Reply With QuoteFascinating yet poignant piece of killie history id never have known. Being a Mauchline man the second segment really touches home but Bud Maxwells dad as well, never new. Real heroes all three, lest we forget.
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Three Kilmarnock players who died during the Great War.
426151 2nd Cpl. David Glencross Slimmon. Military Medal. Royal Engineers 419th (West Lancs) Field Coy. Son of John & Mary Slimmon of Assloss Mains, Kilmarnock. Killed in action on Monday 23rd July 1917 aged 21. Buried in Hop Store Cemetery, Ieper (Ypres) Belgium. Awarded MIlitary Medal after storming a machine gun nest and ensuring comrades safety.
S/8960 Lance Serjeant Alexander McCurdie. 14th Bat. Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders. Son of James & Mary McCurdie of Mauchline, Ayrshire. Killed in action, Tuesday 24th April 1917 at Beaucamp along with ten other members of his regiment. Aged 22. Buried at Fif**** Ravine British Cemetery, Villers-Plouich, Nord.
S/7426 Lance Corporal James Maxwell. 1st Batt Seaforth Highlanders. Born Kilmarnock 1887, youngest of ten children. Signed Kilmarnock 1912, outside right. Enlisted at breakout of war, joined 1st Seaforths then part of Indian Army, 7th (Meerut) Division. This Division
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Fascinating yet poignant piece of killie history id never have known. Being a Mauchline man the second segment really touches home but Bud Maxwells dad as well, never new. Real heroes all three, lest we forget.
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