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Robert Pollock Conochie |
CWGC:
Rank: Second Lieutenant
Regiment: Cameronians (Scottish Rifles), 8th Battalion
Date of Death: 18th May 1918
Age: 23
Buried: Sucrerie Cemetery, Ablain-St. Nazaire
Additional Information: Son of James Conochie and of the late Ann McKell or Conochie, Ardoch, Mount Vernon, Glasgow. Native of Mount Vernon.
SNWM:
Rank: Second Lieutenant
Regiment: Cameronians (Scottish Rifles), 8th Battalion
Place of Birth: Glasgow
Date of Death: 18th May 1918
Place of Death: France
SDGW:
Rank: Second Lieutenant
Regiment: Cameronians (Scottish Rifles), 8th Battalion (Territorial)
Date of Death: 19th May 1918
Cause of Death: Killed in Action
MIC:
R. P. Conochie, Private, 5th Battalion, Scottish Rifles, No. 6465, Second Lieutenant/Lieutenant, 8th Battalion, Scottish Rifles.
Commissioned 8th Battalion. Date of Death: 18th May 1918.
Addresses: Ardoch, Mount Vernon, Glasgow & Masonic Hall, Galashiels
Medal Entitlement: 1914 Star, British War & Victory Medals
Soldier’s Effects:
Second Lieutenant, R. P. Conochie, 8th Battalion, Scottish Rifles. Killed in Action 18th May 1918.
Father James Conochie, Brother James Archibald Meikle Conochie, Sister Helen Jessie Jemima Conochie.
London Gazette, 14th September 1917, Supplement 30283, Page 9525:
War Office, 14th September 1917. Territorial Force
The undermentioned, from Officer Cadet Units, to be 2nd Lieutenants. 29th August 1917: Scottish Rifles: Robert Pollock Conochie.
Glasgow Herald, 25th May 1918. ‘Deaths on Service’
Conochie. Killed in action on 19th inst., R. Pollock Conochie, Second Lieutenant, Scottish Rifles, younger son of James Conochie and of the late Ann McKell, Ardoch, Mount Vernon.
The Scotsman, 27th May 1918. ‘Biographical Notes’
Second Lieutenant R. Pollock Conochie, Scottish Rifles (killed) was the son of Mr James Conchie, Ardoch, Mount Vernon, Glasgow.
Tollcross Cemetery:
Erected by James Conochie in memory of his wife
Ann McKell who died 22nd May 1912
Their daughters
Ann Murray Meikle died 9th June 1891
Martha McGill died 17th May 1894
Their son 2nd Lieutenant Robert Pollock, 8th Scottish Rifles
Killed in action 18th May 1918, interred in Sucrerie Cemetery, France
James Conochie who died 17th February 1923
Annie McPhee Conochie who died 17th December 1943 aged 19 years, daughter of James A. M. Conochie who died 5th September 1944
Also, Mary Ann McPhee Stobo, wife of the above who died 18th October 1963
Listed on Tollcross Y.M.C.A. Memorial: Robert P. Conochie.
Listed on Sandyhills Golf Club Memorial:
Robert P. Conochie, 5th Scottish Rifles
1901 Census, Living at Ardoch,Villa, Old Monkland Western (Mount Vernon), Lanarkshire
Father James Conochie, age 48, Commercial Traveller, born Bothkennar, Stirlingshire
Mother Ann Conochie, age 45, born West Kilbride, Ayrshire
Children: James A. Conochie, age 6, Scholar, born Old Monkland
Robert P. Conochie, age 5, Scholar, born Old Monkland
Helen J. J. Conochie, age 3, born Old Monkland
