Alexander Haig Murray
Rank: Corporal
Service No: 15427
Place of Birth: Rutherglen
Date of Death: 7/6/1917
Theatre of Death: F&F
Regiment/Service: South Lancashire Regiment (8th Bn.)
Memorial: Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial
Rutherglen Lore information: Mitchell Street, Rutherglen.
Soldier’s Effects information: Brother John guardian of Duncan C Fraser.
1901 census information:
Address: 8 Mitchell Street, Rutherglen.
Mother: Mary C (40) laundry worker, born about 1861 in Musselburgh.
Brother: John (22) born about 1879 in Rutherglen.
Self: Alexander (14) born about 1887 in Rutherglen.
Newspaper transcript – Corpl. A. H. Murray, Glasgow. Intimation has been received that Corporal Alex. Haig Murray, 30 years of age, was killed at Messines on June 7. He served for eight years in the Blythswood (7th) H.L.I., and was employed at Stewart and Lloyd’s previous to joining the army. He resided in Mitchell Street, Rutherglen.
* Alexander died while serving in the South Lancashire Regiment and not the Highland Light Infantry as noted on the cenotaph.