On This Day...

1st August 1865 - Joseph Blake is stationed at Castlefin, Co.Donegal in the RIC.

1st August 1925 - Jessie Robertson Sinclair Bruce, wife of Robert Dunipace Lambie is born.

1st August 1940 - Kurt Pauli is commissioned as an  SS Untersturmführer, assigned to 2nd Platoon of the SS Motorcycle Replacement Company.

2nd August 1839 - Christina Davidson, wife of Alexander Lambie, is born in Perth, Scotland.

2nd August 1864 - William Murphy,father of Rachel Graham Weir, dies in Shotts aged 70.

2nd August 1950 - Terry Fetterley, daughter of Harry and Dorothy Sabina Lambie, is born in North Bay, Ontario, Canada.

3rd August 1816 - Janet Weir, daughter of James and Catherine Brown, is born in Carnwath.

3rd August 1883 - Jane Glen, wife of Thomas Morrison, dies in West Maryston aged 62.

3rd August 1884 - Thomas Ryan marries Ellen Davies in West Derby, Liverpool, Lancashire.

4th August 1857 - Donald MacGregor, son of Donald and Lucy Mackay, dies in Cambuslang of TB, aged 3 months.

4th August 1916 - Roy Butchart, future husband of Elizabeth McGourty, is posted on service to The Labour Corps in WW1.

4th August 1983 - Thomas Davis Ryan 'divorces' Annie Lambie.

5th August 1869 - William Lambie, son of William and Ann Dunipace, is born in Barrhead.

5th August 1916 - Roy Butchart is arrested 'when on active service disobeying a lawful command given by his superior officer."

7th August 1823 - Marion Weir, daughter of James and Catherine Brown, is born in Carnwath.

7th August 1964 - Thomas Nelson MacTavish dies in the Royal Infirmary, Glasgow aged 67.

8th August 1974 - Andrew Anderson, son of William and Robina Mair Lambie, dies in Clydebank aged 63.

9th August 1899 - Kathleen McGourty (Sister of Nora) born in Glasgow.

9th August 1925 - Thomas Ryan dies at 31 Lumsden Street, Anderston aged 78 years.

9th August 1940 - George Clark Johnston, husband of Janet Spence McIntyre Lambie, dies in Canada.

10th August 1887 - Alexander McTavish Morrison, son of John and Mary McTavish, is born in West Maryston.

10th August 1932 - John J Armstrong, husband of Elizabeth Blake, dies in West Goshen, Pennsylvania aged 61.

10th August 1944 - Kurt Pauli of SS-Panzer-Aufklärungs-Abteilung 10 "Frundsberg" attacks Barenton in Normandy.(Pictured below, second from right)

11th August 1841 - Catherine Davidson, sister of Christina, is born in Perth, Scotland.

11th August 1916 - Roy Butchart is tried and convicted of disobeying an order in The Labour Corps and sentenced to 6 months imprisonment.

11th August 1950 - Elizabeth Simpson, wife of John Lambie, dies in Vancouver, Canada.

11th August 1969 - Neil Edward Gillespie, son of Edward and Sandra Elizabeth Lambie, is born in Coventry, England.

12th August 1880 - Joshua Smith, RN transfers service as 1st Engineer from HMS Excellent to HMS Medway in Portsmouth.

13th August 1909 - Patrick Boylan dies at 2 McDougall Street. Greenock aged 70 years.

14th August 1895 - George Tait Weir (brother of John) is born in Gartlea Road, Airdrie.

14th August 1898 - Ellen Ryan (Sister of Robert) born in Glasgow.