Edward McDonald
Rank: Private
Service No: 18440
Place of Birth: Glasgow
Date of Death: 12/05/1915
Theatre of Death: F&F
Regiment/Service: Royal Scots (1st Bn.)
Memorial: Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial
Rutherglen Lore information: Brother of Mrs. O’Rourke, 9 High Street, Rutherglen.
Soldier’s Effects information: Allan S Edminston Esq. and half sister Bella O’Rourke.
1891 census information:
Address: 49 Dale Street, Tradeston.
Father: Patrick (40) general labourer, born about 1851 in Glasgow.
Mother: Bella (39) born about 1852 in Glasgow.
Half-Sister: Bella Duffy (13) born about 1878 in Glasgow.
Brother: Joseph (5) born about 1886 in Glasgow.
Self: Edward (4) born about 1887 in Glasgow.
Brother: Morris (2) born about 1889 in Glasgow.
Sister: Ellen (1) born about 1890 in Glasgow.
Newspaper transcript – Rutherglen. Mrs. O’Rourke, 9 High Street, Rutherglen, has received official information that her brother, Private Edward McDonald, D Company Royal Scots, No. 18440, has been killed at the front. He was a reservist, and before the war was employed at Messrs. Stewart’s and Lloyd’s, Rutherglen. He was called up in February. His commanding officer wrote that Private McDonald was one of the best soldiers under him.
Newspaper transcript – Intimation has been received by Mrs O’Rourke, 9 High Street, Rutherglen, that her brother Private Edward McDonald (22), Royal Scots, was killed at the front. He was a Reservist, and was employed at Messrs. Stewarts and Lloyds’, Rutherglen. He served in India prior to the war.
*Brother of Morris McDonald.