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Alexander Brown



Brother of Gunner John Square Brown, Bute Mountain Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery, Nos. 1412 & 300713

Brother of Corporal Robert Square Brown, Highland Light Infantry, No. 15518 & Labour Corps, No. 464465


CWGC:

Rank: Private

Regiment: Army Service Corps, Motor Transport

No: M/304723

Date of Death: 12th May 1917

Age: 33

Buried: Glasgow Eastern Necropolis (Janefield Cemetery)

Additional Information: Son of Alexander and Helen Square Brown, 49 Roselea Drive, Dennistoun.


SNWM:

Rank: Private

Regiment: Royal Army Service Corps

No: M/304723

Place of Birth: Barony, Glasgow

Date of Death: 12th May 1917

Place of Death: Home

Cause of Death: Died


Soldiers’ Effects:

Alexander Brown, Private, Army Service Corps, Motor Transport, No. M/304723. Died at Croydon War Hospital.

Father Alexander, Brothers Robert, James & John & Sister Elizabeth McMillan.


MIC: None Found


SDGW:

Rank: Private

Regiment: Royal Army Service Corps

No: M/304723

Place of Birth: Barony, Glasgow

Place of Residence: Dennistoun

Place of Enlistment: Glasgow

Date of Death: 12th May 1917

Place of Death: Home

Cause of Death: Died


Soldiers’ Effects:

Alexander Brown, Private, Army Service Corps, Motor Transport, No. M/304723. Died at Croydon War Hospital.

Father Alexander, Brothers Robert, James & John & Sister Elizabeth McMillan.


Glasgow Herald, 14th May 1917. ‘Deaths on Service’

Brown – At Crescent War Hospital, Croydon, on 12th May, Private Alexander Brown, Army Service Corps, late solicitor, 26 Renfield Street, Glasgow, eldest son of Alexander Brown, commercial traveller, 49 Roselea Drive, Dennistoun.


(Possibly) Listed on Bluevale Church Memorial, Duke Street, Glasgow (housed in Dennistoun New Parish Church: A. Brown


1891 Census, Living at 3 Whitevale Street, Dennistoun

Father Alexander Brown, age 37, Commercial Traveller, born Glasgow

Mother Helen Brown, age 32, born Paisley

Children: Elizabeth Brown, age 9, Scholar, born Glasgow

Alexander Brown, age 7, Scholar, born Glasgow

Robert Brown, age 5, Scholar, born Glasgow

James Brown, age 4, born Glasgow

John Brown, age 2, born Glasgow


1901 Census, Living at 3/1, 15 Roselea Drive, Dennistoun

Father Alexander Brown, age 47, Traveller for Fancy Goods, born Glasgow

Children: Elizabeth Brown, age 19, Housekeeper, born Glasgow

Alexander Brown, age 17, Law Apprentice, born Glasgow

Robert Brown, age 15, Drapery Apprentice, born Glasgow

James Brown, age 14, Scholar, born Glasgow

John Brown, age 12, Scholar, born Glasgow