John Currie
Rank: Private
Service No: S/4504
Place of Birth: Barony
Date of Death: 16/11/1915
Theatre of Death: F&F
Age: 26
Regiment/Service: Seaforth Highlanders (7th Bn.)
Cemetery: Railway Dugouts Burial Ground (Transport Farm)
Additional information: Son of Robert and Elizabeth Currie of 48 Jedburgh Avenue, Rutherglen.
Rutherglen Lore information: Son of R Currie, 48 Jedburgh Avenue.
Soldier’s Effects information: Mother Elizabeth Currie.
1901 census information:
Address: 19 Dunard Road, Rutherglen.
Father: Robert (44) grocer and wine merchant, born about 1857 in Glasgow.
Mother: Elizabeth (39) born about 1862 in Glasgow.
Sister: May (15) grocer’s assistant, born about 1886 in Glasgow.
Brother: Robert (15) born about 1886 in Glasgow.
Self: John (12) born about 1889 in Glasgow.
Sister: Jeanie (10) born about 1891 in Glasgow.
Brother: James (8) born about 1893 in Rutherglen.
Sister: Bessie (5) born about 1896 in Rutherglen.
Brother: Norman (3) born about 1898 in Rutherglen
Grandmother: Marion Paterson (78) born about 1823 in Tollcross.