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Robin (Robert) Hood Brechin
















CWGC:

Rank: Second Lieutenant

Regiment: Seaforth Highlanders, 5th Battalion, attached 1st Battalion, Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders

Date of Death: 30th September 1916

Age: 21

Buried: Struma Military Cemetery

Additional Information: Son of Mr and Mrs Robert H. Brechin, Glasgow.


SNWM:

Rank: Second Lieutenant

Regiment: Seaforth Highlanders, 5th Battalion

Date of Death: 30th September 1916

Cause of Death: Killed in Action


SDGW:

Rank: Second Lieutenant

Regiment: Seaforth Highlanders, 5th (Sutherland and Caithness Highland) Battalion (Territorial)

Date of Death: 30th September 1916

Cause of Death: Killed in Action


MIC:

Robert Hood Brechin, Second Lieutenant, 5th Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders, attached 1st Battalion, Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders.  Killed in Action 30th September 1916

Brother W.K.A. Brechin applied for medals 9th February 1922. 30 Highburgh Road, Glasgow


Supplement to the London Gazette, 13th December 1915, Page 12433

Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs, The Duke of Albany’s)

Private Robert Hood Brechin, from the Highland Light Infantry, to be Second Lieutenant. Dated 7th December 1915.


Soldiers’ Effects:

R. H. Brechin, Second Lieutenant, Seaforth Highlanders. Killed in Action 30th September 1916


Listed on Glasgow High School Memorial: Robert Hood Brechin

Sergeant in Glasgow High School Officer Training Corps.

Enlisted as a Private (220914) in the Glasgow Highlanders (9th Battalion, Highland Light Infantry) September 1914.


Listed on Glasgow Roll of Honour:

Robert H. Brechin, 2nd Lieutenant, Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders, Redlands, Maxwell Park.


Listed on Pollokshields Church of Scotland Memorial: Robert H. Brechin


Listed on Glasgow University Memorial: Robert H. Brechin


Glasgow University. Biography:

He was born at Circus Drive, Dennistoun, Glasgow19th July 1895, son of Robert H. Brechin, Butcher, and Jane Ivison Brechin nee Armstrong. The family moved to 42 Sherbrooke Avenue, Pollokshields between 1901 – 1911. Educated at Whitehill Higher Grade School and the High School of Glasgow, where he held the rank of Sergeant in the Officer Training Corps. When he left school in 1912 he went on to Glasgow University, enrolling in 1912 to study for an Arts degree. In his first year, he enrolled in the Ordinary classes of Latin and Greek. In second year, 1913-14, he took classes in Logic, Geography, and Constitutional Law and History. He did not return to complete his degree, however. Among the first to enlist, initially as a Private in the 9th Bn. Highland Light Infantry, he was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant in the 5th Bn. Seaforth Highlanders on the 7th December 1915, and trained with that Regiment at Ripon in Yorkshire until May 1916. After a period of training in Zeitoun, Cairo, he served with his Regiment in Greece. In August 1916, and now attached to the 1st Bn. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, he was stationed in Salonika. The army’s immediate objective in the Struma Valley was to liberate the fortified villages of Karajokois from Bulgarian control. This successful action began on the 30th September. On that day, Lieutenant Brechin sustained a fatal gunshot wound to his head while leading his men. Brechin was killed in action during the Salonika Campaign at Macedonia on 30 September 1916, aged 21.


The Scotsman, 9th October 1916. ‘Deaths’

Brechin – Killed in action on 30th September, aged 21, Robert Hood Brechin, Second Lieutenant, Seaforths attached Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, eldest son of Mr and Mrs Robert H. Brechin, Redlands, Maxwell Park, Glasgow.


The Scotsman, 9th October 1916

Second Lieutenant Robert Hood Brechin, Seaforth Highlanders attached Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (killed), was 21 years of age and the eldest son of Mr and Mrs Robert H. Brechin, Sherbrook Avenue, Maxwell Park, Glasgow. He was a native of Glasgow and before he joined the Army a few weeks after the outbreak of war. He was a student at Glasgow University.

1901 Census, Living at 22 Circus Drive, Dennistoun

Father Robert H. Brechin, age 52, Flesher, born Kilsyth

Mother Jane I. Brechin, age 39, born England

Children: Jane I. Brechin, age 13, Scholar, born Glasgow

Annie A. Brechin, age 10, Scholar, born Glasgow

Mary Y. Brechin, age 7, Scholar, born Glasgow

Robert H. Brechin, age 5, born Glasgow


1911 Census, Living at 42 Sherbrook Avenue, Pollokshield, East Renfrewshire

Father Robert H. Brechin, age 62, Flesher, born Kilsyth

Mother Jane Brechin, age 49, born England (Married 24 years, 8 children born, 5 still living)

Children: Jane I. Brechin, age 23, born Glasgow

Annie Brechin, age 20, born Glasgow

Mary Y. Brechin, age 17, born Glasgow

Robert H. Brechin, age 15, Scholar, born Glasgow

William Brechin, age 9, Scholar, born Glasgow


Glasgow Necropolis:

Robert Hood Brechin in memory of his daughter Agnes Hood

Who died 31st December 1889 aged 9 months

James his son born 13th January 1900, died 17th January 1900

Dorothy Kingo Adam his daughter born 24th February 1898,

Died 28th February 1901

Robert Hood his son, Second Lieutenant, 5th Seaforth Highlanders

Killed in action at Karadzakoi-Bala & Zir, Macedonia,

30th September 1916 aged 21 years

Jane Ivison Armstrong his wife, born 5th April 1861

Died 31st December 1917

And of the above Robert Hood Brechin born 6th October 1848

Died 14th December 1918

Anne Armstrong his daughter born 1st July 1890, died 23rd March 1930

Jane Ivison, his eldest daughter born 8th October 1887

Died 16th August 1944