GLENLUCE - SCOTLAND
War Memorial
War Memorial
Glenluce is a small village in the parish of Old Luce in Wigtownshire, Scotland.
Private George BELL 275
Born: New Luce, Wightonshire, Scotland Enlisted: 2-9-1914, Blackboy Hill, Western Australia Occupation prior to Enlistment: Labourer 11th Battalion Australian Infantry Departed Australia 2-11-1914 from Fremantle, Western Australia Killed in Action 25-4-1915, Gallipoli aged 27years Son of Jane McFadyean Bell. Resting Plugges Plateau Cemetery, Gallipoli Peninsula, Canakkale Province, Turkey Honoured Australian War Memorial Panel 61 |
Thomas McGILL 6544
Born: Wigtown, Scotland Enlisted: 17-4-1916, Blackboy Hill, Western Australia Occupation prior to Enlistment: Farmer 16th Battalion Australian Infantry Departed Australia 13-10-1916 from Fremantle, Western Australia Died of Wounds 20-8-1917, France aged 27years Son of James and Janet McGill, of George St., Queens Park, Western Australia. Resting: Trois Arbres Cemetery, Steenwerck, Nord Pas de Calais, France Honoured Australian War Memorial Panel 80 |
Wigstown Free Press 18-10-1917
Mr and Mrs McGill, Perth, Western Australia, (late of Changue, Portwilliam), have received information to the effect that their second son, Pte Tom McGill, died on 20th August from wounds received in action. Private McGill was previously wounded at Bullecourt, and had just returned to France when he was wounded. He was one of three brothers who came over with the Australian Imperial Force. One, through ill health, has been sent home to Australia, and a younger brother is in hospital in France. They are grandsons of the late Mr John Bell, Glenwhilly.
Mr and Mrs McGill, Perth, Western Australia, (late of Changue, Portwilliam), have received information to the effect that their second son, Pte Tom McGill, died on 20th August from wounds received in action. Private McGill was previously wounded at Bullecourt, and had just returned to France when he was wounded. He was one of three brothers who came over with the Australian Imperial Force. One, through ill health, has been sent home to Australia, and a younger brother is in hospital in France. They are grandsons of the late Mr John Bell, Glenwhilly.