Robert McKerlie
Rank: Private
Service No: 1832
Date of Death: 06/07/1917
Regiment/Service: Australian Infantry (13th Bn.)
Memorial: Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial
Australian Attestation information: Place of birth – Stranraer; trade – blacksmith; NOK – mother Mrs.M. McKerlie, 67 Glasgow Road, Rutherglen.
1911 census information:
Address: 27 Farie Street, Rutherglen.
Grandfather: John (66) retired forrester, born about 1835 in Inch.
Grandmother: Mary (53) born about 1848 in Stranraer.
Uncle: James (20) joiner, born about 1881 in Inch.
Self: Robert (10) born about 1891 in Inch.
Brother: John (7) born about 1894 in Inch.
Brother: William (4) born about 1897 in Inch.
Half-brother: Henry McTaggart (6) born about 1895 in Inch.
1911 census information:
The family are living in Rutherglen. The family comprises John 75, Mary 65, Robert 21 and William 14.
Also commemorated on the memorial at West Parish Church, Rutherglen.
Half-brother of Harry McTaggart