James Forbes
Rank: Private
Service No: S/13719
Place of Birth: Lambhill
Date of Death: 25/09/1915
Theatre of Death: F&F
Age: 22
Regiment/Service: Cameron Highlanders (7th Bn.)
Memorial: Loos Memorial
Additional information: Son of James Urquhart Forbes of 189 Main Street, Rutherglen.
Rutherglen Lore information: Son of Sergeant Forbes, Constabulary, Rutherglen.
Soldier’s Effects information: Father James Forbes and brother William.
1901 census information:
Address: Police Office, Leadhills, Lanarkshire.
Father: James (37) police constable, born about 1864 in Fraserburgh.
Mother: Ann (37) born about 1864 in New Aberdour.
Brother: William (14) railway labourer, born about 1887 in Dalserf.
Brother: George Murray (12) born about 1889 in Govanhill.
Self: James (4) born about 1897 in Lambhill.
Brother: David (3) born about 1898 in Leadhills.
*This is the correct family however there seems to be a problem with the age of James Snr. and his wife in the transcription. Therefore I have gone with their correct ages.
Also commemorated on the family headstone in Rutherglen Cemetery.
Newspaper transcript – Rutherglen. Missing. – Private James Forbes (No. 13719), A Coy, Cameron Highlanders, has been posted missing since the action on 25th September. He was last seen in the battle of Loos. His father, Sergeant James Forbes, Lanarkshire constabulary, Rutherglen, could get no further information from the Commanding Officer than he was missing. Any information will be thankfully received by his father. Private Forbes before the war was a clerk at Coldness Iron Works, Newmains.
Newspaper transcript – Sergt. Forbes, of the Constabulary of Rutherglen, has received official information of the death of his son, Pte. James Forbes, 7th Cameron Highlanders, who was killed in action in France on 25th September.
Also commemorated on the memorial in the Old Parish Church, Rutherglen and on the family headstone in Rutherglen Cemetery.