| Description | This small photograph, which has the appearance of having at one time been in a frame, shows Mgr Claeys sitting at an ornate desk, reading, with a large pot plant on a bookcase behind him; Mgr Claeys was born in Belgium on 29th August 1875; he entered St Peter's College, Bearsden in 1893 and was ordained priest on 19th March 1899; during the First World War period, he served with the 33rd Division of Artillery of the British Army and saw service in France and Flanders; as a result of his war experience, his health suffered but he was able to resume work in the Archdiocese of Glasgow; he died in Wemyss Bay on 17th November 1928, aged 53. |