By MYRA GRIFFIN, secretary/treasurer Friends of Kilbride
ON SUNDAY October 1, two months of planning came to fruition when, at the invitation of Friends of Kilbride, around 50 people gathered at Kilbride historic site at Lerags, near Oban, to commemorate the lives and deaths of three First World War soldiers, whose untimely ends are commemorated on their 19th-century family stones.
The existence of these stones had come to light following a casual visit to Kilbride by a Canadian visitor. A search of the records showed that the McCulloch family stone recorded the deaths in action of Sergeant Iain McCulloch, Cameron Highlanders, and Gunner Donald McCulloch, Tank Corps.