James McCann
Rank: Lance Corporal
Service No: 14801
Place of Birth: Chatham
Date of Death: 26/09/1915
Theatre of Death: F&F
Regiment/Service: Royal Scots Fusiliers (6th Bn.)
Memorial: Loos Memorial
Rutherglen Lore information: Son of Mr. and Mrs. McCann, 21 Greenbank Street, Rutherglen.
Soldier’s Effects information: Mother Margaret McCann.
1901 census information:
Address: 58 Elba Street, Ayr.
Mother: Maggie (22) born about 1879 in Ayr.
Sister: Maggie (4) born about 1897 in Ayr.
Self: James (2) born about 1898 in Chatham.
Brother: Thomas (10 months) born about 1900 in Ayr.
Newspaper transcript – Intimation has been received by Mr and Mrs McCann, 21 Greenbank Street, Rutherglen, that their son, Lance-Corporal James McCann, Royals Scots Fusiliers, who was reported missing at Loos, is now officially reported killed. he was 18 years of age, and was employed with the Scotia Bolt Works.