Robert Kelly
Rank: Private
Service No: 11829
Date of Death: 01/07/1916
Theatre of Death: F&F
Regiment/Service: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
Cemetery: Y Ravine Cemetery, Beaumont-Hamel
Rutherglen Lore Information: Son of Mr. and Mrs. Kelly, 15 Kirkwood Street, Rutherglen.
Soldier’s Effects information: Father Andrew and mother Marguerite.
1901 census information:
Address: 40 Greenhill Road, Rutherglen.
Father: Andrew (34) coal miner, born about 1867 in Hamilton.
Mother: Margt (32) born about 1869 in Rutherglen.
Brother: James (11) born about 1890 in Rutherglen.
Brother: Lawson (9) born about 1892 in Rutherglen.
Brother: Andrew (7) born about 1894 in Rutherglen.
Self: Robert (4) born about 1897 in Rutherglen.
Brother: William (1) born about 1900 in Rutherglen.
1911 census information:
The family are living in Rutherglen. The family comprises Andrew 44, Margaret 42, James 21, Lawson 19, Andrew 17, Robert 14, William 11, Gavin 8 and Allison 5.
Newspaper transcript – Mr and Mrs Andrew Kelly, 15 Kirkwood Street, Rutherglen, Private Robert Kelly, Inniskilling Fusiliers, was killed on July 1 or since. He was employed with his brother as a butcher at Main Street, Rutherglen, before the war.
Also commemorated on the memorial at East Parish Church, Rutherglen.
Robert’s brother William also served in the war. He was in the 1st Bn. Cameronians.