Billy Docherty, of Ravensby Road, Carnoustie, reckons the piece (Sept 2)on Dundee’s international boxer Frank McQuillan was a ‘fine article’.
He continued: “I believe Frank attended St Joseph’s Boys PS and St John’s Secondary School, then at Park Place.
“At that time, I believe he lived in the Crescent area, at the bottom of Lochee Road.
“He fought for Scotland at the last Empire Games, now renamed the Commonwealth Games, in 1954 in Canada, winning a silver medal.
“Frank’s grave is in Balgay Cemetery, near a relative’s grave, and has boxing gloves on his gravestone.
“Dundee, in the early to late-1950s, produced the country’s finest amateur boxers at different weights.
“The city produced, as well as Frank and Dick McTaggart, John McVicar at heavyweight, and Billy Bannon, who fought at light-heavyweight winning a bronze medal for Scotland in Cardiff in the 1958 Commonwealth Games.
“The Caird Hall was regularly well attended on the many times amateur boxing contests were held there.”
Frank’s sister Margaret Guttormsen also came on to reveal she was the little girls in the photo, seen giving Frank a farewell kiss as he left for Berlin to take part in the European Championships.
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