Lieutenant Thomas Thorburn Brown

Lieutenant Thomas Elliot Thorburn Brown, 3rd ( Reserve ) Battalion attached 2nd Battalion, Kings Own Scottish Borderers. He died from wounds in the 56th Casualty Clearing Station in France on 22nd September 1918, aged 22. He had been born in Coleman, Texas, U.S.A. and was the son of Adam Thorburn Brown of Torquhan, Stow. He is buried in Grevillers British Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France. He had been educated at Marlborough College, Wiltshire and was commissioned from the O.T.C. in December 1914. The Battalion had been in action on 18th September in an attack on ” African Trench ” as part of a general attack by the Fourth and Third Armies and had  suffered 5 Officers wounded. The Battalion history does not name all the wounded but it seems likely that Lt. Thorburn Brown was one of them. He had been wounded twice previously. Once was on the Somme on 29th July in an attack near Longueval where Battalion casualties were heavy especially in Officers where 6 were killed and 9 wounded. Lieutenant Thorburn Brown had been born in Texas, U.S.A. his father having emigrated there in 1882. The photographs show the Allies advancing against the retreating Germans during the final 100 days of the War.