2015 Auchentibber War Memorial

2015 Auchentibber War Memorial, Blantyre. Pictured by PV in January.

2015 Auchentibber War Memorial, Blantyre. Pictured by PV in January.

I took a picture of Auchentibber War Memorial in January 2015, noticing it looked like it had been cleaned. Well kept, with nice poppy wreaths.

ERECTED BY
THE PEOPLE OF AUCHENTIBBER
IN
PROUD AND LOVING MEMORY
OF
THEIR GLORIOUS DEAD
1914-1919

BROWN Thomas 

Gunner, Royal Garrison Artillery.

BROWN Robert 

Lance Corporal, Black Watch. Killed in action 23rd April 1917. Commemorated on BASRA MEMORIAL, Iraq.

DUNCAN Robert 

Gunner, Royal Garrison Artillery.

DICKSON William 

Private, Army Service Corps. Killed in action 18th July 1917. Commemorated on BASRA MEMORIAL, Iraq.

BOYLE James

Private, Cameronians.

BOYLE Hugh 

Private, 9th Battalion, Black Watch. Killed in action 25th September 1915. Buried in PHILISOPHE CEMETERY, France.

HOLMES William 

Private, Cameronians.

McFARLANE John 

Corporal, Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders

NELSON William 

Lance Corporal, 2nd Battalion, Black Watch. Killed in action 14th March 1917. Commemorated on BASRA MEMORIAL, Iraq.

McLEOD Kenneth 

Driver, Royal Field Artillery Killed in action 21st March 1918. Commemorated on POZIERS MEMORIAL.

NIMMO Robert 

Private, Royal Scots. Killed in action 11th November 1918. Commemorated on ARCHANGEL MEMORIAL.

HAYBURN Robert 

Private, 9th Battalion, Black Watch. Died 8th September 1916. Commemorated on THIEPVAL MEMORIAL, Somme, France.

GILLESPIE Alexander 

Private, 1/5th Battalion, Gordon Highlanders. Died 6th September 1918 as a German POW.

POTTER Thomas 

Private, Australian Infantry Force. Killed in action 8th April 1918. Buried in HANGARD CEMETERY, France

“GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS
THAT A MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS.”

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