In 1901, the Strang family were living at Hall of Carnduff Farm, Avondale, Lanarkshire: Father, Gavin (Farmer) (31); Mother, Isabella (33); Son, Gavin (4), Daughter, Lizzie (2); and Daughter, Janet (1). Also living at this address were: Annie Blake (Dairymaid) (17); Catherine Orr (Farm Servant) (17); Robert McLean (Farm Servant) (21); and Susan McNeil (Nursery Maid) (12). At the time of Gavin's death his family were living at Moneydie Farm, Redgorton, Perthshire.

De Ruvigny’s Roll of Honour

“Gavin Strang was educated at Moneydie Public School and Sharp’s Institution, Perth. He was, for 18 months, in MacDonald, Fraser & Company’s auctioneers office in Perth, after which he was learning farming with his father. He enlisted in the 15th Battn. The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, in Edinburgh, on the 28th November 1915; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from 29th July 1916, when he was drafted to the 2nd Battalion of his regiment and died in No. 3 Casualty Clearing Station on the 25th February 1917, from wounds received in action on the Somme. The Chaplain wrote ‘He was a good soldier and contributed his all’.” Gavin Strang was 20 years old and unmarried.

Gavin Strang is also commemorated on the Almondbank Village War Memorial; the Moneydie Parish War Memorial; and the Strathaven, Lanarkshire, War Memorial.