John White
Rank: Private
Service No: 10650
Place of Birth: Rutherglen
Date of Death: 10/3/1915
Theatre of Death: F&F
Regiment/Service: Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) (2nd Bn.)
Memorial: Le Touret Memorial
Soldier’s Effects information: Sister Mary Hardie.
1901 census information:
Address: 11 Wardlawhill St, Rutherglen.
Father: Robert (47) stone mason, born about 1854 in Glasgow.
Sister: Mary (23) born about 1878 in Glasgow.
Sister: Christina (21) born about 1880 in Glasgow.
Brother: Robert (15) born about 1896 in Rutherglen.
Self: John (10) born about 1891 in Rutherglen.
Sister: Helen (8) born about 1893 in Rutherglen.
Brother: Alexander (6) born about 1895 in Rutherglen.
Brother: William (4) born about 1897 in Rutherglen.
Newspaper transcript – Mrs T Hardie, 7 Victoria Street, Rutherglen, has received intimation of the death of her brother, Private John White, 2nd Battalion, Cameronians, B. Company, who was killed at Neuve Chapelle.
Private White, who enlisted in the army in 1911, and saw service in Egypt, was drafted to France from Malta. He was the third son of the late Mr. Robert White, mason, Hamilton Road, Rutherglen.