Bartholomew Colrain
Rank: Private
Service No: 17759
Place of Birth: Maryhill, Glasgow
Date of Death: 07/07/1915
Theatre of Death: F&F
Regiment/Service: Royal Irish Fusiliers (1st Bn.)
Cemetery: Bard Cottage Cemetery
Rutherglen Lore information: Husband of Mrs. Colrain, 20 Greenhill Road, Rutherglen.
Soldier’s Effects information: Widow Mrs. Esther Irvine.
1901 census information:
Address: 6 Victoria Terrace, Cambuslang.
Father: Michael (47) coal miner, born about 1854 in Waterside, Ayrshire.
Mother: Janet (46) born about 1855 in Whithorn, Wigtonshire.
Sister: Mary (22) dye worker born about 1879 in Denny.
Brother: John L (16) coal miner, born about 1885 in Glasgow.
Sister: Alice (15) dye worker, born about 1886 in Glasgow.
Sister: Lizzie (12) dye worker, born about 1889 in Glasgow.
Self: Bartholomew (10) born about 1891 in Glasgow.
Brother: James (8) born about 1893 in Glasgow.
Sister: Janet (6) born about 1895 in Glasgow.
Newspaper transcript – Rutherglen Soldier Killed in Belgium. Mr. Michael Colrain, 12 Regent Street, Rutherglen, has received the sad intelligence from an official source that his son Bartholomew has been killed in action in Belgium. Deceased was born in the Maryhill district of Glasgow 24 years ago, but resided with his parents in Rutherglen since childhood. He was employed as a miner at Newton collieries before attaching himself to his regiment, the Royal Irish Fusiliers. Poor Bartholomew’s father has other three sons and a son-in-law each doing his bit for King and country at the front.