James Dick
Rank: Lance Corporal
Service No: 1827
Place of Birth: Glasgow
Date of Death: 04/06/1915
Theatre of Death: Gallipoli
Regiment/Service: Royal Engineers (2nd (Lowland) Div. Field Coy.)
Memorial: Helles Memorial
Rutherglen Lore information: Son of Mrs. Dick, 4 Moray Place, Rutherglen.
Soldier’s Effects information: Father James Dick and Mother Sarah Dick.
1901 census information:
Address: 71 Chapel Street, Rutherglen.
Father: James C (37) mechanic, born about 1864 in Glasgow.
Mother: Sarah (31) born about 1870 in Glasgow.
Sister: Margaret (9) born about 1892 in Rutherglen.
Self: James (8) born about 1893 in Glasgow.
Sister: Jane C (5) born about 1896 in Rutherglen.
Brother: John (3) born about 1898 in Rutherglen.
Sister: Sarah S (1) born about 1900 in Rutherglen.
1911 census information:
The family are living in Rutherglen. The family comprises James C 46, Sarah 37, James 18, Jane 16, John 13, Sarah S 11, Berties S 2 and Elizabeth 0
Newspaper transcript – Rutherglen. Mrs. Dick, 4 Moray Place, Rutherglen, has been officially informed that her son Lance-Corporal James Dick (22) has been killed. He was in the 2nd Lowland Field Coy. Royal Engineers (Territorials).
Also commemorated on the memorial at Stonelaw High School, Rutherglen and in Rutherglen Old Parish Church.
*On both CWGC and SNWM websites it has his rank listed as sapper however on the Soldier’s effects he is listed as a lance corporal.