Robert S A Balfour
Rank: Private
Service No: S/16081
Place of Birth: Rutherglen
Date of Death: 01/04/1918
Theatre of Death: F&F
Age: 19
Regiment/Service: The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (2nd Bn.)
Cemetery: Potijze Chateau Grounds Cemetery
Additional information: Son of Mr. and Mrs. John Balfour of 67 Glasgow Road, Rutherglen.
Rutherglen Lore information: Son of Mrs. Balfour, 67 Glasgow Road, Rutherglen.
Soldier’s Effects information: Mother Jeannie Balfour.
1901 census information:
Address: 22 Nansen Street, Glasgow
Father: John (38) harness maker, born about 1863 in Dundee.
Mother: Jeannie A (30) born about 1871 in Glasgow.
Sister: Lizzie C (7) born about 1894 in Lochee, Forfarshire.
Brother: Alexander K (5) born about 1896 in Lochee, Forfarshire.
Self: Robert S A (3) born about 1898 in Rutherglen.
Sister: Charlotte M (2) born about 1899 in Glasgow.
Newspaper transcript – Pte. R. Balfour, Rutherglen. Intimation has been received by Mr and Mrs John Balfour, 67 Glasgow Road, Rutherglen, that their son, Private Robert Balfour, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, was killed on March 31. He was 19 years of age, and was formerly a butcher with Mrs Tudhope, Main Street, Rutherglen.