Thomas John Hirst Drysdale
Rank: Second Lieutenant
Service No: 4/95A
Date of Death: 06/04/1918
Age: 34
Regiment/Service: New Zealand Rifle Brigade (3rd Bn.)
Cemetery: Gezaincourt Communal Cemetery Extension
Additional information: Son of John Drysdale, M.D. and Alice Drysdale (nee Dodson) of 2 Belhaven Terrace, Rutherglen. Born at Port Chalmers, New Zealand.
Rutherglen Lore information: Son of Dr. John Drysdale, 2 Belhaven Terrace, Burnside.
New Zealand Birth Index information: Jul/Aug/Sep 1883, Port Chalmers NZ.
1901 census information:
Address: 4 Millbank Cottage, Alva, Clackmannanshire.
Father: John Drysdale (60) general practitioner, born about 1841 in Glasgow.
Sister: Mary Elizabeth (21) born about 1880 in New Zealand.
Brother: George James Alexander (19) bank clerk, born about 1882 in New Zealand.
Self: Thomas John Hirst (17) mercantile clerk, born about 1884 in New Zealand.
Newspaper transcript – Drysdale. – Died of wounds received in action on or about 5th April, Thomas J. H. Drysdale, 2nd Lieutenant, New Zealand Rifle Brigade, your son of John Drysdale, M.D., 2 Belhaven Terrace, Rutherglen, and late of Port Chalmers, New Zealand, aged 34 years.
Newspaper transcript – Sec. Lieut. Thomas J. H. Drysdale, New Zealand Rifle Brigade, who has died of wounds, was the youngest son of Dr. John Drysdale, 2 Belhaven Terrace, Rutherglen. He was 34 years of age. At the outbreak of war he was of the staff of Bulloch Lade and Co. ? distillers, Glasgow.