New Names Added To University War Memorial

New names are to be added to the University of Glasgow's First World War memorial after a research project uncovered their stories.

Among the 19 names are a successful rugby player, who was capped for Scotland, a respected doctor and a grocer's son, who cut short his studies to join the war effort.

A century after the end of the war their names will be carved in stone alongside those of the men and women already remembered in the University Memorial Chapel.

Researchers identified the additional names through digital resources and confirmed their connection to the university using student records held by the University of Glasgow Archives.

Katie McDonald, a researcher with the College of Arts, University of Glasgow, said: "We are still piecing together the stories behind the names of the fallen and ask anyone who has any information about them and any pictures of them to get in touch.”

One of those being honoured is Captain William Campbell Church who played rugby for Scotland against Wales in 1906.

He started studying mercantile law at the university in 1905 and became a stockbroker, but enlisted with the 8th Battalion Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) during the First World War.

Captain Church was 32 when he was killed by machine gun fire at Gallipoli in 1913. His body was never found.

Captain William Turner was a doctor in Saltcoats, Ayrshire after gaining a first class degree in surgery at the University of Glasgow.

When war broke out, the father-of-three joined the Royal Army Medical Corps but he returned home to fight the acute pneumonia he had contracted on active service, and died in April 1918 at the age of 43.

His name was not recorded originally because he died in hospital in England rather than being killed in action.

Private Archibald James Shanks Morrison from Whithorn, Wigtonshire, was the son of a grocer who matriculated in 1916 aged 17. He studied for one year before joining the King's Own Scottish Borderers

He was killed in action in May 1918 and his memorial is in Tannay, British Cemetery in Thiennes.

Families, schools and communities with connections to the fallen are invited to the chapel for memorial services on November 11.