Daniel Duncan
Rank: Sapper
Service No: 317994 and WR/355344
Date of Death: 26/02/1918
Theatre of Death: At sea
Regiment/Service: Royal Engineers (Inland Water Transport)
Memorial: Basra Memorial
Rutherglen Lore information: Son of Robt. Duncan, Wardlaw Cottage, Rutherglen.
Soldier’s Effects information: Father Robert Duncan.
1901 census information:
Address: 50 Anderson Street, Partick.
Father: Robert (38) shipwright, born about 1863 in Whitchurch, Lanarkshire.
Mother: Mary (32) born about 1869 in England.
Self: Daniel (11) born about 1890 in Glasgow.
Sister: Mary (8) born about 1893 in Partick.
Brother: Dreghorn (7) born about 1894 in Partick.
Brother: Robert (5) born about 1896 in Partick.
*On the cenotaph and in the Rutherglen Lore book there is a D. Duncan and a Dan. Duncan both of the Royal Engineers, however I believe that they are the same person as the service number listed for D. Duncan is Daniel Duncan’s service number