Gardiner, Archibald Hay 119295 (1898 - 1919)

Private, 20th Bn. Machine Gun Corps

Buried at Craigton Cemetery

Commemorated at Bellahouston Academy Roll of Honour

Archibald was the son of Mr and Mrs Gardiner, 428 Paisley Road West, Glasgow.

On leaving school in 1913 he went into his fathers business at 62 Plantation Street and had every prospect of becoming a successful businessman.

He enlisted in the 4th Highland Light Infantry but after a time he was transferred to the 20th Battalion Machine Gun Corps and it was as a machine-gunner he went to France.

Having been gassed he was invalided home from France in August 1918 but he never quite recovered. On the 11th April 1919 he died at the age of 21 years.