ALLOA
WAR MEMORIAL
WORLD
WAR 2 - SURNAMES - G
World War
1 and 2 - Detailed information
Compiled and Copyright Martin Edwards 2007
| GALLOWAY |
Charles
Duncan |
Chief
Engineering Officer, S.S. British Monarch (Glasgow), Merchant Navy.
Supposed dropwned at sea when his ship was torpedoed 19 June 1940.
Aged 37. Born Alloa, Clackmannanshire 1902. Son of Charles D. Galloway,
and of Christina C. Galloway, of Alloa, Clackmannanshire. Resident
29, Paton Street, Alloa, Clackmannanshire. Height 6 feet 1 inch,
blue eyes, fair hair, fair complexion. No known grave. Commemorated
on TOWER HILL MEMORIAL, London. Panel 20. |
| GALLOWAY |
William
Hunter |
Private
14678076, 7th Battalion, Princess Louise's (Argyll & Sutherland
Highlanders). Killed in action in North-West Europe 13 July 1944.
Aged 18. Born and resident Clackmannanshire. Son of Mr. and Mrs.
George Galloway, of Alloa, Clackmannanshire. Buried in RANVILLE
WAR CEMETERY, Calvados, France. Plot III. Row B. Grave 16. |
| GARLAND |
Kenneth |
Private
2986718, 8th Battalion, Princess Louise's (Argyll & Sutherland
Highlanders). Killed in action in Italy 20 November 1943. Aged 26.
Buried in SANGRO RIVER WAR CEMETERY, Italy. Plot VIII. Row A. Grave
30. |
| GATHERER |
George |
Private
2875192, 8th Battalion, Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment). Killed in
action in North-West Europe 15 September 1944. Aged 31. Born Aberdeenshire,
resident Aberdeen. Son of Adam and Jane Duncan Gatherer; husband
of Margaret Gibson Gatherer, of Alloa, Clackmannanshire. Buried
in KASTERLEE WAR CEMETERY, Antwerpen, Belgium. Plot I. Row B. Grave
5. |
| GREEN |
James
[McNeil] |
Able
Seaman P/JX 175165, H.M.S. Jaguar, Royal Navy. Died at sea when
at 02:27 hours his ship was torpedoed and sunk by German Submarine
U-652 off the coast of Egypt 26 March 1942. Aged 23. Born 24 December
1918 in Alloa, Clackmannanshire. Son of Edward and Mary Ann Burns
Green, of Alloa, Clackmannanshire. No known grave. Commemorated
on PORTSMOUTH NAVAL MEMORIAL, Hampshire. Panel 63, Column 3. |
| GUNNIS |
Richard
G |
[Listed
as Aircraftman 2nd Class, Royal Air Force on memorial] Cabin Boy,
S.S. Memphis (Alexandria), Merchant Navy, ship registered in Egypt.
Drowned at sea when his ship foundered off Ireland 28 February
1941. Aged 19. Resident 35, Hilton Road, Alloa, Scotland. No known
grave.
Note:
The 2,088-ton Egyptian steamer Memphis, on a voyage from Manchester,
England, to Vigo, Spain, ran into heavy weather off the northwest
coast of Ireland. Soon afterwards her engines broke down and she
foundered with all on board being lost, which included 29 survivors
from the Norwegian motor vessel Benjamin Franklin that had been
torpedoed by German submarine U-103. [Extract from World
War II Database]
|
| GUNNIS |
Stanley Frederick Maude |
Pilot
Officer (Observer) 63809, 21 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer
Reserve. Flying out of R.A.F. Watton, Norfolk, in a Blenheim IV,
serial number V6436, he was killed when his aircraft was shot down
by flak at Maassluis during a low-level raid on shipping in Rotterdam
harbour 28 August 1941. Aged 23. Native of Alloa, Clackmannanshire.
Son of Matthew Gunnis, and of Elizabeth Dorman Gunnis, of Alloa,
Clackmannanshire. Died 28 August 1941. Aged 23. Buried in HOOK OF
HOLLAND GENERAL CEMETERY, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands. Row F. Collective
grave 35. See also Tillicoultry
Devonvale Mills |
Last
updated:
26 February, 2023
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