William Spence Patrick
Rank: Gunner
Service No: 175378
Place of Birth: Rutherglen
Date of Death: 25/09/1917
Theatre of Death: F&F
Age: 26
Regiment/Service: Royal Field Artillery “D” Bty. 18th Bde.
Cemetery: Voormezeele Enclosures No.1 and No.2
Rutherglen Lore information: Husband of Mrs. Patrick, 13 Greenhill Road.
Soldier’s Effects information: Widow Elizabeth and child.
1901 census information:
Address: 7 Mitchell Street, Rutherglen.
Father: Walter (46) railway engine driver, born about 1855 in Lanarkshire.
Mother: Jane (42) born about 1859 in Airdrie.
Brother: Robert (21) railway general guard, born about 1880 in Bargeddie.
Sister: Violet (20) dressmaker, born about 1881 in Bargeddie.
Brother: Thomas (18) railway porter, born about 1883 in Braehead.
Brother: Walter (16) butcher’s assistant, born about 1885 in Muirside.
Sister: Bella (14) French polisher, born about 1887 in Muirside.
Sister: Jeanie (12), born about 1889 in Muirside.
Self: William (9) born about 1892 in Bargeddie.
Sister: Bessie (7) born about 1894 in Bargeddie.
1911 census information:
Address: 7 Gallowflat Street, Rutherglen.
Father: Walter (56) furnace man in tube works, born about 1855 in Cuilhill.
Mother: Jane (52) born about 1859 in Airdrie.
Brother: Thomas (28) machine man in tube works, born about 1883 in Braehead.
Self: Walter (26) butcher, born about 1885 in Ballieston.
Sister: Bella (24) French polisher, born about 1887 in Ballieston.
Sister: Jeanie (22), clerks, born about 1889 in Ballieston..
Brother: William (19) warehouseman, born about 1892 in Bargeddie.
Sister: Bessie (17) mantlemaker, born about 1894 in Bargeddie.
Brother: Charles 9 born about 1902 in Rutherglen.
Newspaper transcript – Pte. Wm. Patrick, Rutherglen. Mrs Patrick, 13 Greenhill Road, Rutherglen, has received intimation that her husband, Gunner William Patrick, R.F.A., was killed on September 21. He was 26 years of age, and was, prior to enlisting, employed by R. S. Dickson, furnishers, Argyle Street, Glasgow.
Newspaper transcript – Paterick. – In loving memory of Gunner W. Paterick, R.F.a., killed in action in France on 21st September, 1917; also, Private W. Paterick, 9th Scottish Rifles, killed in action in France on 20th January, 1917.
We know! We know!
The ceaseless ache, the emptiness, the woe,
The pang of loss,
The strength that sinks beneath so sore a cross.
– Inserted by their sorrowing Parents, 66 Main Street, Rutherglen.
Also commemorated on the memorial at West Parish Church, Rutherglen.
Brother of Walter Patrick