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Joe O'Raw who lives in Craigneuk has
kindly donated the following pages to the group, his hope is that we will
be able to add more material. His dedication to his friend Jimmy Johnstone
is below. This compilation is no way exhaustive as the memorial presents
details of only those who signed up as resident in Shotts, and does
not include those who may have moved away for work etc. We have in the
past tried requesting information, with no success, so perhaps with the
information we have published here, more will be forthcoming. Also, we feel it would be nice if local survivors and perhaps with some of their stories/memoirs. Please note, this information as with all our site, is intellectual copyright, so please do not plagiarise. We offer it freely but not for publication on other Web sites. |
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JIMMY JOHNSTONE
This Memorial Book is dedicated to Jimmy Johnstone, who was the inspiration behind my compiling the book. Jimmy was a Shotts man through and through, and never lost his love of Shotts and the people who lived there. When I had compiled several other memorial books for various other local villages and churches etc; Jimmy mentioned he would love to see a book about the men from Shotts who died and served in the twoWorld Wars. I decided to surprise him by compiling a book about the fallen of Shotts in the1939 – 1945 war, sadly Jimmy took very ill and I lost the race to have the book finished for him, when he died two weeks before the book was completed. With his death I lost one of the best friends and one of nicest men I ever knew. May he rest in peace.
Joe O’Raw
FALLEN BY DISTRICT 1939
SHOTTS DISTRICT FALLEN BY REGIMENT
We have had some
problems transferring this from the original database
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