Sunday 19 February 2017

In Memory of the Toll Boys

It would be easy to overlook this memorial plaque on the wall of a tenement building in Robert Street, Port Glasgow.  It commemorates local men who died in World War I - Port Glasgow's Toll Boys, so called because there used to be a toll house in the area.


The following are the names on the memorial:-

Royal Garrison Artillery
W Burnside
Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders
N Collins, P Couper, S Gilmour, R Graham, S Kane, J Love, J McGhie, J McKay, D Mooney, A Orr,
S Ptolmey
1st Royal Dragoons
Couper A
Naval Division
J Duffy, S Gourley, S Mitchell
Cameron Highlanders
A Logan, J Kincaid, A McKay, G Potter
Highland Light Infantry
J Logan
Royal Scots
F McCorkindale
Iniskillen Fusiliers
A McLean
Seaforth Highlanders
J Rorrison
Royal Field Artillery
J Sheilds, W Tanner
Royal Navy
G Simpson, D Wilson
Durham Light Infantry
T Walker
  

1914 PRO PATRIA 1918
Erected in
Grateful Memory
of the
Toll Boys
who fell in the Great War
"Their name liveth for evermore"




Where to look for more information
If you have a relative from this area who may have died in the Great War, then Inverclyde Council on the Family History section of their website have a section in Intimations called Soldiers and Sailors of Inverclyde 1914 - 1918 which lists all the death notices of servicemen which appeared in the local newspaper.  It gives lots of details of date of death, regiment, family etc.  The McLean Museum also have a site called Inverclyde's Great War - again this has lots of information both about local people and the war itself - a fabulous resource.  There's another list of local men named on War Memorials here.
We have some really fabulous resources here in Inverclyde.

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