John Lockhart
Rank: Private
Service No: S/11590
Place of Birth: Coatbridge
Date of Death: 26/09/1915
Theatre of Death: F&F
Age: 21
Regiment/Service: Cameron Highlanders (6th Bn.)
Memorial: Loos Memorial
Additional information: Son of George Lockhart of 33 Millar Terrace, Farme, Rutherglen and the late Margaretta Webster Lockhart.
Rutherglen Lore information: Son of Mr. George Lockhart, 22 Millar Terrace, Rutherglen.
Soldier’s Effects information: Miss Jeanie Campbell later Mrs. Jane C Frisby.
1901 census information:
Address: 113 Dundyvan Road, Coatbridge.
Father: George (26) foreman rivet maker, born about 1875 in Coatbridge.
Mother: Margaret (24) born about 1877 in Whifflet, Lanarkshire.
Self: John (6) born about 1895 in Whifflet, Lanarkshire.
Sister: Christina (5) born about 1896 in Whifflet, Lanarkshire.
Brother: Robert (3) born about 1898 in Whifflet, Lanarkshire.
Brother: George (7 months) born about 1900 in Whifflet, Lanarkshire.
1911 census information:
The family are living in Rutherglen. The family comprises Margaretta 35, Peggy 25, John 16, Christina 15, Robert 13, George 10, Margaret 7, William 4 and John 0.
Newspaper transcript – Mr George Lockhart, 33 Miller Terrace, has received official notice that his son, Private John Lockhart, Cameron Highlanders, who was notified wounded and missing last November, was killed in action in September, 1915, at Loos. Before the war Private Lockhart was employed as an engineer in the Rivet, Bolt, and Nut Company, Rutherglen.
Also commemorated on the memorial at Wardlawhill Parish Church, Rutherglen.