Peter Mackie
Rank: Private
Service No: 11536
Place of Birth: Glasgow
Date of Death: 29/10/1914
Theatre of Death: F&F
Regiment/Service: King’s Own Scottish Borderers (2nd Bn.)
Memorial: Le Touret Memorial
Rutherglen Lore information: Son of Peter Mackie, 11 Allan Street, Bridgeton.
Soldier’s Effects information: Father Peter Mackie and sister Harriet Campbell.
1901 census information:
Address: Old Farme Rows, Rutherglen.
Father: Peter (30) pit contractor, born about 1871 in Rutherglen.
Self: Peter (7) born about 1894 in Rutherglen.
Sister: Harriet (4) born about 1897 in Rutherglen.
1911 census information:
Address: Old Farme Rows, Rutherglen.
Father: Peter (40) colliery joiner, born about 1871 in Rutherglen.
Self: Peter (7) apprentice brass finisher, born about 1894 in Rutherglen.
Sister: Harriet (15) stationer’s assistant, born about 1897 in Rutherglen.
Newspaper transcript – Killed in Action. Mackie. – On the 29th Oct., killed in action, Private Peter Mackie, 2nd Battalion King’s Own Scottish Borderers, only son of Peter Mackie, 11 Allan Street, Bridgeton, Glasgow; aged 20 years.
Also commemorated on the memorial in Stonelaw Parish Church, Rutherglen and on the family headstone in Rutherglen Cemetery.
