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James Russell Hutton cap badgePrivate James Russell Hutton

2nd Battalion Gordon Highlanders
Service No: S/7902

James Russell Hutton grave

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Personal details

Family Information

Eldest son of Thomas Russell (1864-27/06/1945) and Margaret Brownlie Hutton (13/02/1968-08/01/1949) of 6 Bute Terrace, Whifflet, Coatbridge. Elder brother of Lance Corporal John Brownlie Hutton of the 6th Battalion Cameron Highlanders who was Killed in Action on the 26/09/1915. From the 1901 Census - Address - 267 Dundyvan Rd, Coatbridge - Thomas Hutton aged 34, Margaret Hutton aged 32, Margaret Hutton aged 11 (1890-21/12/1975), James Hutton aged 9, John Hutton aged 6, Mary Hutton aged 1, boarder John Brownlie aged 72. James and his brother John's Pension was awarded to their mother Margaret.

Born / Resided

Coatbridge / 6 Bute Terrace, Whifflet, Coatbridge.

Died

Killed in Action on the 16/05/1915 from a snipers bullet on the 2nd day of the Battle of Festubert

Enlisted

Coatbridge

Employed

Clerk in the Scottish Iron and Steel Works, Glasgow.

Age

24 / DOB - 13/12/1891

Buried / Remembered

Le Touret Memorial (Panel 39 to 41), Pas de Calais, France.

Cemetery / Memorial Information

The Le Touret Memorial commemorates over 13,400 British soldiers who were killed in this sector of the Western Front from the beginning of October 1914 to the eve of the Battle of Loos in late September 1915 and who have no known grave. Almost all of the men commemorated on the Memorial served with regular or territorial regiments from across the United Kingdom and were killed in actions that took place along a section of the front line that stretched from Estaires in the north to Grenay in the south. This part of the Western Front was the scene of some of the heaviest fighting of the first year of the war, including the battles of La Bassée (10 October – 2 November 1914), Neuve Chapelle (10 – 12 March 1915), Aubers Ridge (9 – 10 May 1915), and Festubert (15 – 25 May 1915). Soldiers serving with Indian and Canadian units who were killed in this sector in 1914 and 1915 whose remains were never identified are commemorated on the Neuve Chapelle and Vimy memorials, while those who fell during the northern pincer attack at the Battle of Aubers Ridge are commemorated on the Ploegsteert Memorial.

Additional Information

The Battalion arrived at Zeebrugge on the 07/10/1914 and were part of the 20th Brigade, 7th Division. James arrived in France on the 28/03/1915. On the morning of the 16/05/1915 a comrade asked James for the use of his knife and as he moved his hand to give his comrade the knife a German sniper opened fire hitting James' hand with the bullet entering his body. Despite help from his comrades he died. The day before James died the Division was beginning its involvement in the Battle of Festubert (15th - 25th May 1915) which was in effect a second phase of the recently failed attack on Aubers Ridge. Once again, the attack would take the form of a pincer attack with two assault frontages: a northern one along the Rue du Bois near Port Arthur and Richebourg l’Avoue, and a southern one at Festubert. On the 16/05/1915 at 03.15a.m, on the 22nd Brigades left, the 20th Brigade are slowed by a deep ditch, and crossfire from the Quadrilateral position on their left front, untouched by the bombardment as it lay in the area between the two Divisional attacks. James is listed as LANCE CORPORAL and 3RD BATTALION on the Memorial. See Directory for his younger brother John's page. See photos for tribute from the Pulpit by the Rev Archibald Chisolm (Coatbridge Express 1,2 and 3). James is also remembered on the Coatbridge Technical College (with his brother John), Middle United Free Church Rolls of Honour (with his brother John) and at the Family Plot in Old Monkland Cemetery (see photos). See photos for James' Medal Index Card, his Newspaper clippings x 5, his name on the Le Touret Memorial, his Army Register of Soldiers Effects, his name in the National Probate Index, his Service Medal and Award Rolls, his CWGC Grave Registration, his name on the Le Touret Memorial Panel List, the Gordon Highlanders Cap Badge and James' Pension Records x 2.

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