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John died on the 11th of December 1918 at the Naval Hospital, South Queensferry aged nineteen. “Influenzal pneumonia” was cited as the cause of death. He rests in the Sextus section of Glasgow Necropolis. The original familial headstone has toppled and since replaced, by the Commonwealth War Grave Commission, with a small granite plague exclusivelyContinue reading “Remembering John Cockburn Loraine”

John died on the 13th of November 1918 from influenza and pneumonia at Woodilee Asylum in Lenzie, East Dunbartonshire aged thirty-one. He rests in the Segundus section of Glasgow Necropolis. His grave is marked by an unusual column headstone. John was born on the 18th of April 1887 at 131 Canning Street, Calton, Glasgow toContinue reading “Remembering John Cochrane”