1884 Oct 26 Born Dalbeattie, Kirkcudbright
1902 Jan 10 Enlisted in RMLI. Service record He was a Grocers Assistant. Initially at Deal Depot
1902 Oct 4. Posted Plymouth
1903 Jul 23 Embarked on HMS Melampus
1903 Aug 20 Plymouth
1903 Sep 12. HMS Vivid
1904 Jun 7. Plymouth
1904 Jun 20 HMS Leander
1905 Aug 4. HMS Magnificent
1906 Nov 6. Plymouth
1907 Apr 10. HMS Vivid
1908 Mar 13. Plymouth
1908 HMS Sutlej
1909 Mar 9. HMS Donegal
1910 May 19. Plymouth
1910 Jun 24. HMS Andromeda
1910 Aug 5. Plymouth
1910 Sep 29 HMS Hermione
1910 Nov 4. Plymouth
1911 Jan 31 HMS Talbot
1911 Mar 8 Plymouth
1911 May 16 HMS Leviathan
1913 Feb 13. Plymouth
1913 Sep 30 HMS Thesius
1914 Nov 29 Plymouth
1914-15 Star, Victory & British War Medals
1915 May 27. Married Annie Rowney in Devon
1915 Jun 8 HMS Carysfort
1915 Jun 8 Promoted Corporal
1916 May 25 Plymouth
1917 Jun 14 HMS Thunderer
1918 Feb 27 HMS Orion
1919 Jul 26. Plymouth
1919 Aug 31 HMS Orion
1920 Apr 27 Plymouth
1920 Jun 2. To Ireland
1920 Nov 10. Killed age 34. Death registered at Kenmare. The Royal Marine records say specifically "Killed or died by means other than disease, accident or enemy action". The newspaper report in the local paper shows that he shot and wounded a rabbit, then tried to finish the rabbit of by hitting it with the butt end of his shotgun. The gun went off and he took the full blast, which killed him
Son of James and Helen Muir, of Dalbeattie; husband of Annie Muir, of 12, St. James's Rd., Shirley, Southampton.
Ford Park Cemetery (formerly Plymouth Old Cemetery)
