James Park
Rank: Private
Service No: 830255
Date of Death: 15/8/1917
Age: 18
Regiment/Service: Canadian Infantry (8th Bn.)
Memorial: Vimy Memorial
Additional information: Son of Robert and Margaret Scoular Park, St. James Winnipeg.
1901 census information:
Address: 51 Wardlaw Avenue, Rutherglen.
Father: Robert (33) leather commercial traveller, born about 1868 in Rutherglen.
Mother: Maggie S (29) born about 1872 in Glasgow.
Self: James (2) born about 1899 in Cambuslang.
Brother: John (7 months ) born about 1900 in Rutherglen.
1911 Census information:
The family are living in Rutherglen. The family comprises Robert 43, Margaret S 39, James 12, John 10, Stewart S 7 and Robert D 4.
Newspaper transcript – Dies of Wounds In Hospital Near Lens. Picked up among dead and dying Germans, Pte. Park, No. 330255, died in a dressing station on the outskirts of Lens. A Newfoundlander who found him wrote to his parents, mr and Mrs Robert Park, 255 Albany Street, that he had died a heron. He told of the fighting around Lens Aug. 15, when Pte. Park was killed. He said the Canadians started out at 4.45 o’clock in the morning. They reached all objectives, captured six villages in an hour and a half and repulsed five furious counter attacks by the Germans. It was during one of these attacks that Pte. Park suffered his death wounds. Pte. Park was born in Glasgow, Scotland. In Canada he completed his education and then obtained a position with the Donald Morrison Grain Co. He enlisted with Lieut.-Col, W. W Morley, of the Little Black Devils, when he was 17 years old. First reports said he was wounded, but not his parents have been notified that he died of wounds.
Commemorated on the memorial in Stonelaw High School, Rutherglen.