John Smith
Rank: Lance Corporal
Service No: S/1704
Place of Birth: Barony
Date of Death: 19/7/1916
Theatre of Death: F&F
Age: 23
Regiment/Service: Seaforth Highlanders (A Coy. 7th Bn)
Cemetery: St Sever Cemetery, Rouen
Additional information: Son of John Campbell Smith and Margaret Smith, 7 Hamilton Road, Rutherglen.
Rutherglen Lore information: Son of Mr and Mrs Smith, 7 Hamilton Road, Rutherglen.
1901 census information:
Address: 132 Swanston Street, Glasgow.
Father: John (37), grocer shopkeeper, born about 1864 in Kirkmichael.
Mother: Maggie (36) born about 1865 in Glasgow.
Self: John (7) born about 1894 in Glasgow.
Sister: Lillie (6) born about 1895 in Glasgow.
Brother: James (3) born about 1898 in Glasgow.
Newspaper transcript – Official information has been ? by Mr and Mrs Smith, 7 Hamilton Road, Rutherglen, of the death of their son, Lance-Corporal John Smith, Seaforth Highlanders. He was formerly employed as a cabinet maker with Mr R. S. Abbey, Parliamentary Road, Glasgow. He was a member of the Rutherglen Harriers.
Also commemorated on the memorial at West Parish Church, Rutherglen.