CHAPTER XXI.. Men Who Wrought.

MEN WHO WROUGHT.

GABRIEL THOMSON—JAMES BORROWMAN—DAVID SMITH—ROBERT CRAIG—WILLIAM BARCLAY—THOMAS SLATER—ANDREW BROWN—ALEXANDER FRASER—JOHN FERGUSON—DUNCAN M‘CULLOCH—JAMES H. FORSYTH—JAMES YOUNG—PETER GLASSE—DANIEL H. GERRARD—JAMBS BAIN—THE BOARD AT THE END OF FIFTY YEARS.

The Co-operative movement has ever been rich in men and women who have given to it devoted, whole-hearted, and able service. There have always been men with sufficient faith in the principles on which the movement is based to spend themselves, their energies and their money, in furthering it, from the days when Robert Owen, working to better the conditions of the miserable creatures who were helping to pile up wealth for himself and his partners, discovered that it was through striving to help others that man could best help himself, and devoted his wealth and the remainder of his life to the promulgation of this doctrine. In men whose faith in this principle was great and whose work for its enthronement in the councils of the world was arduous the United Co-operative Baking Society has been rich. They have all of them been men who believed that Co-operation was the true principle of progress, and in their own way and time each one did his best to further the cause he had at heart.

GABRIEL THOMSON.

It is peculiar that of the man who played perhaps the most prominent part in the work of establishing the United Baking Society little has been placed on record. Mr Gabriel Thomson was a man in late middle life when the proposal to establish the S.C.W.S. was being discussed. He was a representative of St Rollox Society at the meeting at which it was finally decided that a Scottish Wholesale Society should be established, and moved the resolution to that effect. When the committee was being formed he was appointed treasurer, and when the proposal for a federated bread baking society was being discussed he read a paper on the subject which went far to decide the delegates in favour of the proposal to establish the United Baking Society, there also moving the resolution in favour of its formation. He was appointed first chairman of the Society, thus acting as chairman of the U.C.B.S. and treasurer of the S.C.W.S. at the one time; but he only remained at the head of affairs for the first year, and his official connection with the Society then severed. He died in the Townhead district about the end of the century.

JAMES BORROWMAN.

Those who knew James Borrowman have described him as one of the most effective Co-operative propagandists and platform men that the movement in Scotland has produced. He was a man of boundless energy and enthusiasm, and was filled with a lofty idealism which caused him to look ever ahead beyond the petty difficulties of the moment. Unfortunately, his abounding faith in the possibilities of Co-operation caused him to overlook sometimes the immediate and practical difficulties in the way and, reversing the position of the men who are unable to see the wood for the trees, his gaze was fixed so firmly on the beautiful vista ahead that he failed to observe the rocks in the pathway on which he trod until he had stumbled over them. Mr Borrowman was one of the pioneers of Crosshouse Society, but at the time when the Baking Society was being discussed he had just been appointed manager of the newly formed Wholesale Society and had joined the Anderston Society. He worked faithfully as secretary of the Baking Society until pressure of work for the S.C.W.S. caused him to resign, and but a few years later his unquenchable optimism caused him to make the mistake of allowing the Ironworks Society to overdraw largely on the Wholesale Society. This finished his outstanding work for the cause of Co-operation.

DAVID SMITH.

When Mr Borrowman resigned the secretaryship of the Baking Society he was succeeded by Mr David Smith, who had been acting as assistant secretary for some months before the resignation took place. Mr Smith was a representative of St Rollox Society on the board of the U.C.B.S., making his first appearance as a representative from that society at the committee meeting which was held on 15th March 1872. On the resignation, in the summer of 1875, of Mr Robert Craig from the management of the Society, Mr Smith was appointed manager, and continued to act in that capacity until the end of 1889, when he resigned in order to start in business as a baker in Maryhill. Unfortunately, he did not succeed, and shortly afterwards went to South Africa. Evidently he did not find things to his liking there, for in a year or two he was back in Scotland again, and was acting as master of works in connection with the reconstruction work of the Drapery and Furnishing Society. He died almost exactly seven years after severing his connection with the Baking Society.

ROBERT CRAIG.

Mr Robert Craig was only a short time—two and a half years—in the service of the Society, but during that short period he did such good work as to cause a general regret on the part of those who knew him when ill-health caused him to sever his connection with it. In a vain effort to restore his health he went to Spain, but, finding that he was not benefiting by the change, he returned to Glasgow again, where he died in 1877. Mr Craig was a native of Barrhead, and before taking up his duties as cashier to the Baking Society he acted as bookkeeper with the Wholesale Society. He seems to have been of a most lovable disposition, beloved by all who came into contact with him.

WILLIAM BARCLAY.

The name of William Barclay will always be associated with the Scottish Co-operative Convalescent Homes Association, which he helped to found, and for which he worked earnestly and enthusiastically. In the early days of the U.C.B.S. he was associated with St Rollox Society, and it was as a member of that society that he was appointed to the chair of the Baking Society in 1870. He continued to act as chairman for fifteen months only, and then severed his connection with the committee. In his later years he was associated with Kinning Park Society, and it was as a member of that society that he did his work in connection with the Homes Association.

THOMAS SLATER.

When Mr David Smith resigned the secretaryship of the Society to take up its management he was succeeded by Mr Thomas Slater, who represented London Road Society on the board, and Mr Slater continued to act as secretary until the end of 1887. During his term of office Mr Slater had proven himself a most efficient and painstaking secretary, and it was due to his initiative that the ground annual of the St James Street property was purchased by the Society. After ceasing his official connection with the Society he continued to take a keen interest in its affairs and at times even to criticise the policy of the directors through the columns of the press.

ANDREW BROWN.

It is probable that it was to the wise guidance of Mr Andrew Brown more than to the work of any other man that the Baking Society was able to overcome the difficulties of its early days. He was appointed to the chair in 1872, and continued to act as president during all the strenuous days when the proposals for building a branch bakery farther west were being discussed with vigour. When he became president the Society had many difficulties to contend with, not the least of which were inefficient workmen, while shortage of money retarded its operations to a very great extent. Mr Brown continued to act as chairman until his society—Paisley Provident—withdrew from membership at the end of 1880. All those who had the pleasure of knowing him speak of him as a cautious leader, shrewd and clear-sighted, who always took a business view of the proposals which came before the committee. Thus he was able to steer clear of the many pitfalls which lined the pathway of his Society.

ALEXANDER FRASER.

Mr Alexander Fraser succeeded Mr Brown in the chair. At the time of his appointment to the chair he had been continuously a member of the board of the Society from March 1873, as the representative of Busby Society, and he continued to perform the duties of president of the Society until the quarterly meeting which was held in December 1887. Mr Fraser had thus an unbroken connection with the committee of the Society for the long period of fourteen years, until then the longest period during which any member had filled a seat on the board. During his term of office he had seen the Society grow wondrously. He had seen it become too big for its home at St James Street, and had steered it safely to its new home, erected specially for its occupation, at M‘Neil Street, and he felt that, that task accomplished, he did well to lay aside his task. He was a worthy successor to Mr Brown and a worthy predecessor of the men who followed him.

JOHN FERGUSON.

Mr Fraser was succeeded by Mr John Ferguson, of Glasgow Eastern Society. Before Mr Ferguson came to the Baking Society’s board he had filled many positions of responsibility in the Eastern Society. He was member of the committee for a number of years, a member of the first educational committee of the society when it was formed in 1876, and was also president of the society for a number of years. In his own society and in the Baking Society he did good work for Co-operation, and was much respected by all who came into contact with him. He, too, joined the great majority a number of years ago.

DUNCAN M‘CULLOCH.

Mr Duncan M‘Culloch was born in the little village of Carfin in Lanarkshire. After serving his apprenticeship as a joiner in Wishaw, he came to Glasgow, and on marrying became connected with Kinning Park Society. In 1887 he was made president of the society, and afterwards a member of the then newly formed educational committee. He took a prominent part in the formation of the first branch of the Scottish Co-operative Women’s Guild—Kinning Park Central branch—and came to be known amongst the ladies of the guild as “The Father of the Guild,” a title of which he was justly proud. After having been for a short time a member of the committee of the Baking Society, he was elected chairman in 1889, and continued to occupy that honourable position for the long period of fifteen years. During these years the Baking Society entered on a period of expansion which raised it from the position of a moderately sized bakery, doing a trade of 700 sacks a week, to that of the largest institution of its kind, with a trade of almost 4,000 sacks weekly. He saw the biscuit factory started, and during his term of office the Clydebank branch was opened and the Belfast branch was commenced. Mr M‘Culloch also took a warm interest in the affairs of the Convalescent Homes Association, and he served for many years, until his death in the summer of 1915, as a director of this, “the brightest jewel in the Co-operative crown,” as the chairman of the Homes Association sometimes describes it. Mr M‘Culloch became again a president of Kinning Park Society, and there, as in the work of the Baking Society, he displayed enterprise, acumen, and firmness. He was a man of strong will and dominant personality, and his work on the various boards of the Co-operative movement with which he was associated was always marked by strong common sense. On the Co-operative Defence Committee and on the Scottish Sectional Board he was also a tower of strength; never favouring schemes or policies which were far in advance of the times, but never holding back when he thought action was for the benefit of the movement to which he had devoted the leisure moments of his life. For some time in 1915 he had been laid aside with illness, and as the Congress of that year met for its first session the news of his death arrived and cast a gloom over the minds of the Scotsmen present, who felt that one who had been all a man had gone from them.

JAMES H. FORSYTH.

The genial cashier of the Baking Society is one of the best known and most highly respected business men in the Co-operative movement. His balance-sheets are models of lucidity, and this feature is often commented on in the columns of the financial press. Mr Forsyth has had a lifelong acquaintance with Co-operative accounting. As a lad he entered the office of the Wholesale Society, and waited there until, as he himself has put it, he began to understand what double entry bookkeeping really was. Then a desire to see other lands possessed him for a time, and he voyaged to the great Republic of the West. He had been there for only two years, however, when the homing instinct possessed him, and returning to Glasgow, after a short interval, entered the office of the Baking Society as bookkeeper. Here he had been for some four years when Mr David Smith retired from the management of the Society, and the board, deciding that they were going to try and work the Society for a time at least without a manager, appointed Mr Forsyth cashier and bookkeeper, and cashier and bookkeeper he has been ever since. Mr Forsyth is one of those officials who treat the business for which they work as if it was their own. He is indefatigable in his efforts to maintain and even to improve the wellbeing and to accelerate the progress of the Baking Society, and during the strenuous years of the war, when the demands of the War Office were depleting his staff, nevertheless he “carried on” in a manner which won the approval of management and delegates alike. He is one of those careful, painstaking officials who are assets of great value to the societies fortunate enough to possess them.

JAMES YOUNG.

Mr James Young, the widely respected manager of the Baking Society, is an idealist turned business man. He has the vision of the poet, and is ever looking forward from the sordid to-day to the brighter and better to-morrow; but he is none the less a business man. He served on the board of the Baking Society as a representative of Uddingston Society for some three years before he was appointed, in 1899, manager of the Society. Since then he has conducted the business of the Society wisely and well, and his advice is eagerly sought after in matters connected with the trade. He is very popular with all with whom business brings him into contact, for he is recognised by all to be a man of high principle, who is incapable of stooping to anything mean. To this aspect of his character is probably due the remarkably good terms which have always existed between the Society and the employees, for he is kind and considerate to those whom fortune has placed under his charge. Unfortunately, in these latter years his health has not been quite as robust as his friends would like, but one and all hope that many years of service yet remain to him.

PETER GLASSE.

Mr Peter Glasse succeeded Mr Slater as secretary. He was the representative of St George on the board of the Baking Society at the time of Mr Slater’s resignation, and was for many years one of the most active Co-operators in the West of Scotland. He took a very active part in all the strenuous work which fell to the lot of good platform men during and after the boycott of 1896–97. On several occasions he served with distinction in the chair of his own society, and was for many years a member of the board of the Wholesale Society. He demitted office as secretary of the Baking Society in the spring of 1895. From 1896 until the merging of the West of Scotland Co-operative Defence Committee in the National Co-operative Defence Association, Mr Glasse acted as chairman of the committee, and then as chairman of the National Association until its work was merged in that of the Scottish Sectional Board. He died early in 1917 after a life which had been full of service to Co-operation.

D. H. GERRARD, J.P.

Mr Daniel H. Gerrard, J.P., is one of the best known figures in the Co-operative movement, and it is a matter for sincere regret to his many friends that he is not able to go out and in amongst them as of yore, and doubly regrettable that illness should have stricken him down two months before the Society for which he had worked so hard completed its fiftieth year of existence. Mr Gerrard is a Southerner, but he has lived so long in Scotland that he has become acclimatised. His first connection with Co-operation was with the second Maryhill Society, in the formation of which he took an active part, and of which he was president for many years. When that society amalgamated with St George he threw himself with equal vigour and success into the work of his new society, and ere long was appointed to the presidency. Then fifteen years ago he was elected to the chair of the Baking Society, and continued to act in that capacity until he was compelled by the orders of his medical man to give it up. He was an able and earnest advocate of Co-operation, and took an active part in the strenuous work of the boycott days as well as in Co-operative missionary work in Ireland and elsewhere. It is the earnest wish of all friends that in his retirement he will be long spared to look back with complacency over his many fights for the cause he loved.

JAMES BAIN.

Mr James Bain, the genial secretary of the Baking Society, has had a long and active connection with the cause of Co-operation in Glasgow. He succeeded Mr John Ferguson as chairman of Glasgow Eastern Society, and was chairman of that society when the Dalmarnock Road premises were opened in 1893. He was also treasurer of the society for a number of years. In the spring of 1895 he was elected secretary of the Baking Society in succession to Mr Glasse, and that position he continues to fill with honour to himself and profit to the Society. Nor, although the secretaryship of the Baking Society would seem to be enough spare-time work for any man, does he rest content with that. Ever since its formation he has acted as president of that beneficent Co-operative institution, the Co-operative Veterans Association. In his work for the Bakery he has always been conscientious and clear, and has also done much work which lies outside his special work as secretary. For example, he read a paper a number of years ago at a conference of representatives of the Glasgow societies, in which he advocated strongly the desirability of establishing a system of bread baking which would enable the bakers to begin their work at a reasonable hour. He is getting on in years now, but his minutes are as clearly written as ever, and his many friends hope that it will be long ere he has to lay down his secretarial pen.

THE PRESENT BOARD.

The members of the present board have served Co-operation well in many capacities, and several of them have had long years of service on the board of the Baking Society. Mr Buchanan, the present chairman, for instance, was elected to the board of the Society in the year in which Mr Bain became secretary. Mr M‘Lean has represented Glasgow Eastern Society for many years, and Mr Young St Rollox for a long period. Mr Monteith had done good work in St George Society before he came to M‘Neil Street, while this is equally true of Mr M‘Lay’s connection with Cowlairs. Mr Hamilton was for a number of years the representative of Pollokshaws Society, and his untimely death while this book was being written served to act as a reminder that “life is but a fleeting vapour.” Another member of the group who has done good service to Co-operation in his own society as well as in the Baking Society’s board is Mr Cadiz, for a number of years the energetic secretary of the Glasgow and Suburbs Conference Association. Mr Johnstone has done good service in Shettleston Society, and Mr Simpson in London Road Society; while Mr Walker, the “baby” of the board—he only joined it two months before the end of the fiftieth year—has been well known for a number of years as a representative of Clydebank Society.

Nor can we close this record of “men who wrought” without reference to some of the men who, while not quite so prominent in its affairs as others, yet had something to do with shaping the destinies of the Society. Prominent amongst such was Mr Alexander, who represented Paisley Provident Society on the board from the election of Mr Brown as president until their society withdrew from the Federation. For the greater part of the time he acted as treasurer of the Federation. Mr Ballantyne, of Thornliebank, also was one of the earliest members of the board, and continued to be associated with its work, as stable inspector, for many years. The late Mr James M‘Murran, of Glasgow Eastern, was the Federation’s last treasurer, the office being abolished during his tenure. Nor must the names of the late Homer Robertson and Michael Shiels be omitted. For a number of years Mr Robertson represented St George Society on the board, while Mr Shiels was for long the representative of Cowlairs Society, and both gentlemen died in harness within a few months of each other. For a long time two gentlemen very well known in another section of the Co-operative movement, Messrs Robert Macintosh and Allan Gray, acted together as auditors of the Society. Mr Wells, the respected secretary of Cambuslang Society, was an auditor of later date, retiring when the amended Industrial and Provident Societies Act of 1913 made it compulsory that auditors of Co-operative societies must be public auditors. He was succeeded by Mr John M. Biggar. The auditor who has served the members of the Society for the longest period, however, is Mr William H. Jack, who has audited the Society’s books for over twenty-one years, having been elected in September 1897 on the retiral of Mr Allan Gray.

The work of many others, who in one way and another helped while they could, has gone to build up the Society. They are gone, leaving often not even a name behind them, but the result of their labours is preserved as by a monument in the strong, virile Society of which we speak so familiarly as “The U.C.B.S.”

STATISTICS.

In general readers do not care much for statistics, but no record of the Society would be complete which did not give in some statistical form the growth which the Society has made during fifty years. The table given is not long, however, nor is it difficult to follow. It gives the position of the Society at the end of the first year, and at the end of each tenth year thereafter. In addition there are given the first balance-sheet issued by the Society and that issued for the 200th quarter. Readers can thus see for themselves the marvellous growth which we have tried, however inadequately, to picture.

Statistical Statement showing the development of the Federation during the Jubilee Period.

──────────────────────────────┬──────────┬───────┬───────────── TEN-YEAR PERIODS. │ No. of │ │ │Federated │Shares │ Shares and │Societies.│ Held. │ Deposits. ──────────────────────────────┼──────────┼───────┼───────────── │ │ │ £ s. d. 1869 (Commencement of Society)│ 8│ │ 1869 (January 1870) │ 8│ │ 193 12 0 1878 (January 1879) │ 23│ 4,217│ 6,251 6 7 1888 (January 1889) │ 39│ 10,037│ 33,209 9 10 1898 (January 1899) │ 94│ 80,231│143,681 12 3 1908 (January 1909) │ 169│155,915│356,254 19 3 1918 (January 1919) │ 211│241,643│556,841 16 6 ──────────────────────────────┴──────────┴───────┴─────────────

──────────────────────────────┬───────────────┬────────────┬──────────── TEN-YEAR PERIODS. │ │ │ │ │ │ Reserve │ Sales. │ Profits. │ Fund. ──────────────────────────────┼───────────────┼────────────┼──────────── │ £ s. d.│ £ s. d.│ £ s. d. 1869 (Commencement of Society)│ │ │ 1869 (January 1870) │ 5,081 13 6│ 23 3 1│ 1878 (January 1879) │ 27,433 6 10│ 1,850 5 5│ 696 11 5 1888 (January 1889) │ 55,699 15 9│ 3,313 0 5│ 1,352 10 0 1898 (January 1899) │ 327,328 3 4│26,845 0 2│ 7,400 0 0 1908 (January 1909) │ 567,604 19 5│43,561 9 0│37,400 0 0 1918 (January 1919) │1,251,224 5 9│62,615 15 5│89,500 0 0 ──────────────────────────────┴───────────────┴────────────┴────────────

──────────────────────────────┬─────────────┬───────────┬────────── TEN-YEAR PERIODS. │ │ Paid for │ Paid for │ │Educational│Charitable │Depreciation.│ Purposes. │Purposes. ──────────────────────────────┼─────────────┼───────────┼────────── │ £ s. d.│ £ s. d.│ £ s. d. 1869 (Commencement of Society)│ │ │ 1869 (January 1870) │ 30 15 8│ │ 1878 (January 1879) │ 440 1 3│ 8 2 0│ 5 5 0 1888 (January 1889) │ 913 9 9│ 6 0 0│ 21 0 0 1898 (January 1899) │ 8,890 6 1│ 474 3 8│ 309 9 4 1908 (January 1909) │ 13,967 4 9│ 876 13 10│ 907 3 10 1918 (January 1919) │ 29,845 12 6│1,424 13 1│ 643 13 9 ──────────────────────────────┴─────────────┴───────────┴──────────

Dr. CAPITAL ACCOUNT

─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── LIABILITIES. To Members’ Claims, as per Share Ledger £193 12 0 „ „ Building Fund 145 0 0 „ Owing Messrs Penman £104 0 0 „ „ Gibson & Walker 150 15 0 „ „ Scottish Wholesale Society 86 19 7 „ „ R. Geddes & Sons 18 7 6 „ „ M. Muir & Sons 34 15 0 „ „ R. Taylor 6 14 0 „ „ P. Bertram 1 5 9 ———— —— —— 402 16 10 „ Profit 64 4 10 ———— —— —— £805 13 8 ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════

Dr. CAPITAL ACCOUNT ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── LIABILITIES. =241,643= Shares at 20 each £=241,643= 0 0 Less Unpaid 703 10 0 ————————— —— —— £240,939 10 0 Societies’ Deposits at 12 Months’ Notice of Withdrawal 93,571 6 1 Societies’ Deposits at Call 104,462 6 6 Surplus Credited to Societies’ Deposits Account 31,837 4 0 ——————— —— —— £470,810 6 7 Deposits (Private) at 12 Months’ Notice of Withdrawal £55,838 7 8 Deposits (Private) at Call 30,193 2 3 ——————— —— —— 86,031 9 11 Societies Overpaid 5,980 1 1 Bonus for Half-year 4,770 0 4 Rents 12 15 0 St Mungo Hall Rents Paid in Advance 5 0 0 Balance of Taxes, Insurance, and Telephones 4,974 13 5 Goods Account 13,075 14 0 Expenses Account 1,863 9 2 ———————— —— —— Total Liabilities £587,523 9 6 RESERVES— Reserve Fund £89,500 0 0 Insurance Fund— Fire and Marine £24,900 0 0 Employers’ Liability 5,680 0 0 Third Party 2,180 0 0 ——————— —— —— 32,760 0 0 Educational and Benevolent Fund 2,337 8 4 Balance to next Half-year 1,845 15 4 ——————— —— —— 126,443 3 8 ———————— —— —— £713,966 13 2 ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════

1869 (JANUARY 1870). Cr. ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── ASSETS. By Cash in Bank and on hand £118 2 10 „ Flour, etc., in Stock £87 10 7 „ Rent Due 1 10 0 „ Owing by Societies 244 5 1 „ Fixed Stock 243 15 8 „ New Buildings, Paid to Account 110 9 6 ——— —— —— 687 10 10 ———— —— —— £805 13 8 ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════

1918 (JANUARY 1919). Cr. ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── ASSETS. Investments, as per Investment Account— Shares £33,812 18 7 Deposits 348,257 18 6 ——————— —— —— £382,070 17 1 Goods in Stock— M‘Neil Street £28,384 13 9 Clydebank Branch 7,255 16 8 Rothesay Branch 278 15 4 Belfast Branch 5,922 15 8 Camp 18 0 0 Purvey Department 413 11 1 St Mungo Halls 17 7 4 ——————— —— —— 42,290 19 10 Stock of Provender in Stables— Glasgow £445 0 7 Clydebank 101 17 5 ——————— —— —— 546 18 0 Goods Account Prepaid 47,236 8 5 Goods Account £27,841 1 1 Sundries Account 242 7 9 Bread Delivery, Hire, and Shoeing Account 16 17 0 Manure and Hayseed 33 4 10 ——————— —— —— 28,133 10 8 Rents— Tenements—Govan Street £87 7 6 M‘Neil Street East 96 10 0 Belfast 29 5 0 St Mungo Halls 46 1 3 ——————— —— —— 259 3 9 Land and Buildings 201,500 0 0 Cash in Banks £11,764 14 11 Cash on hand 164 0 6 ———————— —— —— 11,928 15 5 ———————— £713,966 13 2 ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════

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OUR FALLEN HEROES

=Pro patria mortui=

GLASGOW

Seaman JOHN FRASER. ]

Pte. GEORGE BANKS, Scottish Rifles

Mason

Killed, July 1915 ]

Drummer ROBERT M‘DONALD, H.L.I.

Tinsmith

Died, 5th September 1915 ]

Sergt. JAMES COLLINS, Seaforths

Biscuit Baker

Killed, 15th September 1915 ]

Pte. HARRY MEDDICKS, H.L.I.

Biscuit Baker

Killed, 15th September 1915 ]

Seaman JAMES NICOL, R.N.D.

Warehouseman

Died, 30th November 1915 ]

Pte. DOUGAL FERGUSON, H.L.I.

Mason

Killed, 27th January 1916 ]

Pte. CHARLES SMITH ANDERSON, Gordons

Pastry Baker

Killed, 17th March 1916 ]

Pte. JAMES JACK JARVIE, Gordons

Pastry Baker

Died of Wounds, 2nd July 1916 ]

Pte. WILLIAM C. FULTON, Camerons

Pastry Baker

Died of Wounds, 21st August 1916 ]

Pte. JOHN DELAHUNTY, Irish Guards

Baker’s Assistant

Killed, 15th September 1916 ]

Pte. WILLIAM H. CULLEN, H.L.I.

Pastry Baker

Killed, 31st October 1916 ]

Pte. ALEXANDER M‘LEOD. H.L.I.

Pastry Baker

Killed, 18th November 1916 ]

Sergt. ALEXANDER STEEL, H.L.I.

Storeman

Killed, 17th November 1916 ]

Pte. JOHN NEWLANDS, Gordons

Pastry Baker

Killed, 29th March 1917 ]

Pte. WILLIAM NIMMO, Gordons

Pastry Baker

Killed, 4th March 1917 ]

Pte. JOHN CAMPBELL SINCLAIR, Seaforths

Pastry Baker

Killed, 23rd April 1917 ]

Pte. JOHN BALLANTYNE, Royal Scots

Clerk

Killed, 23rd April 1917 ]

Pte. JOHN KENNEDY, Royal Scots Fusiliers

Clerk

Killed, 23rd April 1917 ]

Pte. CHARLES HAMILTON, Scottish Rifles

Warehouseman

Killed, 3rd May 1917 ]

Pte. JAMES KENNEDY, H.L.I.

Biscuit Baker

Killed, 27th June 1917 ]

Pte. PETER THOMSON, Gordons

Pastry Baker

Killed, 31st July 1917 ]

Gunner ROBERT SUMMERS, R.F.A.

Vanman

Killed, 21st July 1917 ]

Pte. JOSEPH M‘ALEER, H.L.I.

Painter

Killed, 10th July 1917 ]

Pte. GEORGE DODDS, Camerons

Vanman

Killed, 1st August 1917 ]

Pte. THOMAS URQUHART, Camerons

Hoistman

Died of Wounds, 22nd September 1917 ]

Pte. ALEXANDER M‘LEOD, H.L.I.

Clerk

Killed, 27th September 1917 ]

Pte. ALAN CRAWFORD, Machine Gun Corps

Warehouse Clerk

Killed, 24th October 1917 ]

Lce.-Cpl. ALLAN F. KERR, Royal Scots

Vanman

Killed, 22nd October 1917 ]

Lce.-Cpl. HECTOR HARVEY, Gordons

Bread Baker

Killed, 16th November 1917 ]

Cpl. GEORGE DICKIE, Scottish Rifles

Pastry Baker

Killed, 14th January 1918 ]

Pte. ALEXANDER WATSON, Royal Scots

Bread Baker

Killed, 28th March 1918 ]

Pte. JOHN REID, R.A.S.C.

Vanman

Killed, 19th April 1918 ]

Pte. ROBERT GARDNER, Camerons

Pastry Baker

Killed, April 1918 ]

Pte. THOMAS FAULDS, Scottish Rifles

Motor Driver

Killed, 10th October 1918 ]

Pte. AARON KERR, Royal Scots Fusiliers

Painter

Killed, 10th October 1918 ]

Lead.-Signalman JAMES M‘PHERSON, R.N.V.R.

Bread Baker

Died, 2nd November 1918 ]

CLYDEBANK BRANCH

Pte. JAMES M‘GINLEY, R.A.S.C.

Motor Driver

Killed, 7th June 1915 ]

Lce.-Cpl. JAMES HENDRIE, Argylls

Baker

Killed, 24th April 1917 ]

Pte. ROBERT STEVENSON, Lancashire Fusiliers

Baker

Killed, 19th August 1917 ]

Pte. JAMES AGNEW, Royal Scots

Warehouseman

Killed, 6th October 1917 ]

Cpl. ROBERT NIXON, R.A.S.C.

Baker

Killed, 21st March 1918 ]

Pte. DONALD H. GRANT, Camerons

Baker

Killed, 28th March 1918 ]

Pte. ROBERT HOPE, Argylls

Baker

Killed, September 1918 ]

BELFAST BRANCH

Sergt. SAMUEL LOWRY, D.C.M., R.I.R.

Baker’s Assistant

Killed, 1st July 1916 ]

Lce.-Cpl. JAMES M‘INTOSH, R.I.R.

Warehouseman

Killed, 1st July 1916 ]

Bugler SAMUEL WARD, R.I.R.

Baker

Killed, 1st September 1916 ]

Pte. EDWARD ROWNEY, R.I.R.

Baker’s Assistant

Killed, April 1917 ]

Pte. FRANK TAGGART, R.A.S.C.

Baker

Died, August 1918 ]

LEITH DEPOT

Pte. THOMAS ALSTON, Royal Scots

Motor Driver

Killed, 23rd July 1916 ]

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TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES

1. Silently corrected obvious typographical errors and variations in spelling. 2. Retained archaic, non-standard, and uncertain spellings as printed. 3. Re-indexed footnotes using numbers. 4. Enclosed italics font in underscores. 5. Enclosed bold font in =equals=.