Those Commemorated on the
Anwoth & Girthon War Memorial

On the Anwoth & Girthon War Memorial there are 14 names
of soldiers who died during World War II.

Click on a name below to see a brief summary of that soldier's details

Gomer Cain	Alexander Cliff McCulloch	Hamish Cochrane	Denis Cowie
James A Crosbie	Alfred Gemmell	Alfred Hay	H Patterson Holmes
Robert Kennan	William "Alex" Kerr	Andrew McCulloch	William B McGeachie
	John Sproat	Robert Wilson

Those named on Anwoth or Girthon Church Memorials but not on the Town War Memorial

In each of Girthon and Anwoth Churches there was a plaque to commemorate those from the parish who died in the war. It is not immediately obvious why, but there are 3 names on these plaques that do not appear on the Gatehouse War Memorial.

Peter Leslie McEwan
Anwoth

Anthony Welsh McGuffie
Anwoth

William Muir
Girthon

Those who died but are not named on any local memorial

There are some who died, maybe away from Gatehouse, maybe after years of suffering from wartime illness or injury.

Drysdale Bennett	Ralph Elgin	Robert Hood Patterson
Ethel Salmond	James Wilson

Those Commemorated on the Anwoth & Girthon War Memorial

On the Anwoth & Girthon War Memorial there are 14 names of soldiers who died during World War II.