Patrick Steele Hunter
Rank: 4th Engineer Officer
Date of Death: 16/04/1917
Theatre of Death: S.S. ‘Queen Mary’ (Glasgow)
Age: 26
Regiment/Service: Mercantile Marine
Memorial: Tower Hill Memorial
Additional information: Son of John and Margaret Hunter of 54 Woodland Avenue, Rutherglen. Born at Airdrie.
Select Births and Baptisms: born 17th Jan 1891 in Airdrie. Father John Hunter, mother Margaret Steele Hunter.
1901 census information:
Address: 38 Dechmont Street, Camlachie, Glasgow.
Father: John (44) foreman papermaker, born about 1859 in Edinburgh.
Mother: Margaret (48) born about 1859 in Airdrie.
Sister: Jane (14) born about 1887 in Airdrie.
Brother: John (12) born about 1889 in Airdrie.
Self: Patrick (10) born about 1891 in Airdrie.
Brother: Henry (7) born about 1894 in Colinton, Midlothian.
Sister: Isabella (5) born about 1896 in in Colinton, Midlothian.
1911 census information:
The family are living in Rutherglen. The family comprises of John 54, Margaret 52, Jane 23, John 22, Steele (Patrick) 20, Henry 17 and Isa 15.
Also commemorated on the family headstone in Rutherglen Cemetery.
Headstone reads – Their sons Henry 25th Batt. Canadians killed in action, 17th June 1916. Patrick Steele Engineer, Mercantile Marine lost with ship, 16th April 1917.
Brother of Henry Hunter