We are collecting, collating and transcribing the men and women of the parish who gave the ultimate sacrifice in times of war. This list is not yet complete.
If you have any contributions you can offer about the men here, we would be honoured to add them. If we have missed any, please let us know.
The parish is one of very few without a physical War memorial and there is a plan to fund raise for one. There is a lot of research to do to learn about each man and ensure we have all the names included. Please get in touch if you have any stories, images, family connections to the men below, and if there are any missing.
Other Local Military Stories, People, Memories
(Roll of Honour in chronological order of death)
peter-fraser-1823-1848
Boer War records in Inveraray Church and St Conan's Kirk
World War 1 : 28 Jul 1914 – 11 Nov 1918
1914
9 November 1914 Corporal Donald Currie 1883 -1914 BW
11 November 1914 Private Charles Martin 1896-1914 Camerons
17 December 1914 Corporal Ewan A MacColl 1892-1914 A &S H
25 December 1914 Gunner John Livingstone 1896-1914 R.G.A
23 May 1915 George Campbell 1892-1915 ASH not on our church plaques
1 October 1915 Dugald McCorquodale 1896-1915 ASH
11 April 1916 Archibald Allan 1879-1916 ASH
12 May 1916 William McBean 1888-1916
20 June 1916 Kenneth MacKenzie MacLucas 1896-1916
14 August 1916 donald-maclean-1896-1916
22 August 1916 Alistair Gordon Cameron 1891-1916
18 September 1916 James Bagan 1896 - 1916
15 November 1916 Donald MacLaurin 1888 - 1916
15 November 1916 Malcolm Maclucas 1873 1916
2 April 1917 John Cameron Kilcullen 1893-1917
9 April 1917 Donald Bruce 1895-1917
23 April 1917 James Mckenzie 1877-1917
3 May 1917 Hugh Cowan 1898 1917
31 July 1917 Donald McColl -1917
7 August 1917 J F Bagan 1898-1917
22 August 1917 Edward Connell 1895-1917
20 September 1917 Donald Martin 1893-1917
19 October 1917 James Watt Andrews 1892-1917
25 November 1917 John Gilchrist -1917
24 December 1917 John McBean 1882 -1917
2 March 1918 Archibald Livingstone 1900-1918
21 March 1918 Donald McVicar -1918
24 March 1918 Alexander Cameron Macintyre 1885 - 1918
26 March 1918 Archibald Campbell 1885-1918
24 July 1918 Allan Cameron 1882-1918
25 July 1918 John MacKinnon 1899-1918
29 August 1918 John-Scott 1882-1918
11 October 1918 Dugald McInnes Bown 1894-1918
17 October 1918 James Mcbean 1885-1918
21 October 1918 Dugald McLaren 1869 - 1918
6 November 1918 Charles Frederick Davis MacIntyre 1899-1918
World War 2 : 1 Sep 1939 – 2 Sep 1945
1940
David Cowan 1914 - 1943
Joseph Kelly 1919-1943
Peter John MacIntyre Scott 1916-1943
Thomas Boslem 1915-1944
John MacFarlane 1913-1944
William Gemmel 1916-1944
John Gardner Struthers 1923 - 1944
Bertie Harris 1917 - 1945 : ..
Kenneth Keith Stewart Mackenzie 1904-1945
William Hutchison Struthers 1916 - 1945
George Anthony Murray 1907 - 1945
Walter Forrester
George McDonald
Hamish McPherson
James Livingstone
Alexander McKay
Donald Carswell Martin 1920 - 1944
Elizabeth Flora MacNiven MacLarty 1915 -1944
From this obituary notice it appears she was released from the Q.A.I.N.S. before she died.
Post WW
Donald Ferguson Blair - Northern Ireland
Lochawe memorial at St Conans kirk
There are also brass plaques inside with names from the Boer war we need to research as they might be Ardchattan residents, when the parish was bigger
Archibald Allan - ALSO in Ardchattan - see above
Major James William Hamilton Alston
AH Black
J Fraser
A Henderson
PJS Laing
Archibald Mckinnon
K Mclean
Alexander Mcnab
James Wilson
Many of these men were working at Bonawe Quarries, they had come from outside the area, but are commemorated here. Of the men locally born and raised, quite a few were blacksmith and foresters sons.
- Angus MacKenzie
- ..
- Angus McInnes
- ..
- Alexander Campbell
- ..
- Capt Alexander Cameron
- in Achnaba graveyard - need to check details, not sure of attribution
- Douglas MacDonald
- gravestone in Achnaba ? resident ?
We do not have a War Memorial in Ardchattan; and since the closure of Achnaba Kirk the Rolls of Honour from there have moved to St Modans in Benderloch.
Autumn 2019 - there are discussions beginning about fundraising for a public commemoration for the fallen from all the churches, across the parish - https://www.facebook.com/ardchattanwarmemorial/
Images
Rolls of honour from Ardchattan (Achnaba) Church of Scotland Kirk
Roll of honour from Ardchattan (Bonawe) Episcopalian church
Roll of honour from Selma free church
We have quite a few of the Commonwealth War Grave website records printed in a Roll of Honour file in the archive. To recognise them, and to learn more about each, lets begin to collect the stories and family history of those of our parish who were involved in the military in the past.
Scotland's War is an Edinburgh University project to collect as many of the memories and memorabilia of Scotlands contribution to World War one .. both forces and at home. If you would like us to scan and photograph any items you have and send them on, we would be very happy to help.
Sites to check
- http://warmemscot.s4.bizhat.com/warmemscot-ftopic4427-0-asc-0.html
- http://warmemscot.s4.bizhat.com/viewtopic.php?t=9553&mforum=warmemscot
- https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/743525/CAMPBELL,%20ARCHIBALD
- http://archive.scotsman.com/
- http://scottishwargraves.phpbbweb.com/scottishwargraves-ftopic1242-0-asc-75.html
- http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C8755354
- https://search.findmypast.co.uk/results/united-kingdom-records-in-military-armed-forces-and-conflict?firstname=charles&lastname=martin&keywordsplace=argyll
- https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=56095695&ref=acom
- https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/261040
- https://www.glasgowfamilyhistory.org.uk/ExploreRecords/Pages/Evening-Times-Roll-of-Honour.aspx
Roll of honour of 1st / 8th Battalian ASH
to do : create a page per person and link up the records.
Digital Records to be collected : from War Graves website : copies of Commemorative certificate, Register record, Panel list document,
Paper records : Images of the Roll of Honour panels in Churches, and on any Memorial.
Printed copies of most digital records.
Paper and digital copies of any medal cards; service records; chelsea pensionner records (and links here)
Stories, images and family histories of each man.
Many of these men were working at Bonawe Quarries, they had come from outside the area, but are commemorated here. Of the men locally born and raised, quite a few were blacksmith and foresters sons.
- Angus MacKenzie
- ..
- Angus McInnes
- ..
- Alexander Campbell
- ..
- Capt Alexander Cameron
- in Achnaba graveyard - need to check details, not sure of attribution
- Douglas MacDonald
- gravestone in Achnaba ? resident ?
We are creating this wiki for the community, near and far, to work together to develop an encyclopedia of the natural, family and social history of Ardchattan.
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