Wylie Shields
Rank: Sapper
Service No: 2006614
Place of Birth: Rutherglen
Date of Death: 12/10/1917
Age: 32
Regiment/Service: Canadian Engineers
Cemetery: St Jean-Sur-Richelieu (St James) Cemetery, Quebec
Additional information: Son of David and Harriette Shields, of 15 Fairie Street, Rutherglen.
Rutherglen Lore information: Son of Mr and Mrs David Shields, 15 Fairie Street, Rutherglen.
Canadian Attestation Papers information: DOB 16th April 1885. NOK David Shields, 15 Fairie Street, Rutherglen. Trade bookkeeper
1901 census information:
Address: Stonelaw Row, Rutherglen.
Father: David (56), blacksmith, born about 1845 in Rutherglen.
Mother: Harriet (55) born about 1846 in Argyllshire.
Sister: Harriet (28), power loom weaver, born about 1873 in Rutherglen.
Brother: David (18), clerk, born in Rutherglen.
Self: Wylie (15), stationery apprentice, born about 1886 in Rutherglen.
Brother: William (10), born about 1891 in Rutherglen.
Newspaper transcript – Shields.- At Canadian Engineers’ Training Depot, St John’s, Quebec, on 12th October. 1917, Wylie, beloved son of Mr and Mrs David Shields, 15 Farie Street, Rutherglen.