Comrie. Alexander

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Category: 1916-17

Alexander Kirkwood Comrie

Highland Light Infantry

9th Batt. (Glasgow) Highland Light Infantry
He is remembered with honour on Scottish National War Memorial and the Helensburgh War Memorial, Column 1 Line 51.

The family home was at 15, Dixon Avenue, Crosshill, Glasgow.
The son of Daniel and Agnes (nee Armour) Comrie.

Alexander Comrie was born at Fairyknowe, 30 Lomond Street, Helensburgh where his father, Daniel, was a bottled water manufacturer (The Fairy Springs) and also a Town Councillor and Baillie. He was educated at the Hermitage School and was employed as a Clerk in the Burgh Surveyors Office. The family moved to Glasgow and he enlisted at the outbreak of war.
Alexander died during the battle at the Somme, taken ill he died of peritonitis. He was only 20 years of age.
His parents had inscribed on his headstone, 'They loved not their lives unto death'.

Carson, James

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Category: 1916-17

James Carson

Quebec regiment

4th Batt. Canadian Contingent of Infantry, Quebec Regiment. He is remembered with honour on the Vimy Memorial and the Helensburgh War Memorial, Column 1 Line 50.

The family home was at Holyrood Place, 124 West Princes Street, Helensburgh. Siblings: James had two brothers, Sergeant Jack Carson also serving and a younger brother Robert who was too young to serve.

The son of Robert and Margaret Combs Carson who ran a painting and decorating business from 71 West Clyde Street in the town.

James Carson was brought up in Helensburgh, the son of the local painter and decorator. He was educated at Hermitage School and went on to become a law apprentice in the office of Messrs George MacLachlan and Son.
He had emigrated 8 years before the war to work for the Railway Company in Canada but returned to fight for King and Country.
First reported missing, it was then confirmed he had been killed in action.
He is remembered on the Vimy Memorial - the highest point on the Vimy Ridge at Arras. The Memorial reads: 'To the Valour of their countrymen in the Great War and in Memory of their sixty thousand dead this monument is raised by the people of Canada'.

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