Robert Thomson Gray
Rank: Private
Service No: 14174
Place of Birth: Cambuslang
Date of Death: 01/07/1916
Theatre of Death: F&F
Age: 25
Regiment/Service: Highland Light Infantry (16th Bn.)
Cemetery: Lonsdale Cemetery, Authuille
Additional information: Son of the late William and Janet Gray.
Rutherglen Lore information: Son of William Gray, 40 Hamilton Road, Rutherglen.
Soldier’s Effects information: Father William Gray and sister Charlotte.
1901 census information:
Address: 36 Wardlawhill Street, Rutherglen.
Father: William (50) coal miner, born about 1851 in Pollokshaws.
Mother: Janet H (49) born about 1852 in St Ninians.
Sister: Charlotte (17) dairy shopkeeper, born about 1884 in Cambuslang.
Self: Robert (9) born about 1892 in Cambuslang.
1911 census information:
The family are living in Rutherglen. The family comprises William 62, Janet 62, Charlotte P 25 and Robert Thomson 19.
Newspaper transcript – Mr Wm. Gary, 40 Hamilton Road, Rutherglen, has received official information that his only son, Private Robert T Gray, H.L.I., was killed in action. Previous to joining the Army he was an assistant ? in the Inland Revenue Office, Glasgow.
Also commemorated on the memorial at Stonelaw Parish Church, Rutherglen and on the family headstone in Rutherglen Cemetery.
Headstone transcript – Also their son Pte. Robert T Gray 16th H.L.I. killed in action in France 1st July 1916 aged 24 years.