We Will Remember Them

 

This page is dedicated not just to the Rangers players who served but to all who served

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Serjeant JAMES H. SPIERS

Military Medal

S/18170, 7th Bn., Cameron Highlanders
who died age 31
on 20 August 1917

Remembered with honour
DOCHY FARM NEW BRITISH CEMETERY

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Private D MURRAY
S/3655, 8th Bn., Seaforth Highlanders
who died age 21
on 06 October 1915
Son of William and Elizabeth Murray, of 16, Nutal Place, Cowdenbeath, Fife.
Remembered with honour
LAPUGNOY MILITARY CEMETERY

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Second Lieutenant WALTER DANIEL JOHN TULL
17th Bn. attd. 23rd Bn., Middlesex Regiment
(formerly 5th Bn.)
who died age 29
on 25 March 1918
Son of the late Daniel Tull; brother of Edward Tull-Warnock, of 419, St. Vincent St., Glasgow. Former
Remembered with honour
ARRAS MEMORIAL

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Corporal John Fleming

8th Battalion Cameron Highlanders

(died on 21 March 1916 in a Military Hospital Yorkshire)

Remembered with honour

Inveresk Parish Churchyard

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Alexander Barrie

Corporal in the 2nd Highland Light Infantry

who died aged 40

on 01 October 1918

Remembered with honour

Flesquieres Hill British Cemetery, Nord, France

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Service Records of Rangers players

 

Dr. James Paterson Captain

14th Battalion - London Regiment - London Scottish

Military Cross

Andy Cunningham 2nd Lieutenant

Gunner - Royal Field Artillery

Jimmy Gordon Sergeant

Highland Light Infantry

Willie Reid Gunner

Royal Field Artillery 52nd Lowland Division

Fred Gray 2nd Lieutenant

9th Battalion Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)

Military Cross

James H. Speirs 2nd Lieutenant

7th Battalion Cameron Highlanders 15th Scottish Division

Military Medal

Jimmy Galt 2nd Lieutenant

Argyle and Sutherland Highlanders

John Fleming Corporal

8th Battalion Cameron Highlanders

John Clarke Rifleman

16th Battalion Royal Irish Rifles (36th Ulster Division)

Tommy Muirhead 2nd Lieutenant

1st/2nd Battalion King's Own Scottish Borderers

David B. Murray Private

8th Battalion Seaforth Highlanders 15th Scottish Division

Tom Gilchrist

1st/2nd Battalion Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders

Finlay Speedie Private

Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders

Military Medal

Scott Duncan Signalling Instructor

Royal Field Artillery

Jimmy Low 2nd Lieutenant

6th Battalion Seaforth Highlanders

Tom McDonald

Royal Horse Artillery

John McKeown

Bovill Rifleman Royal Irish Rifles

Dr. William F. Kivlichan Lieutenant

Royal Army Medical Corps attached King's Own African Rifles

Alex Bennett

Cameronians Scottish Rifles

John Bertram Jackson

Royal Scots Fusiliers

George Turner Livingstone

Royal Army Medical Corps

David Taylor

Royal Field Artillery

Walter Daniel Tull 2nd Lieutenant

t 5th Battalion Middlesex Regiment

British War and Victory Medal and the 'Military Cross

John Rankin

Royal Army Medical Corps

R. Smith Mechanic

Royal Flying Corps

Sandy Archibald

was stationed at the Curragh Camp, Co. Kildare.

 

Tom Sinclair

Army details unknown

 

James Yound

Army details unknown

 

David Brown

Army details unknown

 

Jock Buchanan Sergeant

Army details unknown

Distinguished Conduct Medal

 

John 'Jackie' Bovill (1886-1935)

Royal Irish Rifles

 

George Dickson

details unknown

 

Jimmy Lister

details unknown

 

John McCulloch

details unknown

 

 

Wounded in Action

 

John Clarke

Tommy Muirhead

Finlay Speedie

Jimmy Low

John Bovill

Willie Kivlichan

James Paterson

John McCulloch

James Galt

 

 

The following Players served during World War II

 

BRITISH ARMY
Willie Thornton (Trooper - Scottish Horse Regiment)(awarded the Military Medal)
Donald McLatchie (Gunner - Royal Artillery)
Thomas Souter (Captain - Royal Scots Fusiliers)
Sammy Cox (Gordon Highlanders)
David Gray (served in Middle East)
Archie Macauley (Army Physical Training Corps)
Willie Paton
David Marshall
David Kinnear
'Torry' Gillick
Dr. Adam Little
Eddie Rutherford
Jimmy Galloway
Alex McKillop
Tom McKillop
Joe Johnston
Willie Knox
R. Cowan
P. Grant
A. Beattie
GDF Mackay

ROYAL AIR FORCE
Chris McNee - Flight Lieutenant
Ian McPherson (awarded the Distinuished Flying Cross)
Eddie Rutherford
Jimmy Simpson
Alex Stevenson

 

ROYAL NAVY
Jimmy Parlane
Billy Williamson
Bobby Brown - Petty Officer - Fleet Air Arm

 

Former Rangers player Carl Hansen was arrested in his native Copenhagen in 1943, He was a member of the Danish resistance, he was sentenced to four months imprisonment by the Nazi Occupation forces

 

Walter Tull

Walter Tull, was another outstanding footballer who abandoned his career and offered his services to the British Army. Tull,joined the 1st Football Battalion of the Middlesex Regiment. The Army soon recognised Tull's leadership qualities and he was promoted to the rank of sergeant. In July 1916, Tull took part in the major Somme offensive. Tull survived this experience but in December 1916 he developed trench fever and was sent home to England to recover.
Tull had impressed his senior officers and recommended that he should be considered for further promotion. When he recovered from his illness, instead of being sent back to France, he went to the officer training school at Gailes in Scotland. Despite military regulations forbidding "any negro or person of colour" being an officer, Tull received his commission in May, 1917.
Lieutenant Tull was sent to the Italian front. This was an historic occasion because Tull was the first ever black officer in the British Army. He led his men at the Battle of Piave and was mentioned in dispatches for his "gallantry and coolness" under fire.
Walter Tull stayed in Italy until 1918 when he was transferred to France to take part in the attempt to break through the German lines on the Western Front. On 25th March, 1918, 2nd Lieutenant Tull was ordered to lead his men on an attack on the German trenches at Favreuil. Soon after entering No Mans Land Tull was hit by a German bullet. Tull was such a popular officer that several of his men made valiant efforts under heavy fire from German machine-guns to bring him back to the British trenches. These efforts were in vain as Tull had died soon after being hit. Tull's body was never found.

Walter Tull