James Welsh
Rank: Private
Service No: 14315
Place of Birth: Alva
Date of Death: 24/3/1917
Theatre of Death: France
Regiment/Service: Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) (10th Bn.)
Cemetery: Faubourg D’Amiens Cemetery, Arras
Rutherglen Lore information: Son of Mr and Mrs Welsh, 1 McAlpine, Rutherglen.
Soldier’s Effects information: Brother Robert, sister Margaret Forsyth and son Thomas.
1901 census information:
Address: 42 Brook Street, Alva.
Self: James (25) coal pit drawer, born about 1876 in Alva.
Wife: Lily (22) born about 1879 in Rutherglen.
Son: Thomas (3) born about 1898 in Rutherglen.
Son: James (7 months) born about 1900 in Rutherglen.
1911 Census information:
The family are living in Rutherglen. The family comprises James 35 and Thomas 14.
Newspaper transcript – Welsh. – Killed in action, 24th March, Pte. James Welsh, aged 42 years, eldest son of late Mr and Mrs Thomas Welsh, late of Alva, and 1 McAlpine Place, Rutherglen.