On This Day...

1st July 1815 - John Lambie, son of James and Janet Hamilton, is born in Chapelton.

1st July 1827 - Felix Boylan, son of Felix & Mary Dobbie, is born in Kilmarnock.

1st July 1865 - Joseph Blake, RIC Constable, converts to Catholicism following his marriage to Mary Eaton in Ireland.

1st July 1874 - Malcolm McIntyre Lambie, son of James and Janet Spence McIntyre, is born in Cambusnethan, Lanarkshire.

1st July 1897 - Patrick Boylan plays for Greenock Morton in a 3-4 defeat to Motherwell in Division 2 at Cappielow.

1st July 1952 - Robin David Lambie, son of William Robert Stevenson and Dorothy Finkbeiner, is born in London, Ontario, Canada.

2nd July 1865 - John Hamilton Lambie, son of James Hamilton Lammie and Isabella Hamilton, is born in Avondale.

2nd July 1944 - Sgt John M Weir flies on operations to Domleger in Lancaster LM597.

2nd July 1989 - Margaret Homer, wife of John Lambie, dies in Shrewsbury aged 78.

3rd July 1946 - Laura Darlene Lambie, daughter of John Campbell and Elsie Page, is born in Saskatchewan, Canada.

3rd July 1975 - James Houston Lambie, son of Archibald Cumming Lambie and Jessie Morrison Houston, dies in Glasgow aged 55.

4th July 1944 - Sgt John M Weir flies on operations to Orleans in Lancaster JB555.

4th July 1963 - William Lambie, son of Robert Reid Lambie and Mary Best, dies in Los Angeles, California USA.

5th July 1944 - Sgt John M Weir flies on operations to Dijon in Lancaster JB555.

5th July 1964 - Alice (Lambie) Thornton dies in Glasgow.

5th July 1987 - Mary McTavish Blackwood, daughter of Flora Morrison, dies at Crosshouse Hospital, aged 80.

6th July 1944 - Sgt John M Weir in Lancaster JB555 was diverted to Coningsby.

7th July 1876 - John Lambie marries Jessie Davidson in Govan, Glasgow.

7th July 1916 - Jessie Lambie (sister of Claud) marries Robert Tallo in Greenock.

7th July 1944 - Sgt John M Weir flies on operations to Caen in Lancaster JA868. 

8th July 1896 - Daniel Boylan is killed by a train in the Cartsburn railway tunnel.

9th July 1868 - Edward Butchart, son of Margaret Butchart, is born in Panbride, Forfar.

9th July 1891 - John Lammie, son of John and Elizabeth Ingram, marries Agnes Drummond in Blackfriars, Glasgow.

9th July 1896 - Report of a body found by the railway in The Greenock Telegraph.

9th July 1898 - Rosina Conlon divorces James Smith.

9th July 1942 - Claud (Ryan) Lambie (son of TD Ryan) born in Glasgow, Scotland.

9th July 1942 - Thomas John Kinloch Lambie, son of John and Margaret Homer, is born in Shrewsbury, England.

9th July 1942 - Thomas John Kinloch Lambie, son of John and Margaret Homer, is born in Shrewsbury.

10th July 1872 - Claud Lambie, son of William and Agnes Brown, is born in Anderston, Glasgow.

10th July 1893 - Peter McGourty (brother of Nora) born at 52 Douglas Street, Partick.

10th July 1896 - Daniel Boylan's body identified (from The Greenock Telegraph).

10th July 1944 - Sgt John M Weir flies in Lancaster JB555 in fighter affiliation training.

11th July 1858 - William Hamilton, son of John Hamilton and Janet Lambie, is born in Chapelton.

11th July 1944 - Sgt John M Weir flies on operations to Revigny in Lancaster PB265 but is diverted to bomb marshalling yards. (Pictured above in Lancaster PB265)