James Paterson
Enlisted in RAF 13th May 1918 (3 days after his eighteenth birthday) and sent to No. 1 OTTW at St Leonards, near Hastings
10th May 1900 Glasgow
Died at Hastings, after an operation “necessitated by military service”.
Son of John Somerville Paterson and Mary B. Dow Paterson, of 113, West Regent St., Glasgow.
John Paterson(d. 1931) & Mary Dow (d. 1956)
Solicitor of Patrick & Paterson, 113 West Regent Street, Glasgow and at Town Clerk’s Office, Kirkintilloch
None known
Unmarried
Albert Road Academy, Pollokshields
Hutchesons’ Grammar School
School boy
Not found
Not found
Not on Scottish National War Memorial
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 Ancestry (www.ancestry.co.uk), Findmypast (www.findmypast.co.uk
Commonwealth War Graves Commission – www.cwgc.org
Family Search – www.familysearch.org
The Long, Long Trail – http://www.1914-1918.net/
Scotlands People – www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk
The Scottish War Memorials Project – www.warmemscot.s4.bizhat.com
De Ruvigny’s Roll of Honour, volume 4
Gallery
James Paterson Primus Glasgow Necropolis
Credits
Compiled by Morag Fyfe, Historical and Genealogical Researcher for The Friends of Glasgow Necropolis.