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Name: James Lennox Torrance
Number: 92744
Regiment: Royal Field Artillery.
Rank: Driver.
Born: 30 August 1895 Kilnside Road, Paisley.
Died: 29 October 1918 of Influenza/Pneumonia      Age 23
Buried: St. Pol British Cemetery, France.

Son of Gavin and Jeanie L. Torrance,
'Dalblair', 24 Whitehill Avenue, Stepps.

1901 Census: 17 Union Avenue, Ayr.
1911 Census: 'Dalblair', 24 Whitehill Avenue, Stepps.

CWGC site:   Yes.
SNWM site:   Yes.
Kirkintilloch Herald mention 6 November 1918.
Commemorated on family stone, Riddrie Cemetery, Glasgow.

James Torrance had been a bank clerk with the National Bank of Scotland, St. Rollox office and is commemorated on the Bank War Memorial now re-erected in the Royal Bank headquarters in Gogarburn, Edinburgh.