MEN WHO WROUGHT.
GABRIEL THOMSON—JAMES BORROWMAN—DAVID SMITH—ROBERT CRAIG—WILLIAM
BARCLAY—THOMAS SLATER—ANDREW BROWN—ALEXANDER FRASER—JOHN
FERGUSON—DUNCAN M‘CULLOCH—JAMES H. FORSYTH—JAMES YOUNG—PETER
GLASSE—DANIEL H. GERRARD—JAMBS BAIN—THE BOARD AT THE END OF FIFTY
YEARS.
The Co-operative movement has ever been rich in men and women who have
given to it devoted, whole-hearted, and able service. There have always
been men with sufficient faith in the principles on which the movement
is based to spend themselves, their energies and their money, in
furthering it, from the days when Robert Owen, working to better the
conditions of the miserable creatures who were helping to pile up wealth
for himself and his partners, discovered that it was through striving to
help others that man could best help himself, and devoted his wealth and
the remainder of his life to the promulgation of this doctrine. In men
whose faith in this principle was great and whose work for its
enthronement in the councils of the world was arduous the United
Co-operative Baking Society has been rich. They have all of them been
men who believed that Co-operation was the true principle of progress,
and in their own way and time each one did his best to further the cause
he had at heart.
GABRIEL THOMSON.
It is peculiar that of the man who played perhaps the most prominent
part in the work of establishing the United Baking Society little has
been placed on record. Mr Gabriel Thomson was a man in late middle life
when the proposal to establish the S.C.W.S. was being discussed. He was
a representative of St Rollox Society at the meeting at which it was
finally decided that a Scottish Wholesale Society should be established,
and moved the resolution to that effect. When the committee was being
formed he was appointed treasurer, and when the proposal for a federated
bread baking society was being discussed he read a paper on the subject
which went far to decide the delegates in favour of the proposal to
establish the United Baking Society, there also moving the resolution in
favour of its formation. He was appointed first chairman of the Society,
thus acting as chairman of the U.C.B.S. and treasurer of the S.C.W.S. at
the one time; but he only remained at the head of affairs for the first
year, and his official connection with the Society then severed. He died
in the Townhead district about the end of the century.
JAMES BORROWMAN.
Those who knew James Borrowman have described him as one of the most
effective Co-operative propagandists and platform men that the movement
in Scotland has produced. He was a man of boundless energy and
enthusiasm, and was filled with a lofty idealism which caused him to
look ever ahead beyond the petty difficulties of the moment.
Unfortunately, his abounding faith in the possibilities of Co-operation
caused him to overlook sometimes the immediate and practical
difficulties in the way and, reversing the position of the men who are
unable to see the wood for the trees, his gaze was fixed so firmly on
the beautiful vista ahead that he failed to observe the rocks in the
pathway on which he trod until he had stumbled over them. Mr Borrowman
was one of the pioneers of Crosshouse Society, but at the time when the
Baking Society was being discussed he had just been appointed manager of
the newly formed Wholesale Society and had joined the Anderston Society.
He worked faithfully as secretary of the Baking Society until pressure
of work for the S.C.W.S. caused him to resign, and but a few years later
his unquenchable optimism caused him to make the mistake of allowing the
Ironworks Society to overdraw largely on the Wholesale Society. This
finished his outstanding work for the cause of Co-operation.
DAVID SMITH.
When Mr Borrowman resigned the secretaryship of the Baking Society he
was succeeded by Mr David Smith, who had been acting as assistant
secretary for some months before the resignation took place. Mr Smith
was a representative of St Rollox Society on the board of the U.C.B.S.,
making his first appearance as a representative from that society at the
committee meeting which was held on 15th March 1872. On the resignation,
in the summer of 1875, of Mr Robert Craig from the management of the
Society, Mr Smith was appointed manager, and continued to act in that
capacity until the end of 1889, when he resigned in order to start in
business as a baker in Maryhill. Unfortunately, he did not succeed, and
shortly afterwards went to South Africa. Evidently he did not find
things to his liking there, for in a year or two he was back in Scotland
again, and was acting as master of works in connection with the
reconstruction work of the Drapery and Furnishing Society. He died
almost exactly seven years after severing his connection with the Baking
Society.
ROBERT CRAIG.
Mr Robert Craig was only a short time—two and a half years—in the
service of the Society, but during that short period he did such good
work as to cause a general regret on the part of those who knew him when
ill-health caused him to sever his connection with it. In a vain effort
to restore his health he went to Spain, but, finding that he was not
benefiting by the change, he returned to Glasgow again, where he died in
1877. Mr Craig was a native of Barrhead, and before taking up his duties
as cashier to the Baking Society he acted as bookkeeper with the
Wholesale Society. He seems to have been of a most lovable disposition,
beloved by all who came into contact with him.
WILLIAM BARCLAY.
The name of William Barclay will always be associated with the Scottish
Co-operative Convalescent Homes Association, which he helped to found,
and for which he worked earnestly and enthusiastically. In the early
days of the U.C.B.S. he was associated with St Rollox Society, and it
was as a member of that society that he was appointed to the chair of
the Baking Society in 1870. He continued to act as chairman for fifteen
months only, and then severed his connection with the committee. In his
later years he was associated with Kinning Park Society, and it was as a
member of that society that he did his work in connection with the Homes
Association.
THOMAS SLATER.
When Mr David Smith resigned the secretaryship of the Society to take up
its management he was succeeded by Mr Thomas Slater, who represented
London Road Society on the board, and Mr Slater continued to act as
secretary until the end of 1887. During his term of office Mr Slater had
proven himself a most efficient and painstaking secretary, and it was
due to his initiative that the ground annual of the St James Street
property was purchased by the Society. After ceasing his official
connection with the Society he continued to take a keen interest in its
affairs and at times even to criticise the policy of the directors
through the columns of the press.
ANDREW BROWN.
It is probable that it was to the wise guidance of Mr Andrew Brown more
than to the work of any other man that the Baking Society was able to
overcome the difficulties of its early days. He was appointed to the
chair in 1872, and continued to act as president during all the
strenuous days when the proposals for building a branch bakery farther
west were being discussed with vigour. When he became president the
Society had many difficulties to contend with, not the least of which
were inefficient workmen, while shortage of money retarded its
operations to a very great extent. Mr Brown continued to act as chairman
until his society—Paisley Provident—withdrew from membership at the end
of 1880. All those who had the pleasure of knowing him speak of him as a
cautious leader, shrewd and clear-sighted, who always took a business
view of the proposals which came before the committee. Thus he was able
to steer clear of the many pitfalls which lined the pathway of his
Society.
ALEXANDER FRASER.
Mr Alexander Fraser succeeded Mr Brown in the chair. At the time of his
appointment to the chair he had been continuously a member of the board
of the Society from March 1873, as the representative of Busby Society,
and he continued to perform the duties of president of the Society until
the quarterly meeting which was held in December 1887. Mr Fraser had
thus an unbroken connection with the committee of the Society for the
long period of fourteen years, until then the longest period during
which any member had filled a seat on the board. During his term of
office he had seen the Society grow wondrously. He had seen it become
too big for its home at St James Street, and had steered it safely to
its new home, erected specially for its occupation, at M‘Neil Street,
and he felt that, that task accomplished, he did well to lay aside his
task. He was a worthy successor to Mr Brown and a worthy predecessor of
the men who followed him.
JOHN FERGUSON.
Mr Fraser was succeeded by Mr John Ferguson, of Glasgow Eastern Society.
Before Mr Ferguson came to the Baking Society’s board he had filled many
positions of responsibility in the Eastern Society. He was member of the
committee for a number of years, a member of the first educational
committee of the society when it was formed in 1876, and was also
president of the society for a number of years. In his own society and
in the Baking Society he did good work for Co-operation, and was much
respected by all who came into contact with him. He, too, joined the
great majority a number of years ago.
DUNCAN M‘CULLOCH.
Mr Duncan M‘Culloch was born in the little village of Carfin in
Lanarkshire. After serving his apprenticeship as a joiner in Wishaw, he
came to Glasgow, and on marrying became connected with Kinning Park
Society. In 1887 he was made president of the society, and afterwards a
member of the then newly formed educational committee. He took a
prominent part in the formation of the first branch of the Scottish
Co-operative Women’s Guild—Kinning Park Central branch—and came to be
known amongst the ladies of the guild as “The Father of the Guild,” a
title of which he was justly proud. After having been for a short time a
member of the committee of the Baking Society, he was elected chairman
in 1889, and continued to occupy that honourable position for the long
period of fifteen years. During these years the Baking Society entered
on a period of expansion which raised it from the position of a
moderately sized bakery, doing a trade of 700 sacks a week, to that of
the largest institution of its kind, with a trade of almost 4,000 sacks
weekly. He saw the biscuit factory started, and during his term of
office the Clydebank branch was opened and the Belfast branch was
commenced. Mr M‘Culloch also took a warm interest in the affairs of the
Convalescent Homes Association, and he served for many years, until his
death in the summer of 1915, as a director of this, “the brightest jewel
in the Co-operative crown,” as the chairman of the Homes Association
sometimes describes it. Mr M‘Culloch became again a president of Kinning
Park Society, and there, as in the work of the Baking Society, he
displayed enterprise, acumen, and firmness. He was a man of strong will
and dominant personality, and his work on the various boards of the
Co-operative movement with which he was associated was always marked by
strong common sense. On the Co-operative Defence Committee and on the
Scottish Sectional Board he was also a tower of strength; never
favouring schemes or policies which were far in advance of the times,
but never holding back when he thought action was for the benefit of the
movement to which he had devoted the leisure moments of his life. For
some time in 1915 he had been laid aside with illness, and as the
Congress of that year met for its first session the news of his death
arrived and cast a gloom over the minds of the Scotsmen present, who
felt that one who had been all a man had gone from them.
JAMES H. FORSYTH.
The genial cashier of the Baking Society is one of the best known and
most highly respected business men in the Co-operative movement. His
balance-sheets are models of lucidity, and this feature is often
commented on in the columns of the financial press. Mr Forsyth has had a
lifelong acquaintance with Co-operative accounting. As a lad he entered
the office of the Wholesale Society, and waited there until, as he
himself has put it, he began to understand what double entry bookkeeping
really was. Then a desire to see other lands possessed him for a time,
and he voyaged to the great Republic of the West. He had been there for
only two years, however, when the homing instinct possessed him, and
returning to Glasgow, after a short interval, entered the office of the
Baking Society as bookkeeper. Here he had been for some four years when
Mr David Smith retired from the management of the Society, and the
board, deciding that they were going to try and work the Society for a
time at least without a manager, appointed Mr Forsyth cashier and
bookkeeper, and cashier and bookkeeper he has been ever since. Mr
Forsyth is one of those officials who treat the business for which they
work as if it was their own. He is indefatigable in his efforts to
maintain and even to improve the wellbeing and to accelerate the
progress of the Baking Society, and during the strenuous years of the
war, when the demands of the War Office were depleting his staff,
nevertheless he “carried on” in a manner which won the approval of
management and delegates alike. He is one of those careful, painstaking
officials who are assets of great value to the societies fortunate
enough to possess them.
JAMES YOUNG.
Mr James Young, the widely respected manager of the Baking Society, is
an idealist turned business man. He has the vision of the poet, and is
ever looking forward from the sordid to-day to the brighter and better
to-morrow; but he is none the less a business man. He served on the
board of the Baking Society as a representative of Uddingston Society
for some three years before he was appointed, in 1899, manager of the
Society. Since then he has conducted the business of the Society wisely
and well, and his advice is eagerly sought after in matters connected
with the trade. He is very popular with all with whom business brings
him into contact, for he is recognised by all to be a man of high
principle, who is incapable of stooping to anything mean. To this aspect
of his character is probably due the remarkably good terms which have
always existed between the Society and the employees, for he is kind and
considerate to those whom fortune has placed under his charge.
Unfortunately, in these latter years his health has not been quite as
robust as his friends would like, but one and all hope that many years
of service yet remain to him.
PETER GLASSE.
Mr Peter Glasse succeeded Mr Slater as secretary. He was the
representative of St George on the board of the Baking Society at the
time of Mr Slater’s resignation, and was for many years one of the most
active Co-operators in the West of Scotland. He took a very active part
in all the strenuous work which fell to the lot of good platform men
during and after the boycott of 1896–97. On several occasions he served
with distinction in the chair of his own society, and was for many years
a member of the board of the Wholesale Society. He demitted office as
secretary of the Baking Society in the spring of 1895. From 1896 until
the merging of the West of Scotland Co-operative Defence Committee in
the National Co-operative Defence Association, Mr Glasse acted as
chairman of the committee, and then as chairman of the National
Association until its work was merged in that of the Scottish Sectional
Board. He died early in 1917 after a life which had been full of service
to Co-operation.
D. H. GERRARD, J.P.
Mr Daniel H. Gerrard, J.P., is one of the best known figures in the
Co-operative movement, and it is a matter for sincere regret to his many
friends that he is not able to go out and in amongst them as of yore,
and doubly regrettable that illness should have stricken him down two
months before the Society for which he had worked so hard completed its
fiftieth year of existence. Mr Gerrard is a Southerner, but he has lived
so long in Scotland that he has become acclimatised. His first
connection with Co-operation was with the second Maryhill Society, in
the formation of which he took an active part, and of which he was
president for many years. When that society amalgamated with St George
he threw himself with equal vigour and success into the work of his new
society, and ere long was appointed to the presidency. Then fifteen
years ago he was elected to the chair of the Baking Society, and
continued to act in that capacity until he was compelled by the orders
of his medical man to give it up. He was an able and earnest advocate of
Co-operation, and took an active part in the strenuous work of the
boycott days as well as in Co-operative missionary work in Ireland and
elsewhere. It is the earnest wish of all friends that in his retirement
he will be long spared to look back with complacency over his many
fights for the cause he loved.
JAMES BAIN.
Mr James Bain, the genial secretary of the Baking Society, has had a
long and active connection with the cause of Co-operation in Glasgow. He
succeeded Mr John Ferguson as chairman of Glasgow Eastern Society, and
was chairman of that society when the Dalmarnock Road premises were
opened in 1893. He was also treasurer of the society for a number of
years. In the spring of 1895 he was elected secretary of the Baking
Society in succession to Mr Glasse, and that position he continues to
fill with honour to himself and profit to the Society. Nor, although the
secretaryship of the Baking Society would seem to be enough spare-time
work for any man, does he rest content with that. Ever since its
formation he has acted as president of that beneficent Co-operative
institution, the Co-operative Veterans Association. In his work for the
Bakery he has always been conscientious and clear, and has also done
much work which lies outside his special work as secretary. For example,
he read a paper a number of years ago at a conference of representatives
of the Glasgow societies, in which he advocated strongly the
desirability of establishing a system of bread baking which would enable
the bakers to begin their work at a reasonable hour. He is getting on in
years now, but his minutes are as clearly written as ever, and his many
friends hope that it will be long ere he has to lay down his secretarial
pen.
THE PRESENT BOARD.
The members of the present board have served Co-operation well in many
capacities, and several of them have had long years of service on the
board of the Baking Society. Mr Buchanan, the present chairman, for
instance, was elected to the board of the Society in the year in which
Mr Bain became secretary. Mr M‘Lean has represented Glasgow Eastern
Society for many years, and Mr Young St Rollox for a long period. Mr
Monteith had done good work in St George Society before he came to
M‘Neil Street, while this is equally true of Mr M‘Lay’s connection with
Cowlairs. Mr Hamilton was for a number of years the representative of
Pollokshaws Society, and his untimely death while this book was being
written served to act as a reminder that “life is but a fleeting
vapour.” Another member of the group who has done good service to
Co-operation in his own society as well as in the Baking Society’s board
is Mr Cadiz, for a number of years the energetic secretary of the
Glasgow and Suburbs Conference Association. Mr Johnstone has done good
service in Shettleston Society, and Mr Simpson in London Road Society;
while Mr Walker, the “baby” of the board—he only joined it two months
before the end of the fiftieth year—has been well known for a number of
years as a representative of Clydebank Society.
Nor can we close this record of “men who wrought” without reference to
some of the men who, while not quite so prominent in its affairs as
others, yet had something to do with shaping the destinies of the
Society. Prominent amongst such was Mr Alexander, who represented
Paisley Provident Society on the board from the election of Mr Brown as
president until their society withdrew from the Federation. For the
greater part of the time he acted as treasurer of the Federation. Mr
Ballantyne, of Thornliebank, also was one of the earliest members of the
board, and continued to be associated with its work, as stable
inspector, for many years. The late Mr James M‘Murran, of Glasgow
Eastern, was the Federation’s last treasurer, the office being abolished
during his tenure. Nor must the names of the late Homer Robertson and
Michael Shiels be omitted. For a number of years Mr Robertson
represented St George Society on the board, while Mr Shiels was for long
the representative of Cowlairs Society, and both gentlemen died in
harness within a few months of each other. For a long time two gentlemen
very well known in another section of the Co-operative movement, Messrs
Robert Macintosh and Allan Gray, acted together as auditors of the
Society. Mr Wells, the respected secretary of Cambuslang Society, was an
auditor of later date, retiring when the amended Industrial and
Provident Societies Act of 1913 made it compulsory that auditors of
Co-operative societies must be public auditors. He was succeeded by Mr
John M. Biggar. The auditor who has served the members of the Society
for the longest period, however, is Mr William H. Jack, who has audited
the Society’s books for over twenty-one years, having been elected in
September 1897 on the retiral of Mr Allan Gray.
The work of many others, who in one way and another helped while they
could, has gone to build up the Society. They are gone, leaving often
not even a name behind them, but the result of their labours is
preserved as by a monument in the strong, virile Society of which we
speak so familiarly as “The U.C.B.S.”
STATISTICS.
In general readers do not care much for statistics, but no record of the
Society would be complete which did not give in some statistical form
the growth which the Society has made during fifty years. The table
given is not long, however, nor is it difficult to follow. It gives the
position of the Society at the end of the first year, and at the end of
each tenth year thereafter. In addition there are given the first
balance-sheet issued by the Society and that issued for the 200th
quarter. Readers can thus see for themselves the marvellous growth which
we have tried, however inadequately, to picture.
_Statistical Statement showing the development of the Federation during
the Jubilee Period._
──────────────────────────────┬──────────┬───────┬─────────────
TEN-YEAR PERIODS. │ No. of │ │
│Federated │Shares │ Shares and
│Societies.│ Held. │ Deposits.
──────────────────────────────┼──────────┼───────┼─────────────
│ │ │ £ s. d.
1869 (Commencement of Society)│ 8│ │
1869 (January 1870) │ 8│ │ 193 12 0
1878 (January 1879) │ 23│ 4,217│ 6,251 6 7
1888 (January 1889) │ 39│ 10,037│ 33,209 9 10
1898 (January 1899) │ 94│ 80,231│143,681 12 3
1908 (January 1909) │ 169│155,915│356,254 19 3
1918 (January 1919) │ 211│241,643│556,841 16 6
──────────────────────────────┴──────────┴───────┴─────────────
──────────────────────────────┬───────────────┬────────────┬────────────
TEN-YEAR PERIODS. │ │ │
│ │ │ Reserve
│ Sales. │ Profits. │ Fund.
──────────────────────────────┼───────────────┼────────────┼────────────
│ £ s. d.│ £ s. d.│ £ s. d.
1869 (Commencement of Society)│ │ │
1869 (January 1870) │ 5,081 13 6│ 23 3 1│
1878 (January 1879) │ 27,433 6 10│ 1,850 5 5│ 696 11 5
1888 (January 1889) │ 55,699 15 9│ 3,313 0 5│ 1,352 10 0
1898 (January 1899) │ 327,328 3 4│26,845 0 2│ 7,400 0 0
1908 (January 1909) │ 567,604 19 5│43,561 9 0│37,400 0 0
1918 (January 1919) │1,251,224 5 9│62,615 15 5│89,500 0 0
──────────────────────────────┴───────────────┴────────────┴────────────
──────────────────────────────┬─────────────┬───────────┬──────────
TEN-YEAR PERIODS. │ │ Paid for │ Paid for
│ │Educational│Charitable
│Depreciation.│ Purposes. │Purposes.
──────────────────────────────┼─────────────┼───────────┼──────────
│ £ s. d.│ £ s. d.│ £ s. d.
1869 (Commencement of Society)│ │ │
1869 (January 1870) │ 30 15 8│ │
1878 (January 1879) │ 440 1 3│ 8 2 0│ 5 5 0
1888 (January 1889) │ 913 9 9│ 6 0 0│ 21 0 0
1898 (January 1899) │ 8,890 6 1│ 474 3 8│ 309 9 4
1908 (January 1909) │ 13,967 4 9│ 876 13 10│ 907 3 10
1918 (January 1919) │ 29,845 12 6│1,424 13 1│ 643 13 9
──────────────────────────────┴─────────────┴───────────┴──────────
_Dr._ CAPITAL ACCOUNT
───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
LIABILITIES.
To Members’ Claims, as
per Share Ledger £193 12 0
„ „
Building Fund 145 0 0
„ Owing Messrs Penman £104 0 0
„ „ Gibson & Walker 150 15 0
„ „ Scottish
Wholesale Society 86 19 7
„ „ R. Geddes & Sons 18 7 6
„ „ M. Muir & Sons 34 15 0
„ „ R. Taylor 6 14 0
„ „ P. Bertram 1 5 9
———— —— —— 402 16 10
„ Profit 64 4 10
———— —— ——
£805 13 8
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_Dr._ CAPITAL ACCOUNT
───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
LIABILITIES.
=241,643= Shares at 20
each £=241,643= 0 0
_Less_ Unpaid 703 10 0
————————— —— —— £240,939 10 0
Societies’ Deposits at
12 Months’ Notice of
Withdrawal 93,571 6 1
Societies’ Deposits at
Call 104,462 6 6
Surplus Credited to
Societies’ Deposits
Account 31,837 4 0
——————— —— —— £470,810 6 7
Deposits (Private) at 12
Months’ Notice of
Withdrawal £55,838 7 8
Deposits (Private) at
Call 30,193 2 3
——————— —— —— 86,031 9 11
Societies Overpaid 5,980 1 1
Bonus for Half-year 4,770 0 4
Rents 12 15 0
St Mungo Hall Rents Paid
in Advance 5 0 0
Balance of Taxes,
Insurance, and
Telephones 4,974 13 5
Goods Account 13,075 14 0
Expenses Account 1,863 9 2
———————— —— ——
Total Liabilities £587,523 9 6
RESERVES—
Reserve Fund £89,500 0 0
Insurance Fund—
Fire and Marine £24,900 0 0
Employers’ Liability 5,680 0 0
Third Party 2,180 0 0
——————— —— —— 32,760 0 0
Educational and
Benevolent Fund 2,337 8 4
Balance to next
Half-year 1,845 15 4
——————— —— —— 126,443 3 8
———————— —— ——
£713,966 13 2
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1869 (JANUARY 1870). _Cr._
───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
ASSETS.
By Cash in Bank and on
hand £118 2 10
„ Flour, etc., in Stock £87 10 7
„ Rent Due 1 10 0
„ Owing by Societies 244 5 1
„ Fixed Stock 243 15 8
„ New Buildings, Paid
to Account 110 9 6
——— —— —— 687 10 10
———— —— ——
£805 13 8
═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════
1918 (JANUARY 1919). _Cr._
───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
ASSETS.
Investments, as per
Investment Account—
Shares £33,812 18 7
Deposits 348,257 18 6
——————— —— —— £382,070 17 1
Goods in Stock—
M‘Neil Street £28,384 13 9
Clydebank Branch 7,255 16 8
Rothesay Branch 278 15 4
Belfast Branch 5,922 15 8
Camp 18 0 0
Purvey Department 413 11 1
St Mungo Halls 17 7 4
——————— —— —— 42,290 19 10
Stock of Provender in
Stables—
Glasgow £445 0 7
Clydebank 101 17 5
——————— —— —— 546 18 0
Goods Account Prepaid 47,236 8 5
Goods Account £27,841 1 1
Sundries Account 242 7 9
Bread Delivery, Hire,
and Shoeing Account 16 17 0
Manure and Hayseed 33 4 10
——————— —— —— 28,133 10 8
Rents—
Tenements—Govan
Street £87 7 6
M‘Neil Street East 96 10 0
Belfast 29 5 0
St Mungo Halls 46 1 3
——————— —— —— 259 3 9
Land and Buildings 201,500 0 0
Cash in Banks £11,764 14 11
Cash on hand 164 0 6
———————— —— —— 11,928 15 5
————————
£713,966 13 2
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OUR FALLEN HEROES
=Pro patria mortui=
GLASGOW
[Illustration:
Seaman JOHN FRASER.
]
[Illustration:
Pte. GEORGE BANKS, Scottish Rifles
Mason
Killed, July 1915
]
[Illustration:
Drummer ROBERT M‘DONALD, H.L.I.
Tinsmith
Died, 5th September 1915
]
[Illustration:
Sergt. JAMES COLLINS, Seaforths
Biscuit Baker
Killed, 15th September 1915
]
[Illustration:
Pte. HARRY MEDDICKS, H.L.I.
Biscuit Baker
Killed, 15th September 1915
]
[Illustration:
Seaman JAMES NICOL, R.N.D.
Warehouseman
Died, 30th November 1915
]
[Illustration:
Pte. DOUGAL FERGUSON, H.L.I.
Mason
Killed, 27th January 1916
]
[Illustration:
Pte. CHARLES SMITH ANDERSON, Gordons
Pastry Baker
Killed, 17th March 1916
]
[Illustration:
Pte. JAMES JACK JARVIE, Gordons
Pastry Baker
Died of Wounds, 2nd July 1916
]
[Illustration:
Pte. WILLIAM C. FULTON, Camerons
Pastry Baker
Died of Wounds, 21st August 1916
]
[Illustration:
Pte. JOHN DELAHUNTY, Irish Guards
Baker’s Assistant
Killed, 15th September 1916
]
[Illustration:
Pte. WILLIAM H. CULLEN, H.L.I.
Pastry Baker
Killed, 31st October 1916
]
[Illustration:
Pte. ALEXANDER M‘LEOD. H.L.I.
Pastry Baker
Killed, 18th November 1916
]
[Illustration:
Sergt. ALEXANDER STEEL, H.L.I.
Storeman
Killed, 17th November 1916
]
[Illustration:
Pte. JOHN NEWLANDS, Gordons
Pastry Baker
Killed, 29th March 1917
]
[Illustration:
Pte. WILLIAM NIMMO, Gordons
Pastry Baker
Killed, 4th March 1917
]
[Illustration:
Pte. JOHN CAMPBELL SINCLAIR, Seaforths
Pastry Baker
Killed, 23rd April 1917
]
[Illustration:
Pte. JOHN BALLANTYNE, Royal Scots
Clerk
Killed, 23rd April 1917
]
[Illustration:
Pte. JOHN KENNEDY, Royal Scots Fusiliers
Clerk
Killed, 23rd April 1917
]
[Illustration:
Pte. CHARLES HAMILTON, Scottish Rifles
Warehouseman
Killed, 3rd May 1917
]
[Illustration:
Pte. JAMES KENNEDY, H.L.I.
Biscuit Baker
Killed, 27th June 1917
]
[Illustration:
Pte. PETER THOMSON, Gordons
Pastry Baker
Killed, 31st July 1917
]
[Illustration:
Gunner ROBERT SUMMERS, R.F.A.
Vanman
Killed, 21st July 1917
]
[Illustration:
Pte. JOSEPH M‘ALEER, H.L.I.
Painter
Killed, 10th July 1917
]
[Illustration:
Pte. GEORGE DODDS, Camerons
Vanman
Killed, 1st August 1917
]
[Illustration:
Pte. THOMAS URQUHART, Camerons
Hoistman
Died of Wounds, 22nd September 1917
]
[Illustration:
Pte. ALEXANDER M‘LEOD, H.L.I.
Clerk
Killed, 27th September 1917
]
[Illustration:
Pte. ALAN CRAWFORD, Machine Gun Corps
Warehouse Clerk
Killed, 24th October 1917
]
[Illustration:
Lce.-Cpl. ALLAN F. KERR, Royal Scots
Vanman
Killed, 22nd October 1917
]
[Illustration:
Lce.-Cpl. HECTOR HARVEY, Gordons
Bread Baker
Killed, 16th November 1917
]
[Illustration:
Cpl. GEORGE DICKIE, Scottish Rifles
Pastry Baker
Killed, 14th January 1918
]
[Illustration:
Pte. ALEXANDER WATSON, Royal Scots
Bread Baker
Killed, 28th March 1918
]
[Illustration:
Pte. JOHN REID, R.A.S.C.
Vanman
Killed, 19th April 1918
]
[Illustration:
Pte. ROBERT GARDNER, Camerons
Pastry Baker
Killed, April 1918
]
[Illustration:
Pte. THOMAS FAULDS, Scottish Rifles
Motor Driver
Killed, 10th October 1918
]
[Illustration:
Pte. AARON KERR, Royal Scots Fusiliers
Painter
Killed, 10th October 1918
]
[Illustration:
Lead.-Signalman JAMES M‘PHERSON, R.N.V.R.
Bread Baker
Died, 2nd November 1918
]
CLYDEBANK BRANCH
[Illustration:
Pte. JAMES M‘GINLEY, R.A.S.C.
Motor Driver
Killed, 7th June 1915
]
[Illustration:
Lce.-Cpl. JAMES HENDRIE, Argylls
Baker
Killed, 24th April 1917
]
[Illustration:
Pte. ROBERT STEVENSON, Lancashire Fusiliers
Baker
Killed, 19th August 1917
]
[Illustration:
Pte. JAMES AGNEW, Royal Scots
Warehouseman
Killed, 6th October 1917
]
[Illustration:
Cpl. ROBERT NIXON, R.A.S.C.
Baker
Killed, 21st March 1918
]
[Illustration:
Pte. DONALD H. GRANT, Camerons
Baker
Killed, 28th March 1918
]
[Illustration:
Pte. ROBERT HOPE, Argylls
Baker
Killed, September 1918
]
BELFAST BRANCH
[Illustration:
Sergt. SAMUEL LOWRY, D.C.M., R.I.R.
Baker’s Assistant
Killed, 1st July 1916
]
[Illustration:
Lce.-Cpl. JAMES M‘INTOSH, R.I.R.
Warehouseman
Killed, 1st July 1916
]
[Illustration:
Bugler SAMUEL WARD, R.I.R.
Baker
Killed, 1st September 1916
]
[Illustration:
Pte. EDWARD ROWNEY, R.I.R.
Baker’s Assistant
Killed, April 1917
]
[Illustration:
Pte. FRANK TAGGART, R.A.S.C.
Baker
Died, August 1918
]
LEITH DEPOT
[Illustration:
Pte. THOMAS ALSTON, Royal Scots
Motor Driver
Killed, 23rd July 1916
]
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TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES
1. Silently corrected obvious typographical errors and variations in
spelling.
2. Retained archaic, non-standard, and uncertain spellings as printed.
3. Re-indexed footnotes using numbers.
4. Enclosed italics font in _underscores_.
5. Enclosed bold font in =equals=.