Andrew Woodburn
Rank: Private
Service No: 11076
Place of Birth: Glasgow
Date of Death: 27/9/1915
Theatre of Death: F&F
Regiment/Service: Scots Guards (1st Bn.)
Memorial: Loos Memorial
Soldier’s Effects information: Father John Woodburn.
De Ruvigny’s Roll information: Private, No. 11076, 1st Battn. Scots Guards, eldest s. of John Woodburn, of 181, Farmeloan Road, Rutherglen, by his wife, Isabella T., daughter. of James Archibald Melville; b. Belfield, Lesmahagow, co. Lanark, 13 Jan. 1893; educ. Coalburn Public School there; was employed as a Traveller with Messers. Frame & Co., of Robertson Street, Glasgow, but enlisted after the outbreak of war 4 Sept. 1914; went to France in Feb. 1915; was wounded in March, and after spending 18 days in hospital in France, returned to the trenches and was killed in action at Loos 27 Sept. following. Buried in the Burial Ground there. He was a member of the Bellahouston Harriers, and of the Y.M.C.A.; unm.
1901 census information:
Address: Coalburn, Lesmahagow.
Father: John (35) barman, born about 1866 in Cambusnethan.
Mother: Isabella (33) born about 1868 in Dalserf.
Self: Andrew (8) born about 1893 in Lesmahagow.
Sister: Janet (6) born about 1895 in Lesmahagow.
Brother: James (4) born about 1897 in Lesmahagow.
Sister: Mary (3) born about 1898 in Lesmahagow.
Brother: John (9 months) born about 1900 in Lesmahagow.
1911 Census information:
The family are living in Avondale. The family comprises John 45, Isabella 43, Andrew 18, Janet L F 16, James M 14, Mary B 13, William M 9 and John B 6.