Introduction

In 2014 the centenary of the outbreak of World War One, Cumnock History Group began researching the names on the Cumnock War Memorial plus other men and women with Cumnock connections mentioned on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission or in the Cumnock Chronicle of the time. The research is not limited to those who died but also to men and women who served, using family history information.

The group would like to appeal to individuals with knowledge of family members for photographs of the soldier, either in uniform or not, and photos of medals or other memorabilia eg letters sent home from the Front. If you would be prepared to share these on this site, please email the web manager info@cumnockhistorygroup.org The group is willing to share any copies of documents found with the soldier's descendants.

Friday, 23 May 2014

William Curragh Rodger

This stone is in Cumnock old cemetery.  William Curragh Rodger was born in Auchtermuchty in Fife about 1896, he is the grandson of William Orr Curragh and Bethia Graham, son of Agnes Graham and Robert Rodger.

In the 1901 census the family in is 415 Brick Row Lugar
Robert Rodger     24 ammonia finisher? b Whithorn
Agnes Rodger     34 b b Lugar
William Rodger     5 b Auchtermuchty
James Rodger     3 b Cumnock
Bethia Rodger     1  b Auchinleck

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Ancestry has this
Name: William C. Rodger
Residence: Saltcoats, Ayrshire
Death Date: 22 Mar 1918
Death Location: France & Flanders
Enlistment Location: Ayr
Rank: Private
Regiment: Royal Scots Fusiliers
Battalion: 6/7th Battalion
Number: 48240
Type of Casualty: Died of wounds
Theatre of War: Western European Theatre

He is down as W C Rodgers on CWGC

He died of wounds in France on 22 March 1918 and is commemorated in Grevilliers British Cemetery in France.

He is not on Cumnock Memorial, nor Auchinleck, Lugar, Saltcoats or Auchtermuchty.
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