Officer laid to rest

A Stirling army officer was laid to rest in the town’s cemetery after he died in a road accident in Kent.

Lt George Low Gilmour, Royal Engineers, was killed on August 9, 1917, when the motor cycle he was riding collide with an ambulance near Sandwich.

He was thrown from the machine, knocked unconscious and severely injured.

Lt Gilmour died on August 12, 1917, having failed to regain consciousness.

The 30-year-old son of Mr George Gilmour, a Glasgow silk merchant, 6 Gladstone Place, Stirling, was married to Miss Joan Cullens, daughter of Mr James Cullens, butcher, Stirling.

Sympathy was extended to Miss Cullens and her two children.

Lt Gilmour worked in the silk business with his father but later entered the motor engineering industry.

He joined the Army six months earlier, obtaining a commission in the Royal Engineers Inland Water Transport division, and proved himself a capable officer singled out for promotion.

Lt Gilmour’s military funeral at Holy Trinity Church was attended by an officer and 40 men from his regiment.

Major G White, in a letter to the lieutenant’s wife, said he was a reliable and steady officer who had transformed his department from a chaotic state to one of efficiency.