JOHN EWART DEANS - Lieutenant

H.M.S 'Cumberland', Royal Naval Reserve

BORN: About 1893.

P.O.B. Ichang, China

PARENTS: Rev. William and Mrs. Mina Deans, 34 Esplanade Terrace, Joppa, Portobello,

Midlothian, United Kingdom.#

Died 5th October 1918.

INTERRED - Kirkdale Cemetery, Liverpool, Lancashire, United Kingdom.

REF - VIII. N.C. 1230.

# I think that Rev. deans was at one time the minister of Twechar Church of Scotland

NO FURTHER INFORMATION AVAILABLE TO DATE

AARON DICKENS - 42920 Private

7th (Blythswood) Battalion (Territorial) Highland Light Infantry -

Formerly 32252 Royal Scots Fusiliers

BORN: About 1896.

P.O.B: Kirkintilloch.

ENLISTED: Alexandria, Dunbartonshire, Scotland.

FATHER: Mr. Charles Dickens, Victoria Street, Kirkintilloch.

Killed in action 7th November 1918 - France#

INTERRED - Valenciennes (St. Roch.) Communal Cemetery, Nord, France.

REF - II. D. 8.

Kirkintilloch Herald 27th November 1918

Word was received by Mr. Chas. Dickens, Victoria St, , last week, that his son, Private Aaron Dickens, H.L.I., had been killed in France. A letter from his Captain states that he was killed by shell fire shortly before the cessation of hostilities on Armistice Day, 11th November. Private Dickens, who in civil life was a grocer with Mr. Jas. Aitken, was within a month of twenty-two years of age. He had been in the Army for a year and nine months, and had been seventeen months in the fighting, and been wounded three times. He was home on Furlough in June last, and returned to France on 20th of that month. He was one of three brothers in the Army, all of whom have been wounded. The oldest, who is in the Cameron Highlanders, has been wounded twice, whilst a younger brother, in the Royal Scots, is lying in a Dundee hospital seriously wounded. The deceased soldier was a member of the local Y.M.C.A., and is the last addition to its roll of fallen heroes.

Note

Army and Commonwealth War Graves Commission records have date as 7th.

JAMES Y. DICKSON - 2nd Lieutenant

1\2nd London Regiment.#

BORN: About 1894.

PARENTS: Mr. Thomas J. and Mrs. Jane Dickson , Kirkton House, Hawthorn Avenue, Lenzie.#

Killed in action 15th September 1916 - France

INTERRED - Warlencourt British Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France.

REF - VIII. K. 50

Kirkintilloch Herald 11th October 1916

Mr. Thomas J. Dickson, Kirkton House, Hawthorn avenue, Lenzie, has now received official intimation that his only son, Second lieutenant James Y. Dickson, 1\21st London Regiment, who has been missing for several weeks, was killed on 15th September. Lieut. Dickson was in the office of the Union Bank at Cornhill, London, when war broke out, and he joined the London Scottish. After a year's service in France with that regiment he received a commission, and was transferred to the 1\21st London Regiment, with which he was serving when he met his death. Lieut. Dickson was 22 years of age.

# Commonwealth War Graves Commission has 21st Battalion 1st Surrey Rifles and has address as - 898 Cumbernauld Road, Riddrie, Glasgow.

EDWARD DIFFER - S\40027 Private

10th Battalion A.&.S.H.

BORN: About 1897

ENLISTED: Kirkintilloch.

PARENTS: Mr. Patrick and Mrs Catherine Differ, Burnbrae, Twechar, Dunbartonshire, Scotland.

Killed in action 12th October 1917

COMMEMORATED - Tyne Cot Memorial, Zonnebeke, West Vlaanderen, Belgium.

Panel 141 to 143 and 162

NO FURTHER INFORMATION AVAILABLE TO DATE

WILLIAM DITTY - 275119 Corporal

1\7th Battalion A.&.S.H.

BORN: About 1895.

P.O.B: Twechar, Dunbartonshire.

ENLISTED: Kilsyth, Stirlingshire.

PARENTS: Mr.Frederick and Mrs. Margaret Ditty,

101 Barrhill, Twechar, Dunbartonshire, Scotland.

Killed in action 24th July 1917

INTERRED - La Belle Alliance Cemetery, Ieper, West - Vlaanderen, Belgium.

REF - C. 3.

Kirkintilloch Herald 15th August 1917

Official notification has now been received that Pte. Wm. Ditty, A.&.S.H., a well known Twechar member of the Kilsyth Coy. of Territorials, has been killed on 24th July. He was 22 years of age, and worked as a brusher at Twechar before going to the war.

BEN DOCHERTY - S/2201 Private

A.&.S. H.

BORN: About 1890.

P.O.B. Tollcross, Glasgow, Scotland.

PARENTS: Mr William and Mrs. Margarette Docherty.

Died 3rd February 1919.

INTERRED - St. Peters Roman Catholic Cemetery, Glasgow, United Kingdom.

REF - XIII. 296.

NO FURTHER INFORMATION AVAILABLE TO DATE

JAMES DOCHERTY - 303111 Private

1\8th Battalion A.&.S. H.

BORN: About 1895

ENLISTED: Dumbarton.

MOTHER: Mrs Docherty, 104 Townhead, Kirkintilloch.

Killed in action 9th April 1917 - France

INTERRED - Roclincourt Valley Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France.

REF - I. A. 13.

Kirkintilloch Herald 25th April 1917

An officer of the A.&.S.H. has written Mrs. Docherty, 104 Townhead, informing her that her son, Pte. James Docherty, A.&.S.H., has been killed in France. He was killed instantly, and was buried with full military honours. Pte. Docherty was 22 years of age, and enlisted in the Army 2 years and 9 months ago, when he was working as a miner at Auchengeich. He had been 9 months in France. His father and a younger brother are also in the Army.

EPHRAIM DODDS JNR. - S\40633 Private

2nd Battaliion A.&.S. H.

BORN: About 1889.

ENLISTED: Kirkintilloch.

PARENTS: Mr. Ephriam and Mrs. Mary Dodds, Stoneyetts Cottage, Chryston.

WIFE: Mrs. Jeannie McCutcheon Dodds, 18 Bairds Row, Cuilhill,Bargeddie, Lanarkshire.

Killed in action 24th November 1917

COMMEMORATED - Tyne Cot Memorial, Zonnebeke, West Vlaanderen, Belgium.

REF. - 1917

Kirkintilloch Herald 26th December 1917

Mrs. A. Dodds, Baird Row, Bargeddie, has received official intimation that her husband, Lance-Corporal Ephraim Dodds, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, was killed in action on November 24th. Prior to enlisting Corporal Dodds was a miner at Chryston. He was in his twenty-eighth year and leaves a widow and one child. He was one of four brothers who enlisted.

Notes

Army records give rank as Private.

Previously wounded in April 1917

History of the Kirkintilloch Lodge St. John Kilwinning No. 28 - Mathew Brown.

WILLIAM DODDS - 303328 Private

1\8th Battalion A.&.S. H.

BORN: About 1894.

ENLISTED: Kirkintilloch.

PARENTS: Mr. Ephraim and Mrs. Mary Dodds, Stoneyetts Cottage, Chryston.

Killed in action 19th May 1917 - France #

INTERRED - Browns Copse Cemetery, Roeux, Pas de Calais, France

REF - III. D. 41.

Kirkintilloch Herald 13th June 1917

In our issue of May 5th, 1915, we gave the photos of a Chryston Family who had given themselves to the war. It was that of Mr. Ephraim Dodds, a ploughman at Stoneyetts, near Chryston, who, with four of his sons, had enlisted in the 9th A.&.S.H. They have come through two years of the war unscathed, but now the circle has been broken, word having been received that Private Wm. Dodds, A. &.S.H., was killed in France on 16th May. He was twenty three years of age, and had been over two years in the Army. Before enlisting he was employed as a miner at Achengeich Colliery.

Kirkintilloch Herald 26th December 1917

Mrs. Dodds, Stoneyetts Cottage, Chryston, has received intimation that her son, Private Wm. Dodds, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, was killed on May 15th 1917. He was twenty-three years of age, and was formerly a miner at Bedlay Colliery. He was a brother of Lance-Corporal Dodds, and both are sons of Mr. Ephraim Dodds, ploughman, Chryston, who with his four sons enlisted in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders shortly after the outbreak of war.

Notes

Army records have date of death as 16th. Commonwealth war Garves commission has date as 19th.

WILLIAM J. R. DOW - 145640 Gunner

71st Heavy Battery, 21st Brigade, Royal Garrison Artillery

BORN: About 1885

PARENTS: Mr. David and Mrs. Francis Rankin Dow of Falkirk.

WIFE: Mrs Elizabeth G. Barr Dow, 2 Edmiston Drive, Ibrox, Glasgow.

Died of wounds 6th January 1919 - France

INTERRED - Cologne Southern Cemetery, Germany.#

REF - IX. A. 7.

Kirkintilloch Herald 22nd January 1919

Word was received last week that the death has taken place in a Casualty Clearing Station in France of Gunner William J. R. Dow, R. G. A., son of Mrs. Dow, The Meadows, Lenzie. Gunner Dow, whose death took place on 6th inst., was shortly expected home. He was a partner in the firm of D. Dow & Sons, ironfounders, Kirkintilloch, and leaves a widow. He was buried at the British cemetery at Euskicheer, in Germany.

# Also known as Sudfriedhof, Zollstock.

Details from Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

SIMON DOWNIE - Private

29th Battalion Canadian Infantry, (British Columbia Regiment)

BORN: About 1897

PARENTS: Mr. George and Mrs. Elizabeth Downie, Harestanes Farm, Kirkintilloch

Killed in action 12th May 1918 - France.

INTERRED - Wailly Orchard Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France.

REF - II. E. 20.

Kirkintilloch Herald 22nd May 1918

Kirkintilloch Canadian Killed

Mr. amd Mrs. George Downie, Harestanes Farm, Kirkintilloch have received a chaplains letter stating that their son Private Simon Downie of the canadian Infantry was killedin France on 12th May and that the writer had taken part in his funeral. Private Downie who was twenty-nine years of age, emigrated to Canada six years ago and came to France with the Canadians two years ago. While at home he was employed in farming at Inchbreck. His eldest brother Private George Doenie Royal Scots, was wounded in recent fighting and is presently at home at Harestanes.*

Kirkintilloch herald 22nd May 1915

DOWNIE - Killed in action, in France on Sunday May 12th .

Private Simon Downie, Canadian Infantry, third son of

Mr.and Mrs George Downie, Harestanes, Kirkintilloch.

Notes

* See article Kirkintilloch Herald 17th May 1918

Thanks to Keith R. Wood.

MICHAEL DRAIN - 303330 Private

2nd Battalion A.&.S.H.

P.O.B: Kirkintilloch.

ENLISTED: Kirkintilloch.

Killed in action 21st September 1918

COMMEMORATED - Vis- en - Artois Memorial, Pas de Calais, France - Panel 10.

Note

Lived in Kilsyth, Stirlingshire.

NO FURTHER INFORMATION AVAILABLE TO DATE

HENRY DUFF - G44441 Private

2nd Battalion Royal Fusiliers

BORN: About 1884.

P.O.B: Alloa, Clackmannanshire.

ENLISTED: Hanley, Stoke on Trent.

MOTHER: Mrs. and the late Henry Duff, Back o' Loch, Kirkintilloch.

WIFE: Mrs. Hannah Jane Duff, Davenshaw Lodge, Bunglawton, Congleton, Cheshire. U.K.

Killed in action - France 21st March 1918.

INTERRED - Oxford Road Cemetery, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

REF - V. D. 25.

Kirkintilloch Herald 3rd April 1918

Mrs. Duff, residing at Back o' Loch, has received word stating that her son, Private Henry Duff, of an English Regiment, has been killed in action in France on 21st March. While in Kirkintilloch he attached himself to the Salvation Army, and left the town 16 years ago to become an officer in that organisation. Prior to that he was a grocer with the late ex-Provost Aitken. He had been in France for a year and was 34 years of age, He leaves a widow, but no family.

WILLIAM C. DUNCAN - S|413113 Private

6th Perthshire Battalion (Territorial) Black Watch.

BORN: About 1899.

P.O.B: Kirkintilloch.

ENLISTED: Stirling.

FATHER: George Duncan, 87 Eastside, Kirkintilloch.

Died from wounds 12 May 1918

INTERRED - Niederzweheren Cemetery, Germany.

REF - II. C. 16.

Kirkintilloch Herald 6th November 1918

Among the local men who went amissing in the March push by the Germans was Private Wm. C. Duncan, Black Watch, son of Mr Geo. Duncan, 87 Eastside. Later word was received that he had been taken prisoner, and now the parents have been informed that he died in hospital in Germany on 12th May from wounds received in action at the time he was taken prisoner. He was only 19 years of age and in civil employment was a miner.

ANDREW DAVIDSON - S\3716 Private

8th Battalion Seaforth Highlanders

P.O.B: Ballymena, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland.

ENLISTED: Kilsyth.

Killed in action 25th September 1915

COMMEMORATED - Loos Memorial, Pas de Calais, France. Panel 112 to 115.

Kirkintilloch Herald 3rd November 1915

Mr. and Mrs. Davidson, Mid Shirva Farm, Twechar, have received word that their third son, Private Andrew Davidson, 8th Seaforths, was killed in action on the 25th September. The information was conveyed in a letter sent by the Rev. W. Crawford, chaplain to the 8th Seaforths, who expressed his sympathy, and the sympathy of the Battalion, with Mr. and Mrs. Davidson and the wife and family of the deceased. Private Davidson leaves a wife and two children, who reside at Tintock, to mourn his loss. Previous to enlisting, Private Davidson, who was thirty-three years of age, was employed with Messrs. William Baird & Company, Limited, at their St. Flannan's Pit.

MATTHEW DYET

Kirkintilloch War Memorial

NO FURTHER INFORMATION AVAILABLE TO DATE

JOHN EDGAR - Gunner

Royal Field Artillery

WIFE: Mrs. John Edgar, 69 East High Street, Kirkintilloch.

Kirkintilloch Herald 8th August 1917

Mrs. J. Edgar, residing at 69 East High Street, has received word from the war Office that her husband, Gunner J. Edgar, R.F.A., has been brought to a hospital in England suffering from gas poisoning.

WILLIAM FERGUSON# - 9833 Private

2nd Battalion Highland Light Infantry

P.O.B: Kirkintilloch.

ENLISTED: Hamilton.

PARENTS: Mr. John and Mrs. Agnes Ferguson Craig,

10 Kilsyth Road, ( Later 19 Thistle Street) Kirkintilloch.

Died of wounds 30th May 1915

Kirkintilloch Herald 2nd June 1915

Intimation by telegram was received in Kirkintilloch on Saturday that Private W. Ferguson, 2nd H.L.I., had been seriously wounded, having been shot in the back and right thigh. then his parents, who reside at 10 Kilsyth Road, got official intimation on Monday that he was lying in No.1 Stationary Hospital, Rouen, having been admitted there on 20th May. The notice stated that he was seriously ill. On Monday night a further telegram came to hand with the sad intelligence that Private Ferguson had died on Sunday from the effects of his wounds. Private Ferguson was a Regular, and was stationed for a number of years with his regiment in India. As a matter of fact, he had not been very long discharged from the Army when war broke out and he was called up. He has been at the front since the commencement of hostilities. At the back end of the year he was wounded in the cheek, but not seriously, and after being treated in hospital was sent back to the firing line. Prior to August he was employed in the Star Foundry.

# ALIAS (C.W.G.C.) - SEE WILLIAM FERUSON CRAIG.

FRANK FINDLAY - 241946 Private

5\6th Battalion Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) - Formerly S\12686 A.&.S.H.

BORN: About 1898.

P.O.B: Dennistoun, Glasgow.

ENLISTED: Kirkintilloch.

MOTHER: Mrs Findlay, 129 Townhead, Kirkintilloch.

Killed in action 9th October 1918 - France

INTERRED - Naves Communal Cemetry (Extension), Nord, France.

REF - IV. C. 12.

Kirkintilloch Herald 26th October 1918

Mrs. Findlay, residing at 129 Townhead, received a letter from Lieut. David M. Baird, Scottish Rifles, informing her that her son, Rifleman Findlay, of that regiment, was killed in action on 9th October. The regiment had been following up the retiring enemy, and at the village where he was still fighting they came under point-blank range of a battery of guns, and Rifleman Findlay was killed instantaneously. The battery was afterwards taken, along with prisoners, but the officer adds, it was only through the bravery and devotion to duty of men like Rifleman Findlay that that was possible. He was one of the officer's best men, and one of the kind they could ill afford to lose, being willing and keen, and not only a good soldier but a good fellow in every way. In civil employment Frank Findlay was with the local Post Office, and was twenty years of age. He had been in the army for three years and three months, and in France for seven months.

JAMES FINDLAY - S|41664 Private

1/6th (Perthshire) Battalion (Territorial) Black Watch - Formerly 153343 Scottish Horse

BORN: About 1899.

P.O.B: Kirkintilloch.

ENLISTED: Stirling.

PARENTS: Mr. William and Mrs. Margaret Findlay, Bridge-House, Hillhead, Kirkintilloch.

Killed in action 20th July 1918 - France

INTERRED - La Neuiville-Aux-Larris Military Cemetery, Marne, France.

REF - B. 33.

Kirkintilloch Herald August 14th 1918

Word reached Mr. Wm. Findlay, bridge-keeper at the Hillhead, on Thursday morning, that his son, Private Jas. Findlay, Black Watch, had been killed in action in France. He was 19 years of age, and joined the Army on reaching the minimum age. Before then he was a miner at Wester Gartshore Colliery.

Kirkintilloch Herald 14th August 1918

DEATH ON SERVICE

FINDLAY - Killed in action on 20th July, Private James Findlay, 1\6th Black Watch, beloved son of Mr. and Mrs. Findlay, Bridge House, Hillhead, Kirkintilloch

JOHN FINDLAY - 200869 Private

5\6th Battalion Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)

BORN: About 1895.

P.O.B: Kirkintilloch.

ENLISTED: Glasgow

PARENTS: Mr. John Mrs Marion Freeland Findlay, 156 Saracen Street, Possilpark, Glasgow.

Killed in action 14th April 1917 - France

COMMEMORATED - Arras Memorial, Pas de Calais, France - Bay 6.

Kirkintilloch Herald 9th May 1917

Mr. John Findlay, a well known Kirkintilloch man formerly in the employ of Messrs. J.&J. Hay, and now with Messrs. Wm. Jack & Co., and residing in Possilpark, has received word from the War Office, that his son, Pte. John Findlay, Scottish Rifles, has been killed in France on 14th April, and that another son, Pte. Alex Findlay, was wounded on 26th April. Private John Findlay was an engineer with Messrs. J.&J. Hay when he enlisted, and is one of four brothers who joined the Army. He is 22 years of age. The mother is also a Kirkintilloch woman, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alex Freeland, Donaldson Street.

GEORGE FISHER - 27292 Private

14th Battalion Highland Light Infantry

BORN: About 1898.

MOTHER: Mrs. Fisher, Donaldson Street, Kirkintilloch.

Killed in action 28 November 1917 - France

COMMEMORATED - Cambrai Memorial, Louverval, Nord, France. - Panel 10

Kirkintilloch Herald 20th February 1918

Mrs. Fisher, residing at Donaldson Street, Kirkintilloch, has received official word from the War Office stating that her son, Private George Fisher, H.L.I., has been missing since the battle of Cambria, between the 24th and 28th November. He was 20 years of age, and had been with the colours for 2 years, 16 months of which he served in France. In the first year of the war an elder brother, Private Thomas Fisher, A.&.S.H., was killed at Gallipoli, while the youngest, who has touched on 17 years, is in training with a Highland regiment.

THOMAS FISHER - Private

5th Battalion Australian Light Horse

BORN: About 1890

FATHER: Mr. Charles Fisher, 32 Donaldson Street, Kirkintilloch.

Died from wounds 1915 - Dardanelles

Kirkintilloch Herald 16th June 1915

Mr. Charles Fisher, miner, 32 Donaldson Street, has received word that his son, Private Thomas Fisher, 5th Battalion Australian Light Horse, has died from wounds received in the fighting at the Dardanelles. No particulars are given. Fisher, who was 25 years of age, was a miner in Kirkintilloch before leaving for Australia fourteen months ago.

HARRY FLEMING - S|21667 Lance Corporal

7th Battalion Cameron Highlanders

P.O.B: Kirkintilloch.

ENLISTED: Glasgow.

Died of wounds 27th February 1918

INTERRED - Diusans British Cemetery, Etrun, Pas de Calais, France.

REF - VI. E. 10.

NO FURTHER INFORMATION AVAILABLE TO DATE

JAMES FLEMING - 22227 Sergeant

12th (Service) Battalion Highland Light Infantry

BORN: About 1891

P.O.B: Coatbridge.

ENLISTED: Clydebank.

PARENTS: Mr. James and Mrs. Isabella Fleming,

608 Broadway Avenue, Winnipeg, Manatoba, Canada.

Died from wounds 25th April 1917

INTERRED - Etaples Military Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France.

REF - XIX. J. 9.

Kirkintilloch Herald 25th April 1917

Sergt. Jas. Fleming, H.L.I., residing at Boghead, has been wounded in the abdomen, his injuries being considered serious. Sergt. Fleming has been two years in the Army, and is one of three brothers who are serving in the Forces. He was at one time employed by J.&P. Cameron, railway carriers, and Latterly joined the Dunbartonshire Police Force. He was a short time in Kirkintilloch, and afterwards at Milngavie. When he joined up he was stationed at Clydebank.

Kirkintilloch Herald 9th May 1917

Mrs. Fleming, Boghead, has received word that her son, Sergeant James Fleming, H.L.I. has died in hospital as the result of wounds in the abdomen. He was the eldest of four brothers in the army; and joined up some two years ago. At the time he was a member of the Dunbartonshire Constabulary, and was stationed at Clydebank. Prior to that he was at Milngavie, and was for a short time in Kirkintilloch. Before joining the police he was with J.&P. Cameron the railway carriers. He was twenty-six years of age.

WILLIAM FLEMING - 14863 Lance Corporal

Scots Guards

BORN: About 1896.

P.O.B: Glasgow.

ENLISTED: Glasgow.

PARENTS: Mr. James and Mrs. Isabella Fleming,

608 Broadway Avenue, Winnipeg, Manatoba, Canada.

Died of wounds 6th August 1917

INTERRED - Etaples Military Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France.

REF - XXV. l4

Kirkintilloch Herald 15th August 1917

Mrs. Fleming, residing at Boghead, Lenzie, has received a Telegram from the Scots Guards Barracks, London, stating that her son, Lance Corporal William Fleming, Scots Guards, died on 6th August from wounds received in action in France. He was twenty one years of age, and before joining up was employed in the Cadder marshalling yard. He has been in the Army two years, and in the fighting line for twelve months. There is another brother serving with the Camerons in France, while the youngest son is in training at Kinross. An older brother, Sergeant James Fleming, H.L.I. was killed in April last.

*France and Flanders - including Italy.

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