Thomas Baird
Rank: Private
Service No: 10576
Place of Birth: Rutherglen
Date of Death: 14/10/1916
Theatre of Death: F&F
Regiment/Service: Seaforth Highlanders (2nd Bn.)
Cemetery: Serre Road Cemetery No 2
Rutherglen Lore information: 26 Regent Street, Rutherglen.
Soldier’s Effects information: Sister Elizabeth Baird.
1901 census information:
Address: 20 Cathcart Street, Rutherglen.
Father: William (50) fireman at coalmine, born about 1851 in East Kilbride.
Mother: Janet R (43) born about 1858 in Rutherglen.
Brother: William (18) brass moulder, born about 1883 in Rutherglen.
Brother: Robert (16) coal miner, born about 1885 in Rutherglen.
Self: Thomas (11) born about 1890 in Rutherglen.
Brother: Andrew (8) born about 1893 in Rutherglen.
Sister: Elizabeth (5) born about 1896 in Rutherglen.
Not 100% sure this is the correct Thomas however he is the only Thomas born in Rutherglen with a sister Elizabeth.
Newspaper transcript – Official intimation has been received by Miss E. Baird, 53 Mill Street, Rutherglen, that her brother, Private Thomas Baird, Seaforth Highlanders, has been killed in action in France. Private Baird who was 26 years of age, had been seven years in the Army.