Today I returned to Dundee’s Balgray Cemetery. William Cameron (Jr) rests on the southern edge of the Cemetery in a familial lair. He died from influenza and cardiac syncope on the 16th of November 1918 aged only twelve. William Cameron Jr was born on the 27th of April 1906 at 10 Benvie Road to lorryContinue reading “Remembering William Cameron”
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Remembering Winifred Wood
Yesterday evening I paid my first visit to Balgray Cemetery in the west of Dundee. Here I encountered the grave of Winifred Wood. She died on the 10th of November (the day before the Armistice) at home at 12 Rosebery Street of influenza and cardiac failure aged only sixteen. She rests with her sister andContinue reading “Remembering Winifred Wood”
Remembering Johanna Pow
Today I made my first foray into Clackmannanshire today. My first stop almost immediately after crossing the border from Perth and Kinross, was the picturesque Muckhart Churchyard which sits at the foot of the Ochils. There I located the grave of Johanna Pow. She died of influenza and pneumonia on the 5th of December 1918Continue reading “Remembering Johanna Pow”
Remembering John Cochrane
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”
Remembering Margaret (Maggie) Barrie
I have a sentimental attachment to Maggie Barrie. Her grave in Crieff’s Ford Road Old Cemetery was one of the first I located. Furthermore, after finding her grave I visited the new cemetery next door. The first grave I encountered belonged to a victim of COVID-19; a fellow pandemic casualty like Maggie, a century apart.Continue reading “Remembering Margaret (Maggie) Barrie”
Remembering Alexander (Alex) Sharp
Alex died from influenza and pneumonia on the third of February 1919 at the Leigh Auxiliary Military Hospital, Atherton, Lancaster aged twenty-eight. He rests in a familial grave in Kinfauns Churchyard. The grave is cared for by the Commonwealth War Grave Commission. Alex was born in the nearby parish of Scone on the twenty-sixth ofContinue reading “Remembering Alexander (Alex) Sharp”
Remembering Jane (Jeanie) McClymont
As with all public health crises, medics on the front line put their lives at risk on a daily basis. The Spanish flu pandemic was no exception. Nurse Jessie McClymont is one of many nurses who contracted Spanish flu caring for infected patients and tragically lost her life. She rests in a familial grave inContinue reading “Remembering Jane (Jeanie) McClymont”
Remembering William McLeod
William died on the 3rd of February 1919 at the Endell Street Military Hospital in St Giles, Bloomsbury, London aged twenty-four. Influenza and pneumonia were recorded on the death registration. His body was repatriated to his home in Kilmadock, Doune, Stirlingshire. He is interred in Kilmadock Cemetery, his grave marked by a Commonwealth War GravesContinue reading “Remembering William McLeod”
Remembering John George Burns
John rests in Scone New Cemetery. He died of influenza complicated by pneumonia and heart failure at the Perth War Hospital (now AK Bell Library) on the 31st of January 1919 aged thirty-seven. George was born in Borders town of Jedburgh on the 17th of June 1881 to George and Margaret (nee Telfer). He wasContinue reading “Remembering John George Burns”
Remembering Isabella Porter
Isabella rests in Mar’s Wark Cemetery. She died on the 7th of December 1918 at Broomfield, Newhouse, Stirling aged seventeen. She shares a lair with her two year old sister Grace and her parents. The grave is located close to the Castle Wynd entrance to the cemetery and is marked by an eloquent Celtic crossContinue reading “Remembering Isabella Porter”
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