Hugh Haughan
Rank: Private
Service No: 34095
Date of Death: 10/01/1918
Theatre of Death: Home
Regiment/Service: Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) (3rd Bn.)
Cemetery: Glasgow (St. Peter’s) Roman Catholic Cemetery
Rutherglen Lore information: Sons of Mrs. Haughan, 67 Glasgow Road, Rutherglen.
Soldier’s Effects information: Widow Mary and children.
Newspaper transcript – Pte. H. Haughen, Glasgow. Pte. Hugh Haughen, Scottish Rifles, who died while on active service recently, was formerly employed as a saddler in the Boag Leather Works, Bridgeton. He was 24 years of age, and has left a widow and child, who reside at 30 Gilmour Street, Oatlands.
Newspaper transcript – Haughen, – Of your charity, pray for the repose of the soul of Pte. Daniel Haughen, Royal Scots killed in action on 12th October, 191: also his brother, Pte. Hugh Haughen, who died on 1-th January, 1918. – R.I.P.
They little thought when leaving home
That they would ne’er return;
That they so soon in death would sleep,
And leave us here to mourn.
– Inserted by their sorrowing mother, brothers, and sisters, Rutherglen. (American papers please copy.)
Newspaper transcript – Mrs Haughen, 67 Glasgow Road, Rutherglen, has received intimation that her eldest son, Pte. Daniel Haughen, Royal Scots, was killed in action in France on 12th October last. Previous to enlisting Pte. Haughen was employed by Wm. Dixon, Ltd.
Mrs Haughen’s youngest son, Pte. Hugh Haughen, Scottish Rifles, died in Stobhill Hospital, Glasgow, on the 10th January, 1918, of peritonitis and appendicitis. Previous to enlisting, Pte. Hugh Haughen was employed as a practical saddler for a period of eight years with Messrs. George J. Govan & Son, saddlers, Rutherglen.
Brother of Daniel Haughan.
*Surname also spelt as Haughen and Haugham.