James Reid Polland
Rank: Sapper
Service No: 2981
Place of Birth: Kilmun
Date of Death: 28/12/15
Theatre of Death: At sea
Regiment/Service: Royal Engineers 2nd London Field Coy.
Memorial: Helles Memorial
Rutherglen Lore information: Son of Peter Polland, 270 King Street, Rutherglen.
Soldier’s effects information: Mother Davina Polland.
1901 census information:
Address: 10 Spittal Row, Rutherglen.
Father: Peter (39) coal miner, born about 1862 in Glasgow.
Mother: Davina (34) born about 1867 in Glasgow.
Brother: William (12) born about 1889 in Greenock.
Sister: Margaret (10) born about 1891 in West Calder.
Sister: Mary (8) born about 1893 in Hamilton.
Brother: David (6) born about 1895 in Newton.
Self: James (4) born about 1897 in Kilmun.
Sister: Catherine (3) born about 1898 in Kilmun.
Brother: John (2) born about 1899 in Rutherglen.
Sister: Ellen (3 months) born about 1901 in Rutherglen.
Newspaper transcript – Mr Peter Polland, 270 King Street, Rutherglen, has received official notice of the death of his son, Sapper James Polland, 2nd L.D.E. (T.), who died of wounds on December 28 on board H.M. hospital ship Oxfordshire, He enlisted at the outbreak of war, and proceeded with his regiment to the Dardanelles. Before the war he was employed as a ship painter in Chalmers’ Shipbuilding Yard, Rutherglen. He was 20 years of age.