Brothers John Glencross MM and Andrew Glencross MM

I spotted this death announcement in the Cumnock Chronicle about John Glencross

His mother was Mary Hutson and his father Robert Glencross.

He was awarded the Military Medal 14 Sep 1916 for bravery in the field.  He died on the 2nd October 1916.

Cumnock Chronicle

Cumnock Chronicle

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His service record survives although in very poor condition. He enlisted in 1909, aged 20. Regimental no. 60199.

He was admitted to hospital with gunshot wounds to the left thigh on 1st October and died the following day, 2nd October 1916.

His record contains a scrap of a letter from Mary his mother which in which she states another son a Second Lieutenant was killed in 1918.

It was Second Lieutenant Andrew Glencross also of the Black Watch killed  on the 18th April 1918

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Mary Hutson also lost her brother Andrew Hutson in the war.

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I found this report under "Battlefield Stories" in the Dumfries and Galloway Standard & Advertiser, January 27 1915

Updated 15 March 2018 with Chronicle clippings from Bobby Grierson and family mementoes from Iain Ogilvie.

Updated 29 Sep 2018 with photos from Robbie Moffat who visited his great uncles' graves along with his father Alex.