2nd Lieutenant Ian Campbell Chrystal Memorial Gravestone Necropolis Glasgow Scotland
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Channel: tourscotland · 2013 · Travel & Events
Tour Scotland video of 2nd Lieutenant Ian Campbell Chrystal Memorial gravestone on ancestry visit to the Necropolis in Glasgow. Son of WJ and Marie Chrystal, of Auchendennan, Arden, Dunbartonshire. Killed in Action near Cavrelle, France, 1st May 1917, aged 29. Remembered here but buried at Point-du-Jour Military Cemetery, Athies, France. Also, William James Chrystal of Auchendennan, born 1854, died 1921. The surname Chrystal is first recorded in Scotland in the mid 15th century, when William Christole was recorded as being a burgess of Prestwick. On June 1st 1844, a Bridget McCrystal aged twenty, was a passenger on the ship Adirondack, which originally sailed from Liverpool to New York on September 1st 1846, calling at Belfast Lough. This was a ' coffin ' ship, chartered to carry people fleeing the worst effects of the Potato Famine of 1846 in Ireland
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