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.
1901 census information:
Address: 176 King Street, Rutherglen.
Father: John (36) mason’s labourer, born about 1865 in Rutherglen.
Mother: Jessie Aitken (36) born about 1865 in Rutherglen.
Brother: James (16) apprentice mason, born about 1885 in Rutherglen.
Self: Alexander (14) tube work’s labourer, born about 1887 in Rutherglen.
Brother: William (11) born about 1890 in Rutherglen.
Brother: Archibald (8) born about 1893 in Rutherglen.
Brother: George (7) born about 1894 in Rutherglen.
Brother: Robert (4) born about 1897 in Rutherglen.
Sister: Jessie (1 month) born about 1901 in Rutherglen.
Newspaper transcript –Mr John Anderson, 18 Cathcart Street, Rutherglen, who had seven sons in active service has received intimation of the death of one of them, and that another has been wounded and is a prisoner in Germany. The names and ages of the sons are:- Private James (31), 12th H.L.I.; Private Alexander (29), Royal Scots; Able Seaman John (27), RNR; Private William (25), 1st H.L.I.- prisoner of war in Germany; Private Archibald (23), A.S.C.; Private George (21), 1st Scottish Rifles – killed in action at Neuve Chapelle; Private Robert (19), 1st H.L.I. Mr Anderson himself applied to be admitted into the Army, but was refused due to defective vision.
Brother of Archibald Anderson and George Anderson