John Frame Aitken
Rank: Private
Service No: 4024
Place of Birth: Cambuslang
Date of Death: 15/07/1916
Theatre of Death: F&F
Age: 21
Regiment/Service: Highland Light Infantry (9th (Glasgow Hds.) Bn.)
Memorial: Thiepval Memorial
Additional Information: Son of Thomas and Janet F. Aitken of 19 Bouverie Street, Rutherglen.
Rutherglen Lore information: 15 Bouverie Street, Rutherglen.
Soldier’s Effects information: Father Thomas Aitken.
1901 census information:
Address: 15 Bouverie Street, Rutherglen.
Father: Thomas (36) cotton yarn worker , born about 1865 in Rutherglen.
Mother: Janet (37) born about 1864 in Rutherglen.
Sister: Mary (10) born about 1891 in Rutherglen.
Self: John (5) born about 1896 in Rutherglen.
1911 census information:
The family are living in Rutherglen. The family comprises Thomas 46, Janet 47, Mary 20, John 15, Archie 9 and Thomas 6.
Newspaper transcript – Mr Thomas Aitken, 15 Bouverie Street, Rutherglen, has received official intimation of the death of his son, Private John Aitken, H.L.I., who was killed in action on 15th inst., aged 21 years. He was a native of Ru’glen, and was employed in Mann Byars’ Glasgow Warehouse.
Also commemorated on the memorial at West Parish Church, Rutherglen.
* On the cenotaph and in the Rutherglen Lore book it states that J. Aitken served in the Gordon Highlanders. I cannot find a Private John Aitken in the Gordon Highlanders that died in WWI. Looking at the photograph of John Aitken the cap badge does not look like that of the Gordon Highlanders but more like that of the Highland Light Infantry which led me to the above person.