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.

Monday, 7 September 2015

Colin McIntyre

Colin or Coll McIntyre was born in Kilfinan, Argyllshire in about 1886.  In 1901 census he was a kennel boy at Otter House.

He married Janet Steele of Leith in 1910 in Leith by which time he was a game keeper and their son Duncan was born in Glasgow that year.

By 1914 they were at Holmhead in Sorn where their second son David was born.

Coll enlisted in the 6th Btn  RSF in Cumnock on 11th December 1915. His service record survives. He was sent to France on the 7th October 1916 till the

He died of wounds in France on the 1st February 1917.

His wife was living in Boreland Park, Auchterarder by this time and he remembered on the Auchterarder War Memorial and Dernancourt Communal Cemetery Extension in the Somme.

His record on CWGC
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