Alexander McNaught
Rank: Private
Service No: 2949
Place of Birth: Rutherglen
Date of Death: 01/07/1916
Theatre of Death: F&F
Regiment/Service: Highland Light Infantry (17th Bn.)
Memorial: Thiepval Memorial
Rutherglen Lore information: Son of James McNaught, 118 Main Street, Rutherglen.
Soldier’s effects information: Father James McNaught and sister Margaret Banks.
1901 census information:
Address: 247 Main Street, Rutherglen.
Father: James (50) drawer, born about 1851 in Bridgeton.
Mother: Maggie (49) born about 1852 in Coatbridge.
Sister: Mary (17) born about 1884 in Rutherglen.
Self: Alexander (14) draper’s assistant, born about 1877 in Rutherglen.
Sister: Maggie (11) born about 1890 in Rutherglen.
Newspaper transcript – Previously reported missing, now officially reported killed in action on 1st July, 1916, Pte. Alexander McNaught, H.L.I., in his 29th year, only son of James McNaught, 118 Main Street, Rutherglen.
Also commemorated on the memorial at West Parish Church and on the family headstone in Rutherglen Cemetery.
