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graeme.ruxton
Joined: 26 Dec 2008 Posts: 52
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Posted: Sat Aug 08, 2009 8:24 pm Post subject: St Conval's, Linwood |
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On Bridge of Weir Road in Linwood, at the back of the main hall is an alcove which houses a wooden memorial listing the names of the dead of both world wars, with an associated statue of Christ after being taken down from the cross. The wood looks relatively recent to me, so it may be that this memorial was created when this church was opened (1967) rather than being moved from the former St Conval's church in Linwood (which itself was only built in 1932), although there were earlier Roman Catholic churches (at least from 1896) in smaller villages that were swallowed up by the expanding Linwood (Inkerman and Linclive)
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Adam Brown Curator
Joined: 14 Dec 2006 Posts: 7312 Location: Edinburgh (From Sutherland)
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Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2009 8:48 am Post subject: |
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One of the sunames was so unusual I had to look it up.
KRUMREIN, F
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Middlesex Regiment
Unit Text: 4th Labour Coy.
Age: 20
Date of Death: 31/07/1917
Service No: G/80165
Additional information: Son of Mr. and Mrs. G. Krumrein, of 9, Howe St., Barskiven, Paisley. Born at Elderslie, Renfrewshire.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Old Portion. F2. 400.
Cemetery: ABBEY CEMETERY, THORN
It does have a modern look to it, even more modern than 1967 perhaps?
This form of statue with Mary cradling the dead body of Jesus just after he has been taken down from the cross is called a Pietà.
If you are ever in Rome and get a chance to visit St Peter's then make sure you can get as close as you can to Michelangelo's La Pietà. Unfortunately a nutter took a hammer to it in the 1970s and it is behind reinforced glass now but it is well worth seeing.
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Adam Brown Curator
Joined: 14 Dec 2006 Posts: 7312 Location: Edinburgh (From Sutherland)
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Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2009 9:36 am Post subject: |
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And the Second World War names
BROWN, PATRICK MUGGINS
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Seaforth Highlanders
Unit Text: 5th Bn.
Age: 22
Date of Death: 26/10/1942
Service No: 2823228
Additional information: Son of Archibald and Margaret Muggins Brown, of Linwood, Renfrewshire.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: XVIII. D. 3.
Cemetery: EL ALAMEIN WAR CEMETERY
CORRIGAN, JAMES
Rank: Gunner
Regiment/Service: Royal Artillery
Unit Text: 2 Comp. Lt. A.A./Searchlight Regt.
Age: 35
Date of Death: 02/05/1945
Service No: 1614116
Additional information: Son of Francis and Mary Corrigan; husband of Jeanie Corrigan, of Linwood, Renfrewshire.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: 1. C. 7.
Cemetery: CELLE WAR CEMETERY
Probably
McCOLGAN, JAMES
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Seaforth Highlanders
Unit Text: 1st Bn.
Age: 24
Date of Death: 20/04/1943
Service No: 2883253
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Joint grave 17. C. 1-2.
Cemetery: TAUKKYAN WAR CEMETERY
McCRUDDEN, JOHN
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Hampshire Regiment
Unit Text: 5th Bn.
Age: 22
Date of Death: 04/09/1944
Service No: 1799784
Additional information: Son of Robert and Marya McCrudden, of Elderslie, Renfrewshire.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: II. C. 1.
Cemetery: MONTECCHIO WAR CEMETERY |
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john burnett
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stuartn
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Posted: Thu May 21, 2020 1:14 pm Post subject: |
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According to the Church website this was a Civic Memorial, in the Church because there was no Civic building in 1967 |
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Kenneth Morrison
Joined: 29 Sep 2008 Posts: 7779 Location: Rockcliffe Dalbeattie
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Posted: Thu May 21, 2020 6:50 pm Post subject: |
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Adam Brown wrote: | One of the sunames was so unusual I had to look it up.
KRUMREIN, F
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Middlesex Regiment
Unit Text: 4th Labour Coy.
Age: 20
Date of Death: 31/07/1917
Service No: G/80165
Additional information: Son of Mr. and Mrs. G. Krumrein, of 9, Howe St., Barskiven, Paisley. Born at Elderslie, Renfrewshire.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Old Portion. F2. 400.
Cemetery: ABBEY CEMETERY, THORN
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His service record shows that he was initially posted to the 31st Battalion of the Middlesex Regt.
And the Long. long Trail has this:
http://www.longlongtrail.co.uk/army/regiments-and-corps/the-british-infantry-regiments-of-1914-1918/the-duke-of-cambridges-own-middlesex-regiment/enemy-alien-labour-units-of-the-middlesex-regiment/
Enemy Alien labour units of the Middlesex Regiment
Authorised by Army Council Instruction 1209 of 1916, the Middlesex Regiment formed two labour battalions, numbered 30th and 31st (Works) Battalions, manned by recruits who were naturalised British citizens but of enemy alien parentage. The men mainly came from German backgrounds and were for the most part not of low medical grade (such as was the case with the units of the Labour Corps). The two units remained in England as part of the regiment and were never transferred to the Labour Corps.
In addition to the two battalions, the regiment raised eight Infantry Labour Companies from these men.
4 Infantry Labour Company went to France on 26 March 1917and it is known that 4 ILC was working in Nieppe Forest in June 1917. _________________ Ken |
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