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Robert Murdoch
Died: 21st March 1918
8th Battalion Black Watch 35109
Robert was born at Kirkbraefoot Cottage, Main Street, Inverkip on 10th March 1893. His parents were Alexander and Elizabeth (m/s Stout) who were married on the Isle of Bute in 1875. Robert was the youngest of 9 children and was a gardener at the Ardgowan Estate.
On 4th September 1914, Robert married Jessie Keir Jack Forbes, a dairymaid from Airdrie. They had two children, Alexander born in 1914 and Margaret (Peggy) born in 1917.
Robert served in the 8th Battalion Black Watch and was killed on 21st March 1918. He is remembered at the Pozieres Memorial and the Inverkip Memorial.
It appears Jessie returned to North Lanarkshire while her husband was on active service. She remarried on 30th December 1923 to Peter Penman. They had three children; Helen, Jessie and Janet (Nettie).
Grateful thanks to Tom Murdoch, Private Robert Murdoch's grandson for the photograph and additional information on the family.
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