Thomas Goldie
Rank: Company Sergeant Major
Service No: 131
Place of Birth: Glasgow
Date of Death: 12/07/1915
Theatre of Death: Gallipoli
Regiment/Service: Highland Light Infantry (7th Bn.)
Memorial: Helles Memorial
Soldier’s Effects information: Widow Margaret Goldie.
1901 census information:
Address: 3 McDonald Street, Rutherglen
Mother: Honor (52) housekeeper, born about 1849 in County Antrim, Ireland.
Sister: Margory (29) power loom weaver, born about 1872 in Rutherglen.
Self: Thomas (20) hewer, born about 1881 in Rutherglen.
Brother: James (16) apprentice hewer, born about 1885 in Rutherglen.
Brother: Peter (14) machine ?, born about 1887 in Glasgow.
Thomas married Maraget McKenna in 1903 in Rutherglen they had four children – James, John, Thomas Daniel and Ann.
Newspaper transcript – Mrs Margaret Goldie, 15 Monteith Street, Bridgeton, has been officially informed that her husband, Sergeant T. Goldie, 1/7th H.L.I., was killed in action at the Dardanelles on July 12. Sergeant Goldie was connected with the battalion for over 13 years, and prior to mobilisation was employed as a stonecutter with Messrs Imrie, Polmadie Road.