William Curragh Rodger

This stone is in Cumnock old cemetery.  William Curragh Rodger was born in Auchtermuchty in Fife about 1896, he is the grandson of William Orr Curragh and Bethia Graham, son of Agnes Graham and Robert Rodger.

In the 1901 census the family in is 415 Brick Row Lugar
Robert Rodger     24 ammonia finisher? b Whithorn
Agnes Rodger     34 b b Lugar
William Rodger     5 b Auchtermuchty
James Rodger     3 b Cumnock
Bethia Rodger     1  b Auchinleck

Cumnock Connections tree

Ancestry has this

Name:	William C. Rodger
Residence:	Saltcoats, Ayrshire
Death Date:	22 Mar 1918
Death Location:	France & Flanders
Enlistment Location:	Ayr
Rank:	Private
Regiment:	Royal Scots Fusiliers
Battalion:	6/7th Battalion
Number:	48240
Type of Casualty:	Died of wounds
Theatre of War:	Western European Theatre

He is down as W C Rodgers on CWGC He died of wounds in France on 22 March 1918 and is commemorated in Grevilliers British Cemetery in France. He is not on Cumnock Memorial, nor Auchinleck, Lugar, Saltcoats or Auchtermuchty.