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A M Muir
Enniskillen
Allan (variously spelled Alan and Allen in newspaper reports) McPherson Muir’s story is a tragic one. Born in Partick, Glasgow, in1897, he grew up in Clydebank and worked there in the Singer factory before the war. During the First World War he served with the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders in France.

Unable to find work after the war he moved to Ireland and worked first in Dublin docks and then in Belfast. In Belfast he secured an assistant’s post at Knock Golf Club and, in April 1927, the professional’s post at Enniskillen.

On the day his second child was born in August 1927 he had arranged early in the morning for the midwife to come and then the Doctor and left money with the midwife for them to be paid. Both medical staff thought he seemed fine but then he disappeared. His father in Clydebank was mystified, ‘He liked his job and as far as I know he had no troubles of any kind,’ he told the Sunday Post. ‘During the war he got shell-shock but I don’t think that could have anything to do with his disappearance’.

Ten days later his body with throat cut was found in woods about 500 yards from his house, a razor lying on the ground beside the body. A verdict of ‘suicide whilst of unsound mind’ was returned at the inquest the following month.

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