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alexmaclennan
Joined: 24 Jul 2007 Posts: 151 Location: Just West of Glasgow
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Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2012 3:29 am Post subject: St Patrick's High School WW2 WM |
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St Patrick’s High School Second World War Memorial
Our Lady and Saint Patrick's High School
Hawthornhill Road
Castlehill, Dumbarton
G82 5JN
schooloffice@ourlady-st-patricks.w-dunbarton.sch.uk
Telephone: (01389) 762101
Fax: (01389) 731109
OSGB36: NS 382 759 [100m precision]
WGS84: 55:56.9304N 4:35.4752W
Rectangular Brass tablet hung in the main corridor of the school. According to a Janitor, this originally hung in the old St Patrick’s High School, now the site of St Michael’s Primary School and was moved here when Notre Dame and St Patrick’s were amalgamated as Our Lady and St Patrick’s School. He does not know of any corresponding Great War Memorial.
Previous site of Memorial, at the old St Patrick’s High School
St. Michael's Primary School
St. Michael's Way
off Castlehill Road,
Dumbarton
G82 5BS
Decorated with a thin tramline border. This contains a repeating series of elongated ovals and three spheres, like ‘turned spindles’. Small decorated squares at each corner of this border.
Christ on the crucifix centre top of tablet
The inscription and names are in white
St. PATRICK’S (crucifix) HIGH SCHOOL
DUMBARTON
OF YOUR CHARITY PRAY FOR THE REPOSE
OF THE SOULS OF THE FORMER PUPILS OF THIS SCHOOL
WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN WORLD WAR 1939 - 1945
Six columns of names.
Forename initial, middle initial and surname.
Left Hand Column
A. ANTONELLI
J. ARMSTRONG
J. BEATTIE
W. BLACK
J. P. BOYLE
T. CALDWELL
R. CAMPBELL
J. CANON
J. CASEY
J. CASSIDY
J. CLACHERS
W. CONNOLLY
P. CONROY
F. CROSBIE
Mid Left Hand Column
F. CUSACK
A. DOBBIN
G. DOBBIN
W. DOBBIN
E. DOCHERTY
J. DOCHERTY
P. DOCHERTY
J. DONAGHY
P. DOYLE
T. DOUGAN
J. DUCHAN
J. DUFFY
D. FEE
J. FEE
Centre Left Hand Column
J. FEENEY
J. FLEMING
C. FRIZE
J. GALLACHER
P. GALLOWAY
J. GORDON
C. GRAHAM
M. T. HEANEY
J. HANNON
D. HEGARTY
M. HUNT
E. KANE
T. KING
J. LENNON
Centre Right Hand Column
J. MARTIN
J. MITCHELL
J. MOONEY
T. MONAGHAN
H. McANINCH
J. McCAFFERTY
E. McCAUGHLAN
A. McCOACH
J. McCOURT
C. McDONALD
Jas. McGHEE
Jn. McGHEE
J. McGILVRAY
J. McGOLDRICK
Mid Right Hand Column
D. McGROARTY
J. McGROARTY
J. McGURDY
A. McGURK
H. McILLANEY
J. G.. McILVENEY
A. McKAY
N. McLAFFERTY
T. McLAREN
A. McLELLAN
H. McMAHON
G. P. McMENAMIN
E. McGNAIRN
J. NUGENT
Right Hand Column
J. O’ DONNELL
A. OWENS
J. PUGH
F. QUIGLEY
T. QUINN
J. RAINEY
R. RAINEY
R. ROSS
A. SCULLION
W. SMITH
N. SOMMERVILLE
J. VERBITSKY
C. WELSH
At the bottom of the columns of names
RESQUIESCANT IN PACE
TRADAMUS ( crest) LAMPADA
The Crest is of St Patrick’s High School
F.OSBORNE Co London at bottom right of the tablet _________________ alex maclennan |
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DelBoy
Joined: 12 Jul 2007 Posts: 4858 Location: The County of Angus
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Posted: Fri Mar 01, 2013 4:32 am Post subject: |
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http://www.dumbartonreporter.co.uk/news/dumbarton/articles/2013/02/21/447699-plaque-campaign-connects-pupil-with-great-grandfather/
A CAMPAIGN to find out more about a Dumbarton high school's war memorial plaque, has connected a current pupil with his great grandfather.
Last month, the Reporter spoke to a family in the Vale whose great uncle was on the plaque in Our Lady and St Patrick's (OLSP) High School.
The plaque was unveiled in 1948 to commemorate the former pupils of the school who had died in conflict during the Second World War.
A school project headed up by Fraser McGarry, a history teacher at the school, involving pupils has been trying to find out the stories behind the names on the plaque.
Now it has emerged one fifth year pupil's great grandfather, who died at just 28, is on the plaque.
Brendan Black, 16, had known his great grandfather was involved in the war and says it's something he's grown up with.
He told the Reporter: "It's my great grandfather, that's on it, so I'm quite proud. I grew up knowing about it because of my grandfather, he was at the school when they put up the plaque."
Brendan's great grandfather William Black served in the Far East and was captured by the Japanese. He was held as a prisoner of war (POW) and died in 1944 in a prison camp. His remains are buried in a British cemetery in Kuala Lumpur and his family have visited the grave before.
His great-grandson says the recent interest in the plaque has reminded him of the importance of what the soldiers gave during the war. |
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Kenneth Morrison
Joined: 29 Sep 2008 Posts: 7779 Location: Rockcliffe Dalbeattie
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Posted: Fri Mar 01, 2013 3:10 pm Post subject: |
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Died 1942 rather than 1944 but everything else fits:
BLACK, WILLIAM
Rank:Private
Service No:2984349
Date of Death:22/02/1942
Age:28
Regiment/Service:Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
2nd Bn.
Grave ReferenceGrave 741.
CemeteryKUALA LUMPUR (CHERAS ROAD) CIVIL CEMETERY
Additional Information:
Husband of Rose Black, of Helensburgh, Dunbartonshire.
(He's the only William Black buried in Malaysia.) _________________ Ken |
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Kenneth Morrison
Joined: 29 Sep 2008 Posts: 7779 Location: Rockcliffe Dalbeattie
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Posted: Fri Mar 01, 2013 3:20 pm Post subject: |
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There's a neat little history of the 2nd Argylls in 1942 at
http://www.cofepow.org.uk/pages/armedforces_2nd_argylls.htm
It includes this:
On June 22nd 2002, Argyll veterans and families gathered on the Finlaystone Estate near Glasgow for the unveiling of a commemorative stone on a hillside overlooking the Clyde dedicated to those of 2nd Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders and others who lost their lives in the Malayan Campaign and subsequent captivity.
Do we have this on the Project? _________________ Ken |
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