WORLD WAR I

Bingham War Memorial

S/10622	Pte Robert Fergusson	2nd Bn. Royal Highlanders
Medal Card	Awarded Victory and British Medals Address: c/o Gray, 57 Camp Street, Motherwell, 18th August 1920
AVL	AVL address: Nottingham Road No on Roll of Honour
SDiGW 1918 CWGC	S/10622 Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) Theatre of war Persian Gulf Enlisted at Motherwell Formerly 21507 Cameron Highlanders Died of wounds 10th June 1918. Buried at Ramleh War Cemetery, Israel/Palestine ref K.38. Son of William and Isabella Ferguson
	S prefix to service number: The man served in the Supply section of the ASC. The prefixes SS and S1 to S4 are also often seen. SS means that the man was specially enlisted for his trade: in other words, he came from civilian employment in a trade that was of direct value to work in the Supply section: he may have been a clerk, butcher or baker, for example. S1 to S4 mean that the man was enlisted into the first to fourth New Army depending on the number after the S. If the man has an ES prefix then he was re-enlisted after the war.		Possibly Robert’s expertise was with Fish.
Soldiers Effects	War gratuity of £12. 19. 2d. paid on 6/5/20 to sister Jean Back pay £1. 10. 10d. 1/4d paid 22/2/19 to sister Jean; £1.9.6 paid 3/5/19 to brother Joseph
War Memorial Motherwell	Robert’s name is on the Motherwell war memorial. William Ferguson is on the memorial too, probably his brother.

	Robert Fergusson
1892	Born Glasgow
Census 1901	Lived at 1014 Polockshaws Road, Cathcart, Lanarkshire with: Father: William, b. 1852 Ireland Mother: Isabella, B. 1859 Dunfermline Siblings: Agnes, b. 1883 Galashiels George, b. 1886 Glasgow Bella, b. 1888 Glasgow William, b. 1890 Glasgow Margaret S, b. 1895 Glasgow Joseph L S, b. 1899 Glasgow And Joseph Magee, b. 1863 Ierland	Fish salesman Fish salesman	Cathcart is an area of Glasgow.
Census 1911	1911 Scotland census not available on Ancestry
Research note	So far we have been unable to establish a connection between Ferguson and Nottingham Road, his AVL address. We could suppose perhaps that he was engaged to a young lady whose family lived there. The Grays of Market Place seem to have no connection with Motherwell.