John Pollock
Rank: Private
Service No: 763635
Place of Birth: Rutherglen
Date of Death: 1/1/1918
Theatre of Death: F&F
Age: 36
Regiment/Service: London Regiment (Artists’ Rifles) (28th Bn.)
Cemetery: Rocquigny-Equancourt Road, British Cemetery, Manancourt
Additional information: Son of Archibald and Elizabeth McDougall Pollock; husband of Catherine Pollock of 53 John Street, Dunoon, Argyll. Native of Rutherglen.
Soldier’s Effects information: Widow Catherine and children.
1901 census information:
Address: Eastcliffe, Rutherglen,
Mother: Elizabeth (60) born about 1841 in Barrhead.
Brother: William (33) optician shopkeeper, born about 1868 in Glasgow.
Sister: Helen (33) assists mother, born about 1868 in Glasgow.
Brother: Archibald (28) optician’s assistant, born about 1873 in Glasgow.
Self: John (19) electrician assistant, born about 1882 in Rutherglen.
Brother: James (17) pupil teacher, born about 1884 in Rutherglen.
Sister: Elizabeth Pollock (15) born about 1886 in Rutherglen.
1911 census information:
The family are living in Cathcart. The family comprises John 29, Catherine 29, Archibald 2 also living with the family are John’s brother James 27 and his sister Elizabeth 25.
Additional information: John was born on 18 Jul 1881 in Rutherglen. He married Catherine Reid on 28 Jun 1909 in Rutherglen. They had two children Archibald Pollock born 1908 in Cathcart and Helen Panton Pollock born 1914 in Edmonton, England.
Also commemorated on the memorial in Rutherglen Old Parish Church.