John Black

John Black, another resident of Skares when he enlisted, was born in Closeburn in Dumfriesshire.

He served in the 6/7th Battalion of the Royal Scots Fusiliers and died in France/Flanders on 9th April 1917.

He is buried in the Faubourg d'Amiens Cemetery, Arras, France and is remembered on the War Memorial in Cumnock.

Ancestry has this on him

NAME:	John Black
BIRTH PLACE:	Closeburn, Kircudbrightshire
RESIDENCE:	Skares, Cumnock
DEATH DATE:	9 Apr 1917
DEATH PLACE:	France and Flanders
ENLISTMENT PLACE:	Cumnock, Ayrshire
RANK:	Private
REGIMENT:	Royal Scots Fusiliers
BATTALION:	6 7th Battalion
REGIMENTAL NUMBER:	12262
TYPE OF CASUALTY:	Died of wounds
THEATRE OF WAR:	Western European Theatre

This looks like the family in the 1901 census in Dumfries (Troqueer parish)
37 Church St
John Black     33 railway labourer
Annie Black     32
Marion Black     12
John M Black     9
Mary Black     6
Sarah J Black     6
Maggie Black     2

Update: This paragraph added 4/4/2018
He was born John Murray Black on 17 sep 1891 at Townfoot Cottage in Closeburn to John Black ploughman and Annie Lind.

He had previously been shot in the left shoulder blade on 28 Sep 1915 and was home in Skares on leave after that. He was a bomb thrower. (Cumnock Chronicle  5 Nov 1915)

On the 1915 valuation roll John Black collier lived at 132 Skares.

He is mentioned along with Thomas Campbell in the Chronicle. He was married with three children.
His wife was Agnes Reid and one of his children was Frederick Thomson Black born at 132 Skares Row in 1914.

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Here is his entry on Commonwealth War Graves Commission

He is on Cumnock War Memorial as Corporal John Black R.S.F.