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Pte. William Robertson Paterson

British Army 15th Btn. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders

from:Pollokshields, Glasgow

(d.4th May 1917)

William Paterson was born on 14th of February 1895, the second son of a grocer in Glasgow. He enlisted on 23rd of November 1915 with the 15th Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders and was killed on 4th of May 1917 aged 22 years in the Arras Offensive and is buried in the Faubourg d'Amiens Cemetery in France.

William's elder brother, Alexander, was injured in WW1 fighting with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force. Their cousin, Wallace Campbell Paterson, was killed in 1916 whilst tunnelling underground for the Royal Engineers, and another cousin, James Speirs Anderson Paterson was seriously injured in 1915 whilst fighting with the Canadian Expeditionary Forces.

William was the son of William B. and Elizabeth Paterson, of 13, Herriet St., Pollokshields, Glasgow.



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