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GlesgaPal Anniemay, Canada ......
.....this is ma grandpa Dallas (ma mammy's daddy) frae Rutherglen Road
He was in the ARP during the war. He was born 1882 so would have been
around 60, give or take, when this picture was taken.
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Peter Scott,Canada.
( GlesgaPal PeterBC )
Brigton boy Peter is on the left.... proudly
wearing his Canadian battledress which had a faint herringbone pattern,
a finer material than the course British uniform his pal is wearing.
The picture was taken at the
Castello di San Giusto in Trieste,Italy in the Autumn of 1945.
Peter's mate was Cpl.Stowe.
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GlesgaPal Johnboy Canada ......
.....this is a picture of my uncle Jimmy Ferguson This was taken
not too long before he was killed in WW1
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Lucky, Glasgow ......
.....daen his stint in the army 18 year auld taken in Nicosia
Cyprus 1955. Lucky (Billy Devine) wis in the Royal Artillery based in Troon then shipped out to Cyprus during the Suez crisis.
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GlesgaPal Alice Maxwell,
South Lanarkshire ......
.....my Grandfather, Charles Goldie and his brother Thomas's names are on
the Rutherglen Cenotaph. Both fell in the Great War. This is a photo of
my grandparents Charlie and Alice Goldie,. I am called after my
grandmother, Alice McHugh...who was left to bring up a large family on
her own after he was killed.
He was born in Rutherglen but when they married they lived in Adelphi
Street then Norman Street, Bridgeton.
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Charles & Alice Goldie
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Brigton Boys Pat & Hugh Skivington called up for
National Service 1946-47
This photograph recently re-surfaced after being "lost" for many
years.
Pat and his twin brother Shug in their uniforms taken at the
State Studio in Bridgeton Cross, before they left to join the RAF.
They were 17 years old and at the time and lived in Stamford
St. Barrowfield.
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