James Dalzell
Rank: Lance Corporal
Service No: 40922
Place of Birth: Dumfries
Date of Death: 23/03/1918
Theatre of Death: France
Regiment/Service: Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) (9th Bn.)
Memorial: Pozieres Memorial
Rutherglen Lore information: Husband of Mrs. Dalzell, 28 Farme Loan Road, Rutherglen.
Soldier’s Effects information: Widow Jessie Dalzell and children.
1891 census information:
Address: Kirkland, Tinwald.
Father: William (23) blacksmith, born about 1868 in Tinwald.
Mother: Jemima (23) born about 1868 in Tinwald.
Self: James (6) born about 1885 in Tinwald.
Brother: John (2) born about 1889 in Tinwald.
1911 census information: The family are living in Rutherglen. The family comprises James 27 and Jessie 24.
Also commemorated on the memorial at West Parish Church, Rutherglen, Tinwald War Memorial and on the family headstone in Tinwald Churchyard, Dumfries.
Headstone reads – Also L/Cpl James Dalzell, 9th Scottish Rifles who was killed in action at St. Quentin, France 23rd March 1918, aged 33 years.