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GlescaPals tribute to 'oor forces'
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Email 17th April 2020 from Willie Green.
............photo taken during WW1 of my
grandfather JAMES ALEXANDER GREEN
who was with the Machine Gun Corp.
He is standing at the back of the group
which I suspect are the machine gun crew.
The photo was taken somewhere in Italy.
James lived in Landressy Street, Bridgeton
and died in 1949.
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GlescaPal
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.
( GlescaPal PeterBC
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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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GlescaPal 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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GlescaPal
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
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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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