Privates Alexander and James Johnstone


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Reference WMO/275398

Address:

Parish Church

Stoneykirk

DG9 9DG

Scotland

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Status: On original site
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Within a garden/park/churchyard/enclosure/Marketplace
Description: Addition to Gravestone
Materials:
  • Stone Sandstone
Lettering: Incised
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
About the memorial: Addition to family gravestone. Wigtownshire Free Press (26 September 1918) reported: Mrs Johnstone, Culmore, Stoneykirk, has received official intimation that her husband, Private James Johnstone, Royal Scots Fusiliers, was killed in action in France on 5th September. Pte Johnstone had seen over three years’ active service was for nearly three years in Egypt being drafted to France in April this year. He has another two brothers in active service. One has been missing since 27 March last, and another was discharged in 1916. Before joining the Army Pte Johnstone was a rabbit trapper in Stoneykirk district.
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ERECTED BY/ROBERT JOHNSTONE/IN LOVING MEMORY OF HIS SONS/ PTE ALEXANDER JOHNSTONE/W.R.R.. WHO WAS KILLED IN ACTION/27TH MARCH 1918 IN HIS 21ST YEAR/ PTE JAMES JOHNSTONE R.S.F./WHO WAS KILLED IN ACTION/5TH SEP 1918 IN HIS 20TH YEAR/....

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