Malcolm Dow was born on 1st April 1915 the son of master butcher Daniel Dow and Mary McCormick. On 4th August 1937, he married his sweetheart Jemima Sneddon (Mina) in Glasgow in secret. He was 22 years old at the time living at 40 Morris Crescent. Malcolm worked as an Insurance agent prior to his […]
On Saturday 18th September 1915, the Hamilton Advertiser reported that a Blantyre hero was missing on active service during WW1. Captain Wilson was feared to be a Prisoner of War of the Germans. The brief official notification that Captain Frederick John Cowan Wilson of the pioneering “Flying Corps”, was missing, was received in Blantyre with […]