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Donald Brown |
CWGC:
Rank: Corporal
Regiment: Machine Gun Corps (Infantry), 237th Company
No: 34132
Date of Death: 4th October 1917
Age: 20
Buried: Tyne Cot Cemetery
Additional Information: Son of Colin and Jessie Brown, 10 Craigpark Drive, Dennistoun
SNWM:
Rank: Corporal
Regiment: Machine Gun Corps
No: 34132
Formerly Cameron Highlanders, No. 2831
Place of Birth: Glasgow
Date of Death: 4th October 1917
Place of Death: France & Flanders
Cause of Death: Killed in Action
SDGW:
Rank: Corporal
Regiment: Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)
No: 34132
Formerly Cameron Highlanders, No. 2831
Place of Birth: Glasgow
Place of Residence: Dennistoun
Place of Enlistment: Inverness
Date of Death: 4th October 1917
Place of Death: France & Flanders
Cause of Death: Killed in Action
MIC: Donald Brown, Corporal, Machine Gun Corps, No. 34132. Medal Entitlement: British War & Victory Medals.
Service Records:
Donald Brown, 10 Craigpark Drive, Dennistoun
Attested at Inverness, 23rd December 1914, Private, 4th Reserve Battalion, Cameron Highlanders, No. 2831
Age 18 years 4 months. Height 5 feet 8 ½ ins. Complexion Fresh. Eyes Grey, Hair Dark. Fitter/Clerk
Discharged at Norwich, 3rd May 1916 from ‘A’ Company
Transferred, 3rd May 1916 to Machine Gun Corps, 237th Company, No. 34132
Appointed Acting Corporal 18th February 1917, promoted Corporal 13th October 1917
N.O.K: Father, Colin Brown, 10 Craigpark Drive, Dennistoun
Killed in action on or shortly after 4th October 1917
Personal property forwarded to Mrs. Jessie Brown, 10 Craigpark Drive, Dennistoun
Deceased Soldiers Living Relatives form completed by father Colin Brown
Mother Jessie & Sister Jessie McKay Brown, all resident at 10 Craigpark Drive, Dennistoun
Soldiers’ Effects:
Donald Brown, Private, 237th Machine Gun Corps, No. 34132. Death on or after 4th October 1917 in action or of wounds.
Mother/Sole legatee: Jessie
De Ruvigny’s Roll of Honour, Volume 4:
Brown, Donald, Corporal, No. 34132, Machine Gun Corps, only son of Colin Brown, 10 Craigpark Drive, Dennistoun, Glasgow, by his wife Jessie, daughter of Archibald McKay, late of Easdale; born Glasgow, 11th September 1897; educated Whitehill Higher Grade School there; was a Clerk on the Caledonian Railway; enlisted in December 1914; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from 14th July 1916 and was killed in action 4th October following. A comrade wrote: “Your son was the most honourable and straightforward chap I ever met, and this was thought by most of the fellows who came in contact with him . . . I could write and tell you thousands of things that would make your heart swell with pride, but it gives pain as well as esteem.” Unmarried.
Glasgow Herald, 7th December 1917. ‘Deaths on Service’
Brown – Reported killed in action or died of wounds on 4th October 1917, Corporal Donald Brown, Machine Gun Corps, aged 20 years, beloved and only son of Mr and Mrs Colin Brown, 10 Craigpark Drive, Dennistoun.
Listed on Glasgow Roll of Honour: Donald Brown, Corporal, Highland Light Infantry, 191 Meadowpark Street, Dennistoun
Listed on Caledonian Railway Memorial, Central Station, Glasgow: Donald Brown
1901 Census, Living at 12 Dover Street, Glasgow (Finnieston/Charing Cross)
Father Colin Brown, age 36, School Board Officer, born Easdale, Argyll
Mother Jessie Brown, age 31, born Glasgow
Children: Jessie Brown, age 5, born Glasgow
Donald Brown, age 3, born Glasgow