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.
-
- Mega Heid Poster
- Posts: 19335
- Joined: Thu Jan 08, 2009 2:46 pm
Re: World War I Gallery
Acting Corporal William Leonard, died of wounds received in action; huband of Mrs Leonard, 21 Kilmahew Street, Ardrossan: -
Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.
-
- Mega Heid Poster
- Posts: 19335
- Joined: Thu Jan 08, 2009 2:46 pm
Re: World War I Gallery
Company Sergeant Major Ritchie Brown Lockhart, (28), died on service of beriberi; son of Mr John and Mrs A. Lockhart, 6 Robertson Crescent, Saltcoats: -
Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.
Re: World War I Gallery
I might have heard of beriberi before watching an old war film.Penny Tray wrote: ↑Sun Apr 18, 2021 8:03 am Company Sergeant Major Ritchie Brown Lockhart, (28), died on service of beriberi; son of Mr John and Mrs A. Lockhart, 6 Robertson Crescent, Saltcoats: -
Beri Beri Many Far East Prisoners of War suffered from Beriberi because of their inadequate diet. Beriberi is a disease caused by a deficiency of thiamine (vitamin B1) that affects many systems of the body including the muscles, heart, nerves and digestive system.
www.cofepow.org.uk/med-info/beri-beri
-
- Mega Heid Poster
- Posts: 19335
- Joined: Thu Jan 08, 2009 2:46 pm
Re: World War I Gallery
Private Michael Logan was killed in action; son of Mr William and Mrs Christina Love Logan, Auchenharvie Cottages, Stevenston: -
Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.
-
- Mega Heid Poster
- Posts: 19335
- Joined: Thu Jan 08, 2009 2:46 pm
Re: World War I Gallery
Lance Corporal Bryce McWhilton Longmuir, (18), was killed in action; son of Mr Bryce and Mrs Margaret Longmuir, 107 Argyle Road, Saltcoats: -
Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.