PRIVATE ARCHIE ALLISON MCGILP
ROYAL SCOTS
23RD APRIL 1918 AGE 20
BURIED: LIJSSENTHOEK MILITARY CEMETERY, BELGIUM
Archie McGilp was one of three brothers who were all killed in the war. Hugh was buried in Sanctuary Wood Cemetery but John, whose body was never found, is commemorated on the Arras Memorial. The family lived at 33 Montpelier Park, Edinbugh and the boys all attended Boroughmuir High School. It's a long way from Appin in Argyllshire where a headstone in Appin Old Churchyard commemorates the family: father, Archibald, 1861 to 1938; mother, Elizabeth Allison, 1867 to 1948; the three boys, and their sister, Mary Margaret McGilp, who died in 1950 aged 54.