Donald Bain
Rank: Corporal
Service No: 48928
Place of Birth: Rutherglen
Date of Death: 06/11/1917
Theatre of Death: Palestine
Age: 20
Regiment/Service: Machine Gun Corps (Infantry) (156th Coy.)
Cemetery: Gaza War Cemetery
Additional information: Son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Bain of 2 Moray Place, Rutherglen.
Rutherglen Lore information: Son of Mrs. Bain, 2 Moray Place, Rutherglen.
Soldier’s Effects information: Mother Jessie Bain, brothers David and Archibald.
British Army WW1 Service Records information: Enlisted 11/06/13 in Glasgow originally served in the Scottish Rifles (1385) discharged 13/7/16 re-enlisted 14/7/16 in Kantara.
1901 census information:
Address: 230 Main Street, Rutherglen.
Mother: Jessie (27) born about 1874 in Dundee.
Self: Donald (3) born about 1898 in Rutherglen.
Brother: James (2) born about 1899 in Rutherglen.
Brother: David (7 months) born about 1900 in Rutherglen.
*His father Walter (28) bricklayer labourer, born about 1873 in Rutherglen, was a patient in the Glasgow Royal Infirmary.
1911 census information:
The family are living in Rutherglen. The family comprises Walter 39, Jessie 38, Donald 13, James 12, David 10, Archibald 8, Rachel 5 and William 4.
Newspaper transcript – Cpl. D. Bain, Rutherglen. Mrs Walter Bain, 2 Mora Place, Rutherglen, has received official intimation that her son, Corporal Donald Bain, Machine Gun Corps, was killed on November 6. He was 20 years of age, and prior to enlisting was employed by Messrs Rowan and Co., engineers, Bridgeton, Glasgow.