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James Hunter Lawrie |
James Hunter Lawrie
CWGC:
Rank: Second Lieutenant
Regiment: King’s Own Scottish Borderers, 3rd Battalion, attached 7th/8th Battalion
Date of Death: 9th August 1916
Age: 20
Buried: Dartmoor Cemetery, Becordel-Becourt
Additional Information: Son of Ephraim S. and Margaret Lawrie, 317 Onslow Drive, Dennistoun.
SNWM:
Rank: Second Lieutenant
Regiment: King’s Own Scottish Borderers, 3rd Battalion, attached 7th Battalion
Date of Death: 9th August 1916
Cause of Death: Killed in Action
SDGW:
Rank: Second Lieutenant
Regiment: King’s Own Scottish Borderers, 3rd Battalion, attached 7th Battalion
Date of Death: 9th August 1916
Cause of Death: Killed in Action
MIC:
James Hunter Lawrie, 2nd Lieutenant, King’s Own Scottish Borderers. Killed in Action 9th August 1916
Medal Entitlement: British War & Victory Medals
Father: E. S. Lawrie Esq., 317 Onslow Drive, Dennistoun, Glasgow.
London Gazette, 9th July 1915, Supplement 29227, Page 6822
War Office, 12th July 1915. Regular Forces. Special reserve of Officers. Infantry
The undermentioned Cadets an ex-Cadets of the Officers Training Corps to be Second Lieutenants (on probation). Dated 1th July 1915: James Hunter Lawrie, 3rd Battalion, King’s Own Scottish Borderers.
Soldiers’ Effects:
Second Lieutenant, J. H. Lawrie, King’s Own Scottish Borderers. Killed in Action 9th August 1916
Glasgow Herald, 14th August 1917. ‘Deaths on Service’
Lawrie. Killed in action on 9th August 1916, James Hunter Lawrie, aged 20 years and 13 days, Second Lieutenant, the King’s Own Scottish Borderers, beloved second son of Mr and Mrs Ephraim S. Lawrie, Saint Mingo Street and 317 Onslow Drive, Dennistoun, Glasgow.
Listed on Glasgow University Roll of Honour (Biography):
James Hunter Lawrie was born on the 27th July 1896 to Margaret Lawrie and her husband Ephraim, a slater and plasterer. James had four siblings: Andrew (born in 1891), Jane (born in 1893), Catherine (born in 1895) and Ephraim (born in 1899), and the family lived at 27 St. Mungo Street, Glasgow. Following school, he became an apprentice civil engineer with the firm of Kyle, Dennison & Laing. In session 1914-1915, James also enrolled as an evening student of the Royal Technical College, forerunner of the University of Strathclyde. By this time, he was living at 317 Onslow Drive. The student register records his occupation as ‘Civil Engineer’ and his subjects of study as Mathematics, Mechanics Lectures and Mechanics Laboratory. These comprised the first-year curriculum of the five-year course for the Certificate in Civil Engineering. However, war intervened and James was never to complete his studies. As a member of the Officers Training Corps at the University of Glasgow, he was commissioned into the 3rd Bn. King’s Own Scottish Borderers. He landed in France with the 7th/8th Bn. of the Kings Own Scottish Borderers on the 11th May 1916. The 7th/8th Bn. previously fought in the Battle of Loos in 1915 and also participated in the Battles of Ponzieres, Flers-Courcelette, and Le Transloy in 1916. 2nd Lieutenant James Hunter Lawrie was killed in action on the 9th August 1916 at the age of 20. He is buried in Dartmoor Cemetery, where his headstone bears the inscription: ‘He died for us’. He is also memorialised in the Glasgow Necropolis, and on the Roll of Honour of the Royal Technical College, Glasgow.
Listed on Glasgow Roll of Honour: Lieutenant James Hunter Lawrie, King’s Own Scottish Borderers, 317 Onslow Drive, Dennistoun.
Listed on Glasgow Royal Technical College (Strathclyde University) Roll of Honour: 2nd Lieutenant James Hunter Lawrie, 3rd Battalion (attached 7/8th Battalion) King’s Own Scottish Borderers.
Glasgow Necropolis:
Ephraim S. Lawrie in loving memory of Andrew his son
Who died 31st October 1914 aged 23 years
James Hunter Lawrie, Second Lieutenant, King’s Own Scottish Borderers
Killed in action 9th August 1916 aged 20 years
Interred in Dartmoor Cemetery, Becordel, France
The above Ephraim Smith Lawrie died 24th January 1926 aged 62 years
Margaret Hunter his wife died 18th November 1932 aged 72 years
Their daughter Jane Fleming Lawrie died 5th August 1959 aged 67 years
Reverend Dr. John Smith Lawrie, O.B.E., M.C., D.D.
15.11.1898 – 15.12.1978
Isabella Simpson (Hill) Lawrie, 25.06.1900 – 02.01.1987
1901 Census, Living at 27 St. Mungo Street, Glasgow
Father Ephraim S. Lawrie, age 38, Slater & Plasterer, born Glasgow
Mother Margaret Lawrie, age 38, born Duntocher, Dunbartonshire
Children: Andrew Lawrie, age 10, Scholar, born Glasgow
Jane F. Lawrie, age 8, Scholar, born Glasgow
Catherine M. Lawrie, age 6, Scholar, born Glasgow
James H. Lawrie, age 4, born Glasgow
Ephraim S. Lawrie, age 2, born Glasgow
