Sources

Principal sources are listed below, with links where available.

• scotlandspeople
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission
• Scottish National War Memorial
• The Highlanders' Museum
• Glasgow Evening Times Mitchell Library, Glasgow
• Glasgow Herald Mitchell Library, Glasgow
• Illustrated War News Mitchell Library, Glasgow
• Paisley Daily Express Paisley Library
• Paisley and Renfrewshire Gazette Paisley Library
• ancestry
• Local and Family Histories
  • The Arrol, Arroll and Arrell Families. John Arrol and Robert N Arrol. 1994
  • The Record of a Woodrow Family 1695-1991. Kathleen Woodrow Stewart
  • Renfrewshire. Derek Alexander and Gordon McCrae. 2012
  • Bridge of Weir. William Lyle. 1975.
  • The Village, A History of Quarriers. Anna Magnusson. 1984
  • Bridge of Weir Freeland United Free Church Archives. National Records of Scotland CH3/458
  • Early Industry on the Gryfe: The Origins of a Mill Village. Stuart Nisbet. Renfrewshire Local History Forum Journal Vol. 16, 2010
  • The Leather Industry in Bridge of Weir - Past and Present. Jonathan Muirhead. Renfrewshire Local History Forum Journal Vol. 16, 2010
  • Wasted Journey, the Buddies who never came back. Paisley Library
  • The Built Heritage of the First World War in Scotland. Gordon Barclay. RCAHMS. 2013
  • Old Ranfurly. Drew McKenzie. 2005
  • Ranfurly Castle Golf Club, A Centenary History. Robert Crampsey. 1989
  • Carluke Parish and the Great War. Book 1 1914-1916. Carluke Parish Historical Society. 2015

• School, University and Company War Histories
  • Glasgow Academy Roll of Honour, Jackson, Wylie & Co., Glasgow 1933
  • Public Schools and the Great War. Anthony Seldon and David Walsh. 2013
  • University of Glasgow Archive Services
  • Roll of Honour 1914-19. Employees of S.C.W.S. who served with His Majesty's Forces in the Great War. S.C.W.S.

• General Histories of the Great War
  • The British Army of 1914. R Money Barnes. 1968
  • Britain and the Great War, 1914 1918. J. M. Bourne. 1989
  • Tommy Goes to War. Malcolm Brown. 2005
  • The Long Road to Baghdad. Edmund Candler. 1919
  • Disaster Ending in Final Victory. Gactano V. Cavallaro. 2010
  • Mapping the First World War Peter Chasseaud. 2013
  • Haig: Master of the Field Sir John Davidson. 1953
  • Battles of World War I. Martin Matrix Evans. 2004
  • World War I. Susanne Everett. 1988
  • The War of the World. Niall Ferguson. 2006
  • The Somme: An Eyewitness History. Robert Foley and Helen McCartney (eds). 2006
  • The Great War and Modern Memory. Paul Fussell. 1977
  • World War I in Photographs. Adrian Gilbert. 1986
  • First World War. Martin Gilbert. 1994
  • Mr Punch's History of the Great War. Charles L Graves. 1919
  • Goodbye to all That. Robert Graves. 1929, 1957.
  • The British Army in the First World War. Lieut-Col Howard Green. 1968
  • Catastrophe: Europe Goes to War 1914. Max Hastings. 2013
  • The 1916 Battle of the Somme. Peter Liddle. 2000
  • Ordeal by Fire: Witnesses to the Great War. Lyn Macdonald. 2001
  • The Wee Fellas. Richard Maitland. 2013
  • The Deluge: British Society and the First World War. Arthur Marwick. 1965.
  • Attrition: Fighting the First World War. William Philpott. 2014
  • Gallipoli: The End of the Myth. Robin Prior. 2009
  • To Arras, 1917: A Volunteer's Odyssey. Walter Reid. 2003
  • Architect of Victory: Douglas Haig. Walter Reid. 2009
  • The Flowers of the Forest: Scotland and the First World War. Trevor Royle. 2006
  • The Confusion of Command. Dan Snow and Mark Pottle (eds). 2011
  • Passchendaele -The Sacrificial Ground. Nigel Steel and Peter Hart. 2000.
  • With our Backs to the Wall: Victory and Defeat in 1918. David Stevenson. 2011
  • The First World War: A New History. Hew Strachan. 2014
  • No Man's Land: The Story of 1918. John Toland. 1980
  • The Guns of August. Barbara W Tuchman. 1962
  • In Flanders Fields. Leon Wolff. 1959.
  • The Great Battles of World War I. Jack Wren. 1971
  • The Long, Long Trail
  • Voluntary Aid Detachment Spartacus Educational.

• Official Histories of the Great War
  • History of the Great War based on Official Documents. Military Operations France and Belgium 1914. J E Edmonds and A F Becke. 1937.
  • Canadian Expeditionary Force 1914 - 1919, Official History of the Canadian Army in the First World War. Colonel G.W.L. Nicholson. Queen's Printer, Ottawa. 1962.
  • Official History of Australia in the War of 1914-1918. CEW Bean. 11th ed. 1941
  • Sir Douglas Haig's Despatches (December 1915 - April 1919) J.H. Boraston (ed). 1919
• Divisional Histories of the Great War
  • The Second Division. Vol 1. 1914-1916. Everard Wyrall. 1921
  • The Eighth Division. J H Boraston and E O Bax. 1926
  • The Ninth (Scottish) Division. John Ewing. 1921
  • The Fifteenth (Scottish) Division. J Stewart and John Buchan. 1926
  • The Seventeenth (Northern) Division. A Hilliard Atteridge. 1929
  • The Thirty-Third Division. Graham Seton Hutchison. 1920
  • The Thirty-Fourth Division. J Shakspear.
  • The Thirty-Fifth Division. H M Dawson. 1926
  • The Fiftieth Division. Everard Wyrall. 1939
  • The Fifty-First (Highland) Division. F W Bewsher. 1920
  • Engine of Destruction, the 51st (Highland) Division in the Great War. Colin Campbell. 2013
  • The Fifty-Second (Lowland) Division. R R Thompson. 1923
• Regimental Histories of the Great War
  • A History of the Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) in the Great War, 1914-1918 - Volume 2. A G Wauchope. 1926.
  • The History of the South Wales Borderers 1914-1918. C T Atkinson. 1931.
  • Regimental Roll of Honour of the Officers, Warrant Officers, N.C.Os. & Men of The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)
  • The Inns of Court Officers Training Corps during the Great War. F.H.L. Errington. 1922.
  • The History of the Canterbury Regiment, N.Z.E.F. 1914 - 1919. Captain David Ferguson. Auckland. 1921
  • The Wellington Regiment (NZEF) 1914 - 1919. W. H. Cunningham, C. A. L. Treadwell, J.S. Hanna. 1928.
• Battalion Histories of the Great War
  • 5th Battalion, The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles). T.F. 1914-1919. Glasgow. 1936
  • Steel and Tartan, The 4th Cameron Highlanders in the Great War. Patrick Watt. 2012
  • The History of the 7th Battalion Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders. J.W. Sandilands and N. MacLeod. 1922
  • Come on Highlanders! Glasgow Territorials in the Great War. [9th Battalion H.L.I.] Alec Weir. 2nd edition, 2009
  • History of the 16th H.L.I. Thomas Chalmers. 1930
  • The Seventeenth Highland Light Infantry (Glasgow Chamber of Commerce Battalion) Record of War Service, 1914-1918. John W Arthur and Ion S Munro (eds). Glasgow, 1920.
  • McCrae's Battalion: The Story of the 16th Royal Scots. Jack Alexander. 2003
  • The War Diary of the 5th Seaforth Highlanders, 51st (Highland) Division. D Sutherland. John Lane. 1920.

• Unit War Diaries and Archived Papers, National Archives
  • WO95/1280/3/1 1st South Wales Borderers. Aug 1914-May 1915 [Thomas Spink]
  • WO95/1347/3 9th Highland Light Infantry. 1914-19 [Frederic Barr]
  • WO95/1435 1st Gordon Highlanders. 18-24 Feb 1916 [Malcolm Brodie]
  • WO95/1715/1 2nd Cameronians (Scottish Rifles). 1914-1918 [Thomas Lawrie]
  • WO95/1767/1 5th Cameron Highlanders. May 1915 - Feb 1919 [Robert Sproul]
  • WO95/1768/1 10th Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders. May 1916-Dec 1917 [John Holmes]
  • WO95/1775/3 6th King's Own Scottish Borderers. 1 May 1915 - 30 April 1916 [John Clark]
  • WO95/1786/3 9th Cameronians (Scottish Rifles). 1 April 1918 - 31 August 1918 [Ernest Murray]
  • WO95/1801/2 58th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery. 1918-19 [Andrew Houston]
  • WO95/1937/2 9th Black Watch. 3 July 1915-15 May 1918 [William McKenzie]
  • WO95/1940/3 8th Seaforth Highlanders. 1 Jul 1917 - 30 Sep 1917 [James Woodrow]
  • WO95/1941/1 7th Cameron Highlanders. 1 July 1915 - 31 Aug 1918 [Hudson Hardman]
  • WO95/1944/1 8th Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders. 1 Mar 1918 - 30 Nov 1919 [Alexander Cameron, William Keith, Charles Morgan]
  • WO95/1944/2 11th Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders. 1 Jul 1915 - 31 Aug 1918 [Adam McLeod (Walton)]
  • WO95/1945/3 6th Cameron Highlanders. 1 Apr 1917 - 31 Aug 1917 [William Candlish]
  • WO95/1947/1 7th Royal Scots Fusiliers. 5 July 1915-5 May 1916 [James Hood]
  • WO95/1947/2 6th/7th Royal Scots Fusiliers. 6 May 1916-Jan 1918. [Peter Higgins]
  • WO95/1953/3 7th/8th King's Own Scottish Borderers. 1 Jun 1916 - 30 Jun 1919 [John Andrew]
  • WO95/1954/2 10th Cameronians (Scottish Rifles). 1 Jul 1915 - 31 Aug 1919 [John McInnes]
  • WO95/1975 18th Cameronians (Scottish Rifles). 8-15 Oct 1918 [Hugh Fulton]
  • WO95/1977/2 7th Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. 1 Feb 1916 - 31 Aug 1917 [William McClure]
  • WO95/1992/1 17th Division. Divisional Trench Mortar Batteries [James McGibbon]
  • WO95/2012/1 10th Lancashire Fusiliers. 1 Jul 1915 - 31 Mar 1919 [Robert Burns]
  • WO95/2175/4 103rd Brigade, Royal Field Artillery. Aug 1915-Oct 1917 [John Begley]
  • WO95/2330/1 18th King's Liverpool. 1 Nov 1915 - 30 Jun 1918 [David McGregor, Robert Niven]
  • WO95/2393/3 15th Highland Light Infantry. Sep 1916 - May 1917 [Robert Barr, Robert McDougall]
  • WO95/2393/4 15th Highland Light Infantry. July 1917 [James Pollock]
  • WO95/2403/2 16th Highland Light Infantry. 23 Nov 1915 - 18 Feb 1919 [Ian Bannatyne, Henry Strang]
  • WO95/2403/3 17th Highland Light Infantry. 1 Nov 1915 - 31 Jan 1918 [Archibald Fulton]
  • WO95/2422/2 1st Cameronians (Scottish Rifles). 1 Dec 1915 - 31 May 1919 [Edward Shedden]
  • WO95/2422/3 5th Cameronians (Scottish Rifles). 1 Dec 1915 - 30 Sep 1918 [James Brooks]
  • WO95/2426/2 2nd Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders. Dec 1915-Apr 1919 [John Brown, John Gray]
  • WO95/2427/2 4th Battalion Suffolk Regiment. Nov 1915-Jan 1918 [George Fisher]
  • WO95/2458/1 16th The Royal Scots. 1 Jan 1916 - 31 Aug 1918 [Gottfried Hepner Giffen]
  • WO95/2466/1 5th Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders. 1 Apr 1918 - 31 Mar 1919 [Robert Millar]
  • WO95/2474/3 157th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery. Jan 1916-Mar 1919 [J Lyle Barr - acc to CWGC]
  • WO95/2474/5 159th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery. Feb 1916-Mar 1919 [J Lyle Barr - acc to Medal Index Card]
  • WO95/2490/2 18th Highland Light Infantry. 31 Jan 1916-Feb 1919 [W Speirs Barr, George Jackson]
  • WO95/2524/1 9th North Staffordshire (Pioneers). 1 Aug 1915 - 30 Apr 1919 [William Houston]
  • WO95/2828/1 4th Northumberland Fusiliers. 1 Aug 1914 - 31 Jul 1918 [George Balfour]
  • WO95/2831/4 13th (Scottish Horse) Black Watch. July 1918-July 1919 [William Neil]
  • WO95/2854/3 255th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery. June 1915-Mar 1919; Jul-Sep 1917 missing [William Millar]
  • WO95/2856/2 51st Division, Divisional Signal Company. 1 May 1915 - 31 March 1919 [David Tod]
  • WO95/2865/1 6th Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders. Mar 1915-June 1916 [James Reston]
  • WO95/2865/2 8th Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders. Apr 1915-17 Mar 1918
  • WO95/2866/1 1/5th Seaforth Highlanders [Richard Arroll]
  • WO95/2879/5 7th Black Watch. 1 August 1918-31 March 1919 [William Kerr]
  • WO95/2898 6th Highland Light Infantry. 3 October 1918-6 October 1918 [William Blackley]
  • WO95/3672 3rd Infantry, Canadian Expeditionary Force. 1 Jan 1915-31 Dec 1915 [Walter Ian Brown]
  • WO95/3776 13th Infantry, Canadian Expeditionary Force. 1 Jan 1915-30 Apr 1915 [Neil MacDonald]
  • WO95/4240 8th King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry. 26 Oct 1918-31 Oct 1918 [John Higgins]
  • WO95/4273 Part III Gallipoli, Dardanelles. 8 Corps. Headquarters Branches and Services: General Staff. May-Sept 1915. [John Macdougall]
  • WO95/4321 156 Infantry Brigade: 1/7 Cameronians (Scottish Rifles). May 1915-Jan 1916 [Alister Duff]
  • WO95/4321 157 Infantry Brigade, 52nd (Lowland) Division. 1/6 Highland Light Infantry. May 1915-Jan 1916 [John MacDougall]
  • WO95/4352 Wellington Battalion and Canterbury Battalion. Apr-Dec 1915 [Robert Milroy, Andrew Gardiner]
  • AIR1/419 No. 14 Group. Daily operations and patrol reports 12 Jun 1918 - 28 Dec 1918. [J Ritchie Johnstone]
  • AIR1/485 No. 14 Group. Daily reports of operations & photographs for stations Llangefni, Pembroke, Fishguard, Bangor (8-13 Aug 1918) B Flight Air Station Bangor. [J Ritchie Johnstone]
  • RG9, Militia and Defence , Series III-D-3, Volume 4949 , Reel T-10759-10760, File : 473 , Access code: 90, Parts: 1 File Title: War diaries - 5th Battalion, Canadian Mounted Rifles Outside Dates: 1915/07/29-1917/02/28:5th Canadian Mounted Rifles. 29 Sep 1916-16 Oct 1916. Library Archives Canada [David Cummings]
• Memorials and Personal Recollections
  • Green, T.F. Memories of 1914-18. Imperial war museum. K51250. 323.1
  • War Memoirs of David Lloyd George. 6 Volumes. 1933-36.
  • Private Papers of Miss M Starr, incorporating the Diary of Miss Marjorie Starr VAD a Canadian serving with the Scottish Women's Hospital in the Abbaye de Royaumont, France. From 6th September 1915 to January 9 1916. Imperial War Museum. Documents 4572.
  • Empires of the Dead. David Crane. 2003
• Medal Rolls Index Cards 1914-1920. ancestry.com

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