Alexander Morton McCrone
Rank: Private
Service No: 40411
Place of Birth: East Kilbride
Date of Death: 19/09/1916
Theatre of Death: F&F
Regiment/Service: King’s Own Scottish Borderers (2nd Bn.)
Memorial: Thiepval Memorial
Rutherglen Lore information: Son of Mr. and Mrs. McCrone, 72A Main Street, Rutherglen.
Soldier’s Effects information: Mother Margaret McCrone.
1901 census information:
Address: 9 Regent Street, Rutherglen.
Father: John (34) baker’s vanman, born about 1867 in Rannock, Perthshire.
Mother: Maggie (32) born about 1869 in West Calder.
Sister: Elizabeth R (9) born 1892 about in East Kilbride.
Self: Alexander (8) born about 1893 in East Kilbride.
Brother: Adam (6) born about 1895 in Rutherglen.
Sister: Maggie (5 months) born 1900 about in Rutherglen.
Grandfather: Alexander Morton (64) formerly miner, born about 1837 in Glasgow.