Alexander Anderson
Rank: Private
Service No: S/2680
Place of Birth: Rutherglen
Date of Death: 6/5/1918
Theatre of Death: F&F
Regiment/Service: Seaforth Highlanders (9th Bn.)
Cemetery: Boulogne Eastern Cemetery
Rutherglen Lore information: Lived at 44 Glasgow Road.
Soldier’s Effects information: Widow Mary Smith.
1911 census information:
The family are living in Rutherglen. The family comprises Alexander 35, Mary 31, Margaret 4, James 3 and Alexander 2.
Newspaper transcript – Pte. A. Anderson, Rutherglen. Mrs Anderson, 44 Glasgow Road, Rutherglen, has been notified that her husband, Pte. Alexander Anderson, Seaforth Highlanders, died of wounds on May 6, 1918. Pte. Anderson was 42 years of age, and prior to enlisting was employed in Wm. Dixon’s colliery.