Hugh Forsyth
Rank: Private
Service No: S/8479
Place of Birth: Rutherglen
Date of Death: 14/10/1916
Theatre of Death: Persian Gulf
Age: 22
Regiment/Service: Seaforth Highlanders (1st Bn.)
Cemetery: Amara War Cemetery
Additional information: Husband of B Forsyth of 17 Bouverie Street, Rutherglen.
Soldier’s Effects information: Widow Bridget Forsyth.
1901 census information:
Address: 25 Bouverie Street, Rutherglen.
Father: Andrew (40) coal miner, born about 1861 in Motherwell.
Mother: Annie (35) born about 1866 in Ireland.
Brother: James (14) coal miner, born about 1887 in Rutherglen.
Sister: Isabella (10) born about 1891 in Rutherglen.
Self: Hugh (8) born about 1893 in Rutherglen.
Sister: Agnes (6) born about 1895 in Rutherglen.
Sister: Annie (3) born about 1898 in Rutherglen.
Sister: Christina (11 months) born about 1900 in Rutherglen.
Newspaper transcript – Official intimation has been received by Mrs Forsyth, 17 Bouverie Street, Rutherglen, that her husband, Private Hugh Forsyth, Seaforth Highlanders, died in hospital in the East on October 14.1916, from dysentery. He was 2 years of age and leaves a widow and three children.