Henry McKay
Rank: Sapper
Service No: 2185
Date of Death: 27/10/1917
Regiment/Service: Australian Engineers (5th Div.Signal Coy.)
Cemetery: Menin Road South Military Cemetery
Rutherglen Lore information: Brother of Mrs. D. Keir, 17 Church Street, Cambuslang.
Australian Attestation information: Place of birth – Rutherglen; trade – painter; NOK – sister Mrs.Nellie Keir, 17 Church Street, Cambuslang.
1901 census information:
Address: 8 Crosshill Road, Rutherglen.
Father: William (50) coal miner, born about 1851 in Glasgow.
Mother: Ellen (44) born about 1857 in England.
Brother: John (16) coal miner, born about 1885 in Glasgow.
Brother: James (13) born about 1888 in Rutherglen.
Brother: Samuel (11) born about 1890 in Rutherglen
Self: Henry (7) born about 1894 in Rutherglen.
Sister: Marion Burley (24) shop keeper, born about 1877 in Rutherglen.
Nephew: Thomas Burley (8 months) born about 1900 in Rutherglen.
Newspaper transcript – Sapper H. McKay, Cambuslang. Mrs Keir, 17 Church Street, Cambuslang, has received intimation that her brother, Sapper Henry McKay, R.E., Australian Imperial Forces, died of wounds on October 27. Prior to emigrating to Australia five years ago he served an apprenticeship with Robert Bryson, painter, Rutherglen. He was 24 years of age.