Philip Burns
Rank: Private
Service No: 3099
Place of Birth: Glasgow
Date of Death: 03/07/1916
Theatre of Death: F&F
Age: 27
Regiment/Service: Highland Light Infantry (15th Bn.)
Cemetery: Bouzincourt Communal Cemetery Extension
Additional information: Husband of Annie Burns of 31 Cathcart Road, Rutherglen.
Soldier’s Effects information: Widow Annie Burns.
1901 census information:
Address: Newhouse’s, Rutherglen.
Mother: Elizabeth (44) born about 1857 in Ireland.
Brother: Joseph (16) coal miner, born about 1885 in Glasgow.
Brother: William (15) born about 1886 in Glasgow.
Self: Philip (12) born about 1889 in Glasgow.
Sister: Lizzie (9) born about 1892 in Glasgow.
Brother: Arthur (6) born about 1895 in Glasgow.
Newspaper transcript – Mrs Burns, 33 Cathcart Road, Rutherglen, has received intimation from the War Office that her husband, Private Phillip Burns, H.L.I., was killed in action on July 3. He was 27 years of age and leaves five children. Before enlisting he was employed as a miner at Aikenhead Colliery, and his brother, Private William Burns, Scottish Riffles, was killed in action in December 1914.
Brother of William Burns