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
Remembering WW1 soldiers with a connection to Cumnock in Ayrshire, Scotland, including those who survived and others not mentioned on the War Memorial. Researched by Cumnock History Group.
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