John Harvey
Rank: Sapper
Service No: 2175
Place of Birth: Anderston
Date of Death: 09/05/1915
Theatre of Death: F&F
Age: 23
Regiment/Service: The Royal Engineers 1st/1st (Lowland) Field Coy.
Cemetery: Bethune Town Cemetery
Additional information: Son of Mr. and Mrs. William Harvey of 85 Radnor Street, Clydebank.
Rutherglen Lore information: Pte., 2nd L.D., R.E. (T.), – Regent Street and Clydebank.
Soldier’s Effects information: Father William Harvey.
Newspaper transcript – Mr William Harvey, 85 Radnor Street, Clydebank, has received information of the death of his son, Sapper John Harvey (23), 2nd Lowland Divisional Engineers (T.). Harvey was a native of Rutherglen. He had been eight months in the trenches, and at the time he was killed he was engaged with others building a bridge. Sapper Harvey was employed at Singers’ Works prior to going to the front.