We are very appreciative of the kind comments that have been left for our Exhibition. We are very proud to have been allowed to gather the collective memory of a community and it's experience of the Great War.

McLean Museum and Art Gallery

WW1 Feedback Comments for exhibition 2014

• Wonderful exhibition, great detail and a fitting tribute to all WW1 personnel.
• Wonderful exhibition.  Vince and all the staff have put a lot of effort into preserving the memory of so many local people who were put to this terrible war, including my great uncle Thomas Rodger Gormley.  Well Done.
• What a fantastic exhibition.  So moving- a lovely tribute.  Well done for the all the hard work to all involved.
• Thanks to the staff who were very helpful allowing me to have a copy of my uncle’s particulars re- where he is buried.  This display is a wonderful tribute to all the brave men and women.
• Wonderful exhibition.   Makes you appreciate the sacrifice of these brave soldiers.  Very emotional.  Congratulations to all involved in setting this up.
• Amazing to see a photograph and items belonging to my daddy’s uncle William Pimm. My dad was named after this man yet we never seen him before.  What an eerie resemblance.  Thank you so much.
• Put together very well.
• Very interesting, will take my parents.  Well done.
• A very interesting exhibition, so well laid out.  Congratulations to all involved in setting up.
• Congratulations on a very interesting and moving exhibition.
• Very interesting and informing and so well put together.
• Wonderful exhibition.  Thank you to everyone involved.
• Astonishing just how may men from this area perished in WW1.  This exhibition does them proud.
• First class presentation-so much to learn about WW1.  Congratulations to all who put this together.
• Very informative.  I will take some information back to my class.
• An absolutely fab exhibition, so interesting.
• Found my great granddad’s brother in the book information we didn’t know.  Great time.
• Thought it was interesting and it was sad to see so many people from this area had died.
• A wonderful exhibition and marvellous tribute to all the men and women who sacrificed their lives to give us our freedom today.
• Found my papa’s brother in the book information.  Thanks.
• Really glad I came to this exhibition.  So interesting and informative even found my grandfather’s name in the book.  Grandson of Private Francis Campbell, 1^st Battalion Highland Light Infantry.  Killed in action 8^th March 1916, Mesopotamia
• A wonderful exhibition and happy to find details about my uncle William Reid Mathieson who was killed at St. Julien 24^th April 1915 and is buried at Ypres Belgium.  Thank you so much.
• A superb exhibition and found my grandfather Patrick Sheed.  Thank you.
• What a moving personal exhibition.  Sewed an addition to the “too many names”; what a community project.
• Great exhibition.  Thanks to the museum staff for giving me some additional information on my great grandfather, Andrew Bradley of Port Glasgow
• Wonderful exhibition, moving and informative.  Thank you for all the hard work gone into it.
• Well thought out and very interesting.  Some of the press cuttings very difficult to read but the whole exhibition is indeed thought provoking.
• Once again you have produced a very outstanding exhibition.
• An excellent exhibition- highly informative and so well organised.  The museum staff deserve great praise.  I found a personal connection with one particular story and at the age of 80 learned a great deal of WW1 from my mother who was widowed in the 2^nd WW and this has been brought back more vividly.
• A wonderful exhibition and so happy to find details of my uncle Thomas Glenney.  Very moving.  Many thanks for such a well laid out exhibition.
• An excellent exhibition.  I wonder to what extent posters have been put up in and around the town.  A lot of people I know don’t know about the exhibition and that is a great pity.  Very well done, obviously a lot of work and care.
• Beautiful exhibition.  I found more details of my great uncle William Pimm.
• Peace.
• A wonderful exhibition!  So much work for you- the details are great.  Thank you.
• Have brought my granddaughter to see the exhibition and to see her great great grandfather and his story, John Millar- Jack.  It is my second visit to the exhibition and it is even more interesting and still more to see and read.  Well done to everyone who has made this exhibition so magnificent.  I had the great pleasure and privilege of attending the Drumhead Service and Edinburgh Castle of the 10^th August- superb.
• Very interesting.  New news for me.  Staff most helpful.
• Very good and interesting exhibition.  Enjoyed seeing all the pics and films.
• Gone but not forgotten
• Very interesting exhibition
• Very moving to read letters and read/see men who lost their lives to bring peace and a better future for us all.
• A truly moving experience to see all these exhibits.
• Great exhibition- well done the museum.
• GBNF (Gone but not forgotten).  Really sad.
• Very interesting exhibition and a big thanks should go to all who donated items and to all who put the exhibition together.  It’s important to remember these people who have given us our freedom.  Loved the “Too many names” project.
• Excellent exhibition.  So many lives lost for our freedom.  Feel very emotional often seeing book of remembrance and seeing and reading my Great Uncle mentioned, Henry J Short, whom I was told was shot by a sniper.  We must never be allowed to forget the great sacrifice made by all who gave their young lives.  Thank you Vincent for your help and giving me more information on my great uncle.
• Why not start collection money for a memorial in Greenock with all the names of the men and women who made this supreme sacrifice.  Write into the “Tele”.
• Very moving tribute to ‘real names’.
• God speed.
• Very good.
• Very interesting to find out about my great granda Joseph O’Malley.
• Excellent exhibition.  A good testament to those who fought and died in the great war.  Thanks to the staff who must have put in many tiring hours of research.  I will come again to read what I missed.
• A wonderful exhibition.  Thank you so much for all your work gathering this information.  You have created a truly moving tribute to our brave young men- remembered forever.
• I loved reading about all the people who fought in the war from Kilmacolm.  Very moving and sad, but taught me a lot.
• I found it very interesting and great to see as I am learning about WW1 at school.  It was very moving and a great thing to see.
• Great exhibition lots to see, very well put together.  Thank you.
• Craigmarloch 6^th year pupils “All the pupils and staff thought the exhibition was great.  They especially liked the silent movies”.
• Very moving.  Makes you really appreciate what the people went through at that time and how lucky we are today.
• Fantastic exhibition, wish I had found the time to visit earlier. So glad i didn't miss it. Thank you for holding the event