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James Little
SRoH. Not in Stewartry Roll of Honour. Identified as a soldier from Anwoth or Girthon ex Kirkcudbrightshire Advertiser “First Instalment of Stewartry Roll of Honour” 25th December 1914.
Private James Little 5th King’s Own Scotish Borderers.
T. Robert Little
SRoH. Not in Stewartry Roll of Honour. Identified as a soldier from Anwoth or Girthon ex Kirkcudbrightshire Advertiser “First Instalment of Stewartry Roll of Honour” 25th December 1914.
Trooper T. Robert Little Ayrshire Yeomanry.
John Lockhart
SRoH. Private John Lockhart. Home: Valleyfield, Twynholm.
Enlisted King’s Own Scottish Borderers. Served on Western Front.
Reported missing 3rd May 1917 and presumed killed.
Twynholm War Memorial Inscription : Pte. Lockhart, John K.O.S.B.
Twynholm Parish Church Memorial: John Lockhart
Girthon Gravestone (16.04): .....also John, his son, Pte. K.O.S.B. killed in action in France, 3rd May 1917, aged 26 years. Father: James Lockhart, Mother: Janet McGhie.
Dundrennan Abbey Gravestone (28): ... John Lockhart Private KOSB son in law of above (William Gordon & Agnes Gibson of Valleyfield, Tongland), and beloved husband of Jane Gordon, presumed killed 3rd May 1917 aged 25 years.
Tongland Gravestone (248): my dear father John Lockhart who was lost at the Battle of Arras, 3rd May 1917, aged 24 years.
CWGC : Private John Lockhart 24909 K.O.S.B. (6th Battalion)
Died 03/05/1917 On Arras Memorial, Pas de Calais., France Bay 6.
Sons of Galloway : Born 1890, at Borgue. Youngest son of James Lockhart & Janet McGhie.
Married Jane Gordon of Valleyfield 28th April 1916.
He was a ploughman at Twynholm Mains.
Volunteered about late 1915. Mobilised 05/06/1916 at Berwick on Tweed and posted to Reserve Battalion. Sent to Western Front 27/10/1916 and joined 6th Battalion K.O.S.B. in November 1916.
Reported missing, presumed killed during his first mission, the opening day of the Battle of Scarpe, 03/05/1917.
His wife Jane appealed in the local newspaper for any information about him, but he was not officially reported as ‘presumed dead in action 03/05/1917’ until after the Armistice in 1918.
1911 Anwoth Census, at Mossyard Bothy : John Lockhart (21, ploughman born Anwoth). He lived with 2 other farm workers.
Kirkcudbrightshire Advertiser 10th August 1917: Mrs Lockhart, Valleyfield, Twynholm received notice from her husband's Commanding Officer that Private John Lockhart K.O.S.B. had been missing since the 3rd May.
Gatehouse link : Born Borgue. Worked at Mossyard in 1911.
John Caig Lockhart
SRoH. No mention in The Stewartry Roll of Honour.
Identified from Military Records on Ancestry.co.uk after searching for ‘Gatehouse’.
Military Records : John Caig Lockhart. Attested at Kirkcudbright 1st October 1914 with 4357 2nd Lowland Reserve Battery RFA . Born Anwoth, Gatehouse. Ploughman working for D. Y. Veitch, Low Creoch, Gatehouse. He was 5' 3''
Statement of Disability 23rd January 1919 at Sidi Bishr - with 2/53 DAC (Defence Ammunition Centre?) RFA.
Certificate of Identity: 11th February 1919 John Lockhart 655739 Driver RFA. Home: Boreland, Balmaghie, Castle Douglas. Served in Egypt. Medical condition A1. Born 18190.
05/01/1915 Going out of Bounds - Punishment 3 days CB [Confined to Barracks]
13/03/1915 Absent from tattoo - Punishment 1 day CB
08/06/1915 to 29/01/1919 served with Egyptian Expeditionary Force
23/06/1915 Arrived Port Said
24/07/1915 Hospital in Port said with diahorrea
26/08/1915 Hospital in Port Said with dyspepsia
31/07/1916 Absent from Draft - 28 days Field Punishment
17/08/1916 O/C Unit Mustered Driver at Kantara
27/08/1916 17th General Hospital Alexandria with dysentry
13/10/1918 with 53 DAC Palestine
29/01/1919 embarked on 'Ormande' at Port Said for England.
10/03/1919 Demobbed. Address Boreland, Balmaghie
1901 Twynholm Census, at Glyd's West : John Lockhart (11, born Gatehouse) with father Henry (ploughman), mother Grace and 4 younger sisters.
Anwoth Banns: May 1895 Henry Lockhart (farm labourer from Anwoth) married Grace Parrie Caig from Borgue (John’s parents).
Scotlands People Index : Birth of John Lockhart 1890 Borgue. (Only one in Kirkcudbrightshire).
Gatehouse link : Worked at Low Creoch.
William Lorimer
SRoH. No mention in The Stewartry Roll of Honour. Found from a search on ‘Find My Past’ website for soldiers from Gatehouse.
Army records: Pioneer 297616 Royal Engineers (RC Company).
Born 1886 in Gatehouse of Fleet. Residence (in 1917) Georgetown, Dumfries.
08/07/1917 : attested at Gretna (aged 31 & 9m). He was a labourer, 5' 6¾'' 141 lbs and in good physical condition.
22/09/1917; discharged as unfit for service as he had defective eyesight. (He was an albino).
Wife : Janet Smith whom he married 28/05/1910 in Twynholm.
Children : William Lorimer born 18/08/1910, Jane born 12/06/1912 and Mary born 14/05/1913 all at Haugh of Urr and James Lorimer born 02/10/1915 at Gatehouse of Fleet.
Gatehouse link : Born in Gatehouse. His family may have lived there in 1915
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