George Crabbe
Rank: Corporal
Service No: S/4400
Place of Birth: Barony, Glasgow
Date of Death: 14/07/1916
Theatre of Death: F&F
Regiment/Service: Seaforth Highlanders (9th Bn.)
Memorial: Thiepval Memorial
Rutherglen Lore information: Son of Thomas Crabbe, 2 Wardlaw Drive, Rutherglen.
Soldier’s Effects information: Father Thomas Crabbe and brothers Thomas and William.
1901 census information:
Address: 62 Rumford Street, Bridgeton.
Father: Thomas (45) aerated water salesman, born about 1856 in Ireland.
Mother: Matilda (47) born about 1854 in Ireland.
Sister: Maggie (21) lappit weaver, born about 1880 in Glasgow.
Brother: Andrew (15) telegraph messenger, born about 1886 in Glasgow.
Sister: Lizzie (13) born about 1888 in Glasgow.
Brother: William (11) born about 1890 in Glasgow.
Self: George (9) born about 1892 in Glasgow.
Sister: Mary (6) born about 1895 in Glasgow.
Newspaper transcript – Mr Thomas Crabbe, 2 Wardlaw Drive, Rutherglen, has been officially notified that his son, Corpl, George Crabbe, Seaforth Highlanders, was killed in action in France on July 15. Prior to enlisting in September, 1914, he was employed in Singer’s, Clydebank.
Also commemorated on the family headstone in Rutherglen Cemetery.
Headstone reads – Their son George killed at Somme 14th July 1916 aged 24.