Monday, 10 March 2014

Johnston C Barrowman

Johnston Cameron Barrowman was the son of Robert and Catherine Barrowman of the Hotel Royal in Cumnock. He was born in Cumnock about 1895.

Here is the family in the 1901 census
Square, Cumnock
Robert Barrowman             51 hotel keeper b Coatbridge
Catherine M Barrowman             32 b Glasgow
Johnston C Barrowman             5 b Cumnock
William D Barrowman             4
Georgina Baird             24
Jeanie Crawford             20
Catherine Kelly             19
Annie Bell             17


He served with the  Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment) and was 22 when he fell in Belgium on the 18th June 1917.  He had previously been with the RASC.


He is remembered in Aeroplane Cemetery in Belgium, on Ayr Academy's Roll of Honour, Ayr War Memorial  as well as on Cumnock War Memorial.

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