Name :- McFarlane, William
Nationality :- UK
Age :- 32
Rank :- Private
Number :- 22638
Medal :-
Service :- Army
Regiment / ship :- 3rd Bn., Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment)
Date of death :- 31st January, 1917 (missing since December 1916)
Cemetery / Memorial :- Rattray Parish Churchyard, Perthshire
Area of cemetery / memorial :- South west corner
Family information :- Son of John and Eliza Laing McFarlane
Extra information :-
Blairgowrie Advertiser 3rd February, 1917
On Wednesday the body of Pvt. William McFarlane, who went missing early in December, was found in the Earl Gray Dock, Dundee.
He was a native of Rattray, his father being Mr. John McFarlane, who was for a considerable period an overseer at Ashgrove Works, and is now employed in London, where he went some years ago. Since then his son had resided with his aunt at Robertson’s Land, Old Rattray, until he enlisted early in the war. He was invalided home from the front suffering from shell shock and was billeted in a Dundee hospital. While walking at the dock it is supposed he had stumbled and fallen into the water.
1901 Census
115, St. Ann’s Road, Tottenham, Middlesex, England
John McFarlane, head, 38, L.C.C. labourer, b. Scotland, Blairgowrie
Eliza McFarlane, wife, 38, b. Scotland, Brechin
William McFarlane, son, 15, screw maker, b. Blairgowrie
1891 Census
High Street, Brechin, Forfarshire
John MacFarlane, head, 26, spinning overseer, b. Rattray, Perthshire
Eliza MacFarlane, wife, 23, flax spinner, b. Brechin
William MacFarlane, son, 5, scholar, b. Rattray
Memorial Headstone in Rattray Parish Churchyard