John Brown – age 30 – Private/Signaller (15317) 6th/7th Battalion, Royal Scots Fusiliers.
John had been a dyker and he came home from Canada to enlisted in January 1915. He landed with the 7th RSF at Boulogne in July 1915 and fought at the battle of Loos in September. Due to illness he was evacuated to the Scottish Military Hospital at Stobhill in Glasgow in February 1917 and he was discharged from the army and awarded a Silver War Badge (215473) in May 1917. He died of tuberculosis two years later at the family home of Briarbush. His father had died two days earlier.
Born 1889 in Keir, Dumfriesshire. Son of John and Janes Moyes (Peggie) Brown of Briarbush, Penpont.
Died on 16 June 1919 and buried in Penpont Parish Churchyard.
John had been a dyker and he came home from Canada to enlisted in January 1915. He landed with the 7th RSF at Boulogne in July 1915 and fought at the battle of Loos in September. Due to illness he was evacuated to the Scottish Military Hospital at Stobhill in Glasgow in February 1917 and he was discharged from the army and awarded a Silver War Badge (215473) in May 1917. He died of tuberculosis two years later at the family home of Briarbush. His father had died two days earlier.
Born 1889 in Keir, Dumfriesshire. Son of John and Janes Moyes (Peggie) Brown of Briarbush, Penpont.
Died on 16 June 1919 and buried in Penpont Parish Churchyard.
John Brown – age 30 – Private/Signaller (15317) 6th/7th Battalion, Royal Scots Fusiliers.
John had been a dyker and he came home from Canada to enlisted in January 1915. He landed with the 7th RSF at Boulogne in July 1915 and fought at the battle of Loos in September. Due to illness he was evacuated to the Scottish Military Hospital at Stobhill in Glasgow in February 1917 and he was discharged from the army and awarded a Silver War Badge (215473) in May 1917. He died of tuberculosis two years later at the family home of Briarbush. His father had died two days earlier.
Born 1889 in Keir, Dumfriesshire. Son of John and Janes Moyes (Peggie) Brown of Briarbush, Penpont.
Died on 16 June 1919 and buried in Penpont Parish Churchyard.
John had been a dyker and he came home from Canada to enlisted in January 1915. He landed with the 7th RSF at Boulogne in July 1915 and fought at the battle of Loos in September. Due to illness he was evacuated to the Scottish Military Hospital at Stobhill in Glasgow in February 1917 and he was discharged from the army and awarded a Silver War Badge (215473) in May 1917. He died of tuberculosis two years later at the family home of Briarbush. His father had died two days earlier.
Born 1889 in Keir, Dumfriesshire. Son of John and Janes Moyes (Peggie) Brown of Briarbush, Penpont.
Died on 16 June 1919 and buried in Penpont Parish Churchyard.
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