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32nd Glasgow Boys
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TIMELINE
32th Glasgow Company, the Boys Brigade was
formed 17 May 1886 and was attached to
Piccadilly Mission Wellington Church
In session 1932-1933
the company church changed to Wellington Church
Anderston Congregation
In session 1938-1939
the company church changed to
Wellington Church
In session 1950-1951
the company church
changed to St.Mark's
Lancefield Church
In session 1962-1963
the company closed and had a
union with the 17th
Glasgow
In session 1990-1991
the company attached to
Anderston Parish Church and
had Union with 41st
Glasgow & 227th Glasgow
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Colour Party
of the 32nd Glasgow
on the steps of Wellington Church,
University Avenue, 1936.
The Officer carrying the
King’s Colour is Tom Ewing,
and carrying the Company Colour
is Andrew McPherson.
Andrew
McPherson, son of the Glasgow Battalion
Secretary, served with Bomber Command during
the Second World War and was the first
person to be awarded the DFC (Distinguished
Flying Cross); shortly after receiving the
award he was killed when his aircraft was
shot down over Holland...
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Nov.2010, extract from
email, Ewan MacPherson, trustee of the Clan
MacPherson Museum, Newtonmore.
I am a Trustee of the Clan Macpherson Museum,
Newtonmore - a Registered Scottish Charity and
have special voluntary responsibility for
looking after the exhibits and displays.
I am at present researching Flying Officer
Andrew McPherson, DFC who was the first
person to cross the German frontier in WWII - on
the 3 September 1939. He was the awarded the DFC
for his action His father was the
full-time secretary of the Boys Brigade HQ in
Bath Street, Glasgow.
I would be most grateful if I could have
permission to use the photograph shown under
'Boys Brigade 32nd Anderston' of Andrew
McPherson in 1936 in our museum exhibit and also
in our clan magazine 'Creag Dhubh',
please.
Your website would of course be acknowledged.
With kind regards,
Ewen MacPherson
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Nov.2010, extract from
email, John Cooper
.......re the
photograph of the 32nd Glasgow Boys' Brigade
Company Colour Party on the steps of
Wellington Church
(1936) which features Andrew
McPherson. I was aware that Andrew
was the son of the Battalion Secretary, and
that he was the first, certainly of
Bomber Command, if not the RAF, to be awarded
the DFC during the Second World War... I
think he was awarded the medal for
carrying out a mission at the very beginning
of the war in September 1939 (?). If I
recall correctly he was killed when the
Blenheim bomber he was flying was shot
down in May 1940 - I am pretty
sure that Pilot
Officer McPherson and some of his
crew lie buried in Heverlee Cemetery,
Holland.... Hope this info is correct. |
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Sergeants of the 32nd Glasgow
taken in 1892
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Page 2 ....See 1892 Boys
Brigade
Flute Band and 1983 BB Brass Band
By kind
permission of John
N Cooper All
Part of the Story
A CONCISE HISTORY of
THE BOYS’ BRIGADE
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ANDERSTON DISTRICT of GLASGOW |
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