William James Douglas
Rank: Private
Service No: 265400
Date of Death: 23/11/1917
Theatre of Death: Egypt
Age: 28
Regiment/Service: Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) (1st/7th Bn.)
Cemetery: Jerusalem War Cemetery
Additional information: Son of George A M Douglas and Grace G Pottinger Douglas of St. Brides, Burnside, Rutherglen.
Rutherglen Lore information: Son of G A H Douglas, St. Brides, Burnside.
Soldier’s Effects information: Sister Margaret A McDonald.
1901 census information:
Address: 6 Kelvinside Gardens, Glasgow.
Father: George A H (50) stationer, born about 1851 in Edinburgh.
Mother: Grace (51) born about 1850 in Kirkwall.
Sister: Maggie (15) born about 1886 in Glasgow.
Self: Willie (11) born about 1890 in Glasgow.
Newspaper transcript – Pte. W. J. Douglas, Glasgow. Mr G. A. H. Douglas, 172 Hope Street, Glasgow, has received official intimation that his only son, Pte. Wm. James Douglas, Scottish Rifles, was killed in action on November 23. He had been through the Gallipoli campaign. Private Douglas was 27 years of age, and was formerly with his father’s firm, of G. A. H. Douglas and Co., stationers, Glasgow.
Also commemorated on the memorial at Stonelaw Parish Church, Rutherglen.