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Private Alexander McIntyre - 'Nethy Bridge reservist'
13/01/2025
First World War Army United Kingdom ABERNETHY PARISH CHURCHYARD, INVERNESS-SHIRE
By Susan Strang

United Kingdom

Private A McIntyre
327503

Born: 09.04.1862, birth registered at Inverallan

Rank: Private

Regiment: Cameron Highlanders 1/4th Bn reserve list Service no 2406

Died: 06 March 1916, aged 53 years. Place of death: possibly Manse Cottage.

Cause: peritonitis. 

War gratuity record suggests his wife was a guardian of a child Mary A. Alexander married on 07.12.1915, at the Church Manse Abernethy, Isabella McLean Morrison a spinster and domestic servant, aged 39 residing at the Sanatorium, Kinnoull, Perthshire.

Isabella may have been born in Methven, Perthshire in 1874 and possibly died in Perth in 1950. Her parents were James Morrison, mason and Jane m.s. Anderson both deceased at the time of her marriage.

Parents were father Donald McIntyre, railway wayman and mother Isabella (Bella) McIntyre m.s. McDonald. Sister Miss Nan McIntyre, Doulaig, Grantown on Spey and Miss A McIntyre of Causer, Nethy Bridge both sited in CWGC paper work.

Remembered on Nethy Bridge Memorial at Abernethy Golf Club. 

"The monument (at the 8th and signature hole) is a war memorial for the fallen in World War 1 and 2. Over the years many visitors have remarked about the unusual if not unique siting for a war memorial in the middle of a golf course. However for the parishioners of Abernethy it was an admirable site because at the time nearly all the forests had been felled and the memorial could be seen from every corner of the parish."