William Danskin Telford
Rank: Private
Service No: 2560
Place of Birth: Glasgow
Date of Death: 13/10/1915
Theatre of Death: F&F
Regiment/Service: London Scottish (1st/14th Bn)
Cemetery: Noeux-Les-Mines Communal Cemetery
Additional information: Son of Mr R Telford of 30 Melrose Avenue, Rutherglen.
Rutherglen Lore information: son of R Telford, Arouca, Melrose Avenue, Rutherglen.
Soldier’s Effects information: Father Robert and sister Isabella Telford.
1901 census information:
Address: Arouca, Rutherglen.
Father: Robert (47) stockbroker, born about 1854 in Glasgow.
Mother: Isabella (45) born about 1856 in Glasgow.
Brother: George (20) stockbroker’s clerk, born about 1881 in Rutherglen.
Brother: John D (20) stockbroker’s clerk, born about 1881 in Rutherglen.
Brother: Robert (14) sugar merchant’s clerk, born about 1887 in Rutherglen.
Self: William D (8) born about 1893 in Rutherglen.
Sister: Isabella R (7) born about 1894 in Rutherglen.
1911 census information:
Address: 15 Lincoln Road, East Finchley, London.
Self: William D (18) bank clerk, born about 1893 in Rutherglen.
Newspaper transcript – Mr and Mrs Robert Telford, Arouca, Melrose Avenue, Rutherglen, have received official information that their youngest son, Private William Danskin Telford, London Scottish, died in France on October 13 from wounds received on the same date. He was 23 years of age and previous to enlisting in August 1914, was on the staff of Parr’s Bank, Ltd., London.
Also commemorated on the memorial at Stonelaw High School, Rutherglen and on the family headstone in Rutherglen Cemetery.
