W H Stirling, b: -

^{1945 Atomic bomb detonated (Hiroshima)}
^{1950 Korean War begins}
^{1964 - 1973 Vietnam War}
^{1969 Armstrong first person on moon}
^{1986 Nuclear disaster at Chernobyl}

^{1903 Wright brothers 1st plane flight}
^{1912 Titanic sinks on maiden voyage}
^{1914 - 1918 World War I}
^{1922 USSR formed by Soviet states}
^{1939 - 1945 World War II}

^{1854 Crimean War with Russia}
^{1869 Opening of Suez Canal}
^{1871 Franco - Prussian War}
^{1895 Marconi invents wireless telegraphy}
^{1899 Boer War begins}


		^{Major William Stirling}^{b. d.}

	^{Brig. James Erskine Stirling}^{b.1909 d.1968}

^{W H Stirling}^{b. d.}		^{Capt-Henry F. C. Cavendish}^{b.1854 Ayot St.Lawrence, Herts. d.1928}

	^{Evelyn Alice Beatrix Cavendish}^b.1892 d.	^{Lady-Harriet C. G. Osbourne}^{b.1867 Farnham Royal, Yks. d.1922}



	^{Col. Ronald Menzies}^{b. d.}

^M Menzies^{b. d.}