James McCormack
Rank: Private
Service No: S/3493
Place of Birth: Rutherglen
Date of Death: 15/02/1915
Theatre of Death: F&F
Age: 23
Regiment/Service: Gordon Highlanders (2nd Bn.)
Cemetery: Merville Communal Cemetery
Additional information: Son of Thomas and Mary McCormack of 23 Gallowflat Street, Rutherglen.
Rutherglen Lore information: Son of Mr. McCormack, 23 Gallowflat Street, Rutherglen.
Soldier’s Effects information: Father Thomas and sisters Alice and Margaret McCormack.
1901 census information:
Address: 21 Stonelaw Road, Rutherglen
Grandmother: Margaret (64) born about 1837 in Rutherglen.
Father: Thomas (43) bricklayer, born 1859 about in Rutherglen
Aunt: Margaret (40) born about 1861 in Newton, Lanarkshire.
Aunt: Euphemia Madden (37) plain weaver, born about 1864 in Rutherglen.
Aunt: Jeanie (23) weaver, born about 1878 in Rutherglen.
Sister: Alice (12) born 1889 about in Rutherglen.
Sister: Margaret (11) born 1890 about in Rutherglen.
Self: James (9) born about 1892 in Rutherglen.
1911 census information:
The family are living in Rutherglen. The family comprises Thomas 51, Alice 22, Margaret 21 and James 19.
Newspaper transcript – the father of Private James McCormack, of the Gordon Highlanders, who resides at 23 Gallowflat Street, Rutherglen, has received word from France that his son has been killed. The chaplain of the regiment, in a letter, says that Private McCormack passed away peacefully last Monday as the result of a gunshot wound on the head received on Friday. Private McCormack, who was 23 years of age, joined the ? shortly after the outbreak of hostilities, and had only been at the front about three weeks. It will remembered that two seasons ago he was a prominent member of Rutherglen Glencairn F.C. for whom he played many good games. He latterly gave up football and went in for cricket.
Newspaper transcript – A Rutherglen Football Player Killed. Intelligence has been received by his parents that James McCormick, who resided at Gallowflat Street, Rutherglen, has been killed in action in France. He was in the Gordon Highlanders. he was a prominent player in the Glencairn Football Club, and was a compositor with Messrs Hay, Nisbet, & co, printers, Glasgow.
Also commemorated on the memorial at Stonelaw High School, Rutherglen and West Parish Church, Rutherglen and Rutherglen Old Parish Church.