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Carruthers was gazetted a temporary Second Lieutenant on 26th April 1917 and undertook his initial training with the 3rd Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers at Withernsea. He was posted to France on 21st June 1917 and reached 11th Battalion on 28th June.
6 weeks later in the Battle of Pilkem (Third Ypres) he went into action commanding No 2 Platoon ‘A’ Company. At 5am, 25 minutes after the attack started, Carruthers and his platoon captured some houses and secured 2 machine guns and 60 prisoners. He does not feature again in the battalion war diary until the day’s losses are recorded and he is noted as the only officer killed that day.

1891, Rutherglen

Killed in action

Son of Jessie Carruthers, of “Olinda,” of 7, Mitchell Drive, High Crosshill, Rutherglen, Glasgow, and the late William Carruthers. F.I.C.

William Carruthers (c1851-1916) & Jessie W Maclellan (c1860-1930)

Manufacturer/dealer in dentist material

William (c1887-), James S (c1889-), John L (c1896-)

unmarried

Royal Technical College, Glasgow c1911
Fellow of the Institute of Chemistry

Worked for BF Goodrich Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio, USA then chief chemist at the Dunlop Tire and Rubber Goods Co., Toronto, Canada

Olinda, High Crosshill, Rutherglen

Olinda Villa, Rutherglen

Olinda, 7 Mitchell Drive, High Crosshill, Rutherglen

Olinda, 7 Mitchell Drive, High Crosshill, Rutherglen

Scottish National War Memorial
Royal Technical College Roll of Honour

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11^th Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers, War Diary September 1915 – August 1918. (TNA WO 95/2246)