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McIntyre
Army 7th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
Sgt. Alex McIntyre
British Army 1st Btn Irish Guards
from:Londonderry, Co. Derry
(d.5th Aug 1917)
Colour Sjt. Alexander McNeil McIntyre
British Army 1/4th Btn. Royal Scots Fusiliers
from:Loudoun Kirk, Galston, Scotland
I recently had a trip to the battlefields of WWI in Northern France (Vimy, Ypres etc) and went there completely oblivious to the fact that I was walking in my Great Great Uncle's footsteps. It was only in April 2011 that I was told of the medals which my grandmother has from him. She has two of the three that he should have, The British Victory medal, War medal and the 1914/15 Star, the latter I don't know what happened to. My Grandmother had been told that he had died in the war but I was sceptical as I could find no record of his death. In July 2011 I had another shot and found that he had survived. It wasn't until late August/early September when I found out that he had emmigrated to the USA to start a family.
Pte. Archibald McIntyre
British Army Cameron Highlanders
from:St Johns Town of Dalry
(d.13th August 1916)
Pte Hugh McIntyre
British Army Bute Mountain Battery Royal Garrison Artillery
from:Largs
Pte. James McIntyre
British Army 1st Btn. East Yorkshire Regiment
(d.28th Oct 1914)
James McIntyre served in the 1st Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment and died on the 28th October 1914. He is remembered at St. Paul's Church and on the Ploegsteert Memorial. Panel 4, His medal card records the award of the 1914 Star, War and Victory Medals.
James was born in Jarrow 1883. From 1891, 1901 and 1911 census he seems to be living with relatives by name Raven (grandfather 1891) Navin (uncle 1901) and in 1911 at Birkenhead as a lodger. But cannot trace parents.
Pte. James McIntyre
British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Felling
James McIntyre enlisted in 1914
Sgt. James Ferguson McIntyre
British Army 20th Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers
from:Gorton, Manchester
(d.23rd October 1917)
James McIntyre served with 20th Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers.
Pte. Jesse McIntyre
British Army 3rd/5th Btn. Lancashire Fusiliers
from:Rochdale
(d.26th Apr 1917)
Jesse McIntyre is buried in Browns Road Military Cemetery.
2nd Lt. John McIntyre MM & Bar.
British Army 6th Btn. East Yorkshire Regiment
John McIntyre was born in Choppington Northumberland in 1894. He joined the East Yorkshire Battalion in 1914 aged 20 as a private. He landed in Suvla Bay on 8th August 1915 and spent 4 months surviving the cold, lack of food and the Turkish guns until he left on 19th December for Mudros.
In January 1916 he was made sergeant and by February his unit was defending the Suez Canal. The Middle of May they embarked from Egypt to Marseilles via Malta. They arrived at St. Pol on 13th July 1916. In the following year and three months John was awarded the Military Medal and Bar and moved through some of the more famous battle grounds as listed in his war diary. On 13th December 1917 John McIntyre returned to England.and was noted as a candidate for admission to Officer Cadet in the Royal Air Force. He had two letters from King George inviting him to become an officer of the Royal Air Force in September 1918.
In 1919 he relinquished his Royal Air Force Commission. At some stage during his war service he had broken his ankle and never had it set so he suffered from this injury later in life. He had shrapnel wounds on his face but like many men never talked fully about what happened.
We heard about the Turkish throwing bombs which they threw back if they had time. We saw that he was not afraid of rats and that he could kill them with his bare hands. He never bragged about his medals so we didn't know how he won them and he is mentioned in the regimental diary and the date but not what he had done to deserve them. I expect he thought people would not believe what or where he had been because his regiment had been to a lot of fighting arenas. The final thing I have learnt from the study is that John's elder brother James was in the same regiment as him and he was killed on the 11th August 1917 so he probably didn't want to talk about any of it in case it upset his parents.
John's only son Hoodless Robinson McIntyre, a Lieutenant in the 6th Battalion Gordon Highlanders, was killed on 26th September 1944 in the mountains of the Gallic Line and is buried in the War Cemetery in Fienza, Italy. John died in 1979 in Bradford.
Tpr Peter McIntyre
1st Scottish Horse
from:Comrie, Perthshire
Pte. Robert McIntyre
British Army 2nd Battalion Kings Own Scottish Borderers
from:Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland
Pte. Sinclair McIntyre
British Army 9th Battalion Gordon Highlanders
from:Portsoy, Banffshire
(d.29th June 1917)
Sinclair McIntyre was a first cousin of my great-grandmother. He was one of 9 children of John McIntyre and Eliza Ann Macdonald. I have a photo of the children, but do not know which one is which. He served with the 2/6th & 9th Battalions of the Gordon Highlanders and was killed on the 29th June 1917.
I am writing a book on my Hamilton and McWilliam ancestors. His father's branch remained in Scotland, but all the other siblings emigrated to Canada in the 1850s.
Pte. William McIntyre
British Army 1st/1st Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars
from:Golborne Steet, Ashon-in-Makerfield
(d.17th Oct 1918)
Pte. William McIntyre
British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Gateshead
L/Cpl. Stanley Richard McIsaac
New Zealand Expeditionary Force 1st Bn. Canterbury Regiment
from:Marlborough, New Zealand
(d.11th Oct 1916)
Stanley Richard McIsaac died on the 11th of October 1916, aged 23 and is buried in the Etaples Military Cemetery in France. He was the son of Richard Dick and Catherine McIsaac, of Renwicktown, Marlborough, New Zealand. He also served in Gallipoli.
Pte. William McItterick
British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Newcastle
(d.9th April 1917)
William McItterick is buried in Roclincourt
Able Sea. McIver
Royal Navy
My father joined the Royal Navy as a 16-year-old boy in 1907. In 1909, aged 18, he signed on for 12 years. However, in October 1912 he was discharged "shore free". In March 1915 he was signed on again with his original rating of AB, for the period of hostilities. He was discharged from the Royal Navy in February 1919 and joined the Royal Fleet Reserve, being discharged "time expired" in 1938.
His WW1 Service Medals and Long Service Good Conduct Medal are engraved with his original Service Number although the War Medals show him AB RN, and the LSGC as AB RFR. He did in fact have a different Service Number in the Fleet Reserve. I cannot find a definition for the term "shore free", but it appears to imply that he was released from active duty but retained on the register. Any information would be appreciated.
L/sgt Andrew Charles "Mac" McIver
British Army 2nd Btn. Durham Light Infantry
from:Newcastle upon Tyne
From his service records, I have discovered that my grandfather Andrew Charles McIver initially joined the special reserves at the age of 17, ( No 400700 ). After a few months he reached the age of 18 and joined the Durham Light Infantry, ( No 11555 ), and I believe, posted to Colchester for training with the 3rd Battalion. He was posted to France in May or June 1915 to join the 2nd battalion DLI, where, on the 8th August he received a bayonet wound at the "Hooge". He was sent to the 5th northern hospital in Leicester for treatment until Dec 1916 when he posted back to France. Between this posting date and Mar 1917 he was gassed and once again returned to England but only until May 1917 when he was returned to France but I am unsure if he was still part of the DLI or he had at this point was in the 798 area employment coy. Its very difficult to decipher the service records as they are very faint and damaged, I do however know that in May 1919 he was a stretcher bearer at the Windmill camp in Boulogne from an order slip that he kept that is now 90 years old. On his discharge he was serving as a L/sgt with the West Yorkshire Regiment at the Northern command discharge centre in Ripon. Grandad very rarely spoke of his time in WW1 so its only by the aid of various wesites, mostly unreadable records and the DLI museum that this part of his life can be recorded and remembered.
The only story that he ever related to me was that at some time he was a "runner" between trenches. On carrying a message to his officer he was slightly wounded in the leg, when entering the command post his officer glared at him and ask " why are you not standing straight man", "I've been injured in the leg sir, sorry sir", grandad replied, with that the officer moved over to him and proceeded to cut open his trouser leg, with this grandad got very aggitated, " stay still, whats wrong with you man?" the officer growled, "Its the other leg sir", said poor grandad. He went two days with a racy split in his trouser leg.
Pte. Hugh McIver VC, MM & Bar.
British Army 2nd Btn. Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment)
from:Glasgow
(d.2nd Sep 1918)
Hugh McIver was killed in action on the 2nd Sep 1918 and is buried in the Vraucourt Copse Cemetery in France. He was the son of Hugh and Mary McIver, of 34, Dunlop St., Newton Hallside, Glasgow. Native of Linwood, Paisley.
An extract from The London Gazette, No. 31012, dated 12th Nov., 1918, records the following:- "For most conspicuous bravery and devotion to duty when employed as a company runner. In spite of heavy artillery and machine-gun fire he carried messages regardless of his own safety. Single-handed he pursued an enemy scout into a machine gun post and having killed six of the garrison captured twenty prisoners with two machine guns. This gallant action enabled the company to advance unchecked. Later he succeeded at great personal risk in stopping the fire of a British Tank which was directed in error against our own troops at close range. By this very gallant action Pte. McIver undoubtedly saved many lives."
Pte. James McIvor
British Army 6th Btn. Kings Own Scottish Borderers
from:Jarrow
(d.16th Mar 1916)
James McIvor served with the 6th Battalion, Kings Own Scottish Borderers and was killed in action age 19 on the 16th March 1916. He is remembered at Palmer Cenotaph, St. Paul's Church and is buried in Tancrez Farm Cemetery. His medal card records the award of the 1915 Star, War and Victory Medals and that he was killed in action.
James was born in Jarrow 1897, son of Patrick and Ellen McIvor nee Clifford of 133 Salem Street, Jarrow. In the 1911 census the family is living at 372 High Street, Jarrow with Patrick(42) a general labourer in the shipyard and Ellen(37) his wife of 17 years who had 10 children, 8 of whom survived and are of school age living at home. James 14, John 12, Patrick 10, Peter 8, Thomas 6, Agnes 4, Francis Joseph 2 and Eleanor who is 4 months old.
Pte. Thomas McKain
New Zealand Expeditionary Force 1st Btn. Canterbury Regiment
from:Weraroa, Levin, New Zealand
(d.23rd Jul 1915)
Thomas McKain of the 1st Btn. Canterbury Regiment, N.Z.E.F. is buried in Malta. My family moved to Malta and as my father visited during the summer and we made a project to complete. As there are a large number of ANZACs interned here in Malta we wanted to commemorate them through a visual format. I am hoping to upload the powerpoint slide pack as a slide show to youtube soon. Hopefully it will give a virtual experience of the graves of ANZACs here in Malta.
Pte. Norman McKaskie
British Army 1st Btn. Border Regiment
from:Kilham, Northumberland
(d.12th Apr 1918)
Norman McKaskie volunteered at Wooler, Northumberland. He died of his wounds in France 12th Apr 1918 and is buried La Kreule Cemetery, Hazebrouck. His headstone reads "Dearer to memory than words can tell are thoughts of him we love so well"
L/Cpl. Alexander McKay
British Army 16th (2nd Glasgow) Btn. Highland Light Infantry
from:Scotland
(d.16th Aug 1916)
Alexander McKay was killed in action and is buried at Cambrin Churchyard Extension. Cambrin is a village about 24 kilometres north of Arras and about 8 kilometres east of Bethune, on the road to La Bassee, France.
Pte. David Mckay
British Army 7th/8th Batt Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
from:Coleraine
Capt. Evans Alexander McKay MC.
Royal Flying Corps 104 Squadron
from:12 Chicora Ave, Toronto, Ontario
According to his Military file from the National Archives, Evans McKay flew on reconnaissance missions and was quite successful. According to the Canadian Annual Review War Series 1917 he was promoted to Flight Commander in 1917. At the end he was shot down and crashed. He survived and was taken as a POW by the Germans. At the conclusion of the war he was released and he returned to England where he officially released from the RCF. He returned home to Toronto, Canada.
Pte George William McKay
British Army 2nd Batallion Royal Munster Fusiliers
from:Walworth
(d.16th March 1918)
Pte. Henry Donald McKay
British Army 1st Battalion Wiltshire Regiment
from:East Ham, Essex
(d.7th Jun 1917)
Pte. James McKay
British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Blaydon
(d.1st Jul 1917)
James McKay is named on the Nieuport Memorial
Pte. James McKay
British Army 10th Btn. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
from:Coleraine
(d.10th Aug 1917)
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