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.

Saturday 21 June 2014

William McCall

William McCall was born about 1893 in Cumnock.






Report from the Cumnock Chronicle.


 His service record survives and gives his mother as Mrs James Nicol. He was a coach painter living in 25 Lugar Street and aged 21 and 4 months when recruited by Sgt McGill in May 1915. He joined the Cameron Highlanders at Inverness. He was 5 ft 5 weighed 156 lbs and had a chest measurement of 39 ".  His mother signed for his scroll as Maggie Nicol. I found a marriage of Maggie Begg and James Nicol in Cumnock in 1910.
 

In the 1901 census he is with his mother and grandfather
Roadside, Cumnock
James Begg 70 stonebreaker b new Cumnock
Maggie Begg 29 dau
William Begg 25 son gardeners labourer
Robert Begg 22 coal miner
William Mccall 8 grandson b Cumnock



CUMNOCK CONNECTIONS TREE

He died at the Somme in France on 18 July 1916 and is on Cumnock War Memorial and Thiepval in France.


Name: William Mccall
Birth Place: Old Cumnock, Ayrshire
Residence: Old Cumnock
Death Date: 18 Jul 1916
Death Location: France & Flanders
Enlistment Location: Old Cumnock
Rank: Private
Regiment: Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders
Battalion: 5th Battalion
Number: S/18041
Type of Casualty: Killed in action
Theatre of War: Western European Theatre




CWGC

He is also remembered on his mother's gravestone in Cumnock  new cemetery. He is named as William Allan McCall.
photo taken 18 Apr 2015 by Kay

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