George McKissock
Rank: Private
Service No: S/14490
Place of Birth: Rutherglen
Date of Death: 09/05/1915
Theatre of Death: F&F
Regiment/Service: Cameron Highlanders (1st Bn.)
Memorial: Le Touret Memorial
Rutherglen Lore information: Son of Samuel McKissock, 8 Arnot Street, Rutherglen.
Soldier’s Effects information: Father Samuel McKissock and children.
1901 census information:
Address: 65 Mordaunt Street, Bridgeton.
Father: Samuel (31) iron moulder, born about 1870 in Kilmarnock.
Mother: Elizabeth (32) born about 1869 in Rutherglen.
Self: George (9) born about 1892 in Rutherglen.
Sister: Elizabeth (8) born 1893 about in Rutherglen.
Brother: James (6) born about 1895 in Rutherglen.
Brother: Samuel (4) born about 1897 in Rutherglen.
Brother: Thomas (7months) born about 1900 in Glasgow.
1911 census information:
The family are living in Rutherglen. The family comprises Samuel 41, Elizabeth Hart 42, George 19, Elizabeth 18, James 16, Samuel 14, Thomas 11, Agnes 9 and Robert 7.
Newspaper transcript – Private McKissock, 1st Cameron Highlanders, who has been killed in France, was a Rutherglen man. Prior to enlistment on November 20 he was employed as and iron moulder with Messrs Hay, Bridgeton, Glasgow.
Also commemorated on the memorial at Masonic Lodge Royal Arch No 116, Rutherglen.