John Halliday
Rank: Gunner
Service No: 175764
Place of Birth: Rutherglen
Date of Death: 01/05/1917
Theatre of Death: F&F
Age: 33
Regiment/Service: Royal Field Artillery (‘D’ Bty. 50th Bde.)
Cemetery: Etaples Military Cemetery
Additional information: Son of William and Mary Halliday of 100 Hamilton Road, Rutherglen.
Rutherglen Lore information: Son of Wm. Halliday, 5 Sefton Terrace.
Soldier’s Effects information: Mother Mrs. Mary MacFarlane or Halliday.
1901 census information:
Address: 5 Sefton Terrace, Rutherglen.
Father: William (52) cotton manufacturers agent, born about 1849 in Hamilton.
Mother: Mary (51) born about 1850 in Glasgow.
Brother: Malcolm (24) cotton traveller, born about 1877 in Glasgow.
Sister: Margaret (22) born about 1879 in Rutherglen.
Sister: Mary (20) born about 1881 in Rutherglen.
Self: John (17) draper, born about 1884 in Pollokshields.
1911 census information:
The family are living in Rutherglen. The family comprises William 61, Mary 60 and John 26.
Newspaper transcript – Halliday. – Died from wounds received in action, on 1st May, Gunner John Halliday, R.F.A., youngest son of Wm. Halliday, agent, 24 Queen Street, Glasgow, and 5 Sefton Terrace, Rutherglen.
Also commemorated on the memorial at Stonelaw High School, Rutherglen, Rutherglen Old Parish Church, Cathkin Braes Golf Club, Rutherglen and on the family headstone in Rutherglen Cemetery.
Headstone transcript – Also their son John died of wounds received in France 1st May 1917, aged 33 years.