James Hunter Lawrie

RankSecond Lieutenant James Hunter Lawrie - Glasgow University Photo - headshot
MedalsBritish War Medal, Victory Medal
RegimentKing's Own Scottish Borderers, 3rd Battalion attached 7th /8th Battalion
Military Service

1915 Commissioned into 3rd Battalion KOSB on 12th July.  He landed in France on 11th May 1916 and joined the 7/8th Battalion (46th Brigade, 15th (Scottish) Division) on the 16th May.  Most of Lawrie’s short time with the battalion was spent in trench work in the Hulluch Sector until the battalion left for the Somme on the 21st July.  The battalion took over trenches on 7th August and 2 days later Lawrie, and several other men, were killed by a shell.

Born

c1896

Death9th August 1916
Circumstances of Death

Killed in action.

Age20
BurialDartmoor Cemetery, Becordel-Becourt, I. D. 74.

His parents chose the phrase ‘He died for us’ to be added to the headstone.

James Hunter Lawrie Grave 1919/20 prior to erection of GWGC stone - courtesy of Lawrie B Short

James Hunter Lawrie Grave 1919/20 prior to erection of GWGC stone – courtesy of Lawrie B Short

CWGC Information

Son of Ephraim S. and Margaret Lawrie, of 317 Onslow Drive,
Dennistoun, Glasgow

Parents

Ephraim S Lawrie (c1863-1925) & Margaret Hunter (c1860-1932)

Father's Occupation

Slater of E S Lawrie & Co, St Mungo Street, Townhead, Glasgow

Siblings

Andrew (1888-1914), Jane F Lawrie (1890-1959), Catherine M (1893-1947), Rev Dr John S (1897-1978), Margaret (1899-)

James Lawrie (in the middle) with his younger brother Ephraim (John) and his sister Margaret (Meg)

James Lawrie (in the middle) with his younger brother Ephraim (John) and his sister Margaret (Meg)

Spouse

Unmarried

Education

Haghill Public School
Whitehill Higher Grade School
Glasgow University

Occupation

Apprentice civil engineer with Kyle, Dennison & Laing

1901 Census

27 St Mungo Street, Glasgow

Home Address

317 Onslow Drive, Dennistoun, Glasgow

Glasgow NecropolisCompartment Sextus Lair 341-342
Other Memorials

Scottish National War Memorial
Whitehill School War Memorial

 

Other Information

Scottish National War Memorial
Whitehill School War Memorial

Acknowledgements and Sources

Much of the information on which this profile is based is drawn from various internet sources which are listed below.  The Friends of Glasgow Necropolis also wish to make full acknowledgement and thanks for the permitted use of any information or images generously supplied specifically for exhibition, publication or display in connection with The Roll of Honour and accompanying profiles to Mr Lawrie B Short, the King’s Own Scottish Borderers Regimental Museum, Ancestry, and Find my past.

Commonwealth War Graves Commission

Family Search

Scotlands People

The Long, Long Trail

The Scottish War Memorials Project

A Border Battalion: the history of the 7/8th (Service) Battalion King’s Own Scottish Borderers.  1920.

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Credits

Compiled by Morag Fyfe, Historical and Genealogical Researcher for The Friends of Glasgow Necropolis.

 
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