John Cormack Adair
Rank: Driver
Service No: 414074
Place of Birth: Rutherglen
Date of Death: 12/01/1918
Theatre of Death: Egypt
Age: 21
Regiment/Service: Royal Engineers (410th Field Coy.)
Cemetery: Alexandria (Hadra) War Memorial Cemetery
Additional information: Son of Thomas and Catherine Adair of 22 Greenhill Road, Rutherglen.
Rutherglen Lore information: Son of Mr and Mrs T Adair, 22 Greenhill Road, Rutherglen.
Soldier’s Effects information: Father Thomas and Mother Catherine Adair.
1901 census information:
Address: 1 McDonald Street, Rutherglen.
Father: Thomas (36) spindle maker, born about 1865 in Rutherglen.
Mother: Catherine (29) born about 1872 in Glasgow.
Brother: James (6) born about 1895 in Glasgow.
Self: John (4) born about 1897 in Glasgow.
1911 Census information:
The family are living in Rutherglen. The family comprises Thomas 47, Catherine 37, James 16, John 14, Thomas 9 and William 4.
Newspaper transcript – Driver J. Adair, Rutherglen. Mr and Mrs Adair, 22 Greenhill Road, Rutherglen, have received official intimation that their son, Driver John Adair, Royal Engineers, died from wounds, in hospital abroad, on January 12, 1918. He was 21 years of age. He had three years of service, and was ? the Gallipoli Campaign.