Malcolm Gillies
Rank: Private
Service No: 7496
Place of Birth: Barony
Date of Death: 09/01/1918
Theatre of Death: F&F
Regiment/Service: Labour Corps (formerly 6585, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders)
Cemetery: Duhallow A.D.S Cemetery
Rutherglen Lore information: Husband of Mrs. Gillies, 79 Cambuslang Road, Rutherglen.
Soldier’s Effects information: Widow Janet M Gillies.
Newspaper transcript – Gillies, – Killed in action, on 9th January, Private Malcolm Gillies, Labour Company, dearly beloved husband of Janet Thomson, 79 Cambuslang Road, Rutherglen.
Newspaper transcript – Pte. M. Gillies, Rutherglen. Mrs Gillies, 79 Cambuslang Road, Rutherglen, has received intimation that her husband, Pte. Malcolm Gillies, Labour Coy., was killed on January 9. He was 40 years of age, and prior to joining the Army he was an upholsterer in Glasgow.
Also commemorated on the memorial in West Parish Church, Rutherglen.