Sunday, 28 September 2014

John Bryden

John Bryden was born in 1892 in Cumnock but living at 2 Riverside Terrace Kirkconnel when he enlisted in the Cameron Highlanders in June 1915. He was a miner.

He was the son of James Bryden and Jemima Lochrie. In 1901 they were at 62 Skares Row.

James Bryden     43 coal miner
Jemima Bryden     42
Wm Bryden     16
Jas Bryden     14
Martha Bryden     12
John Bryden     9
Agnes Bryden     7
Marion Bryden     4
Thomas Bryden     2

He was a Corporal in the Cameron Highlanders when he fell in France on 30th May 1918.

A Miss Clapperton of 8 Craigbank, New Cumnock inserted a death notice for him in the Cumnock Chronicle on Friday 14th June 1918. Was she his sweetheart?

Kirkconnel minister Rev Charleson had this to say about him.






He is remembered on the Kirkconnel War Memorial and in the Aubigny Communal Cemetery Extension.

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