Private Robert Brown

Private Robert Brown , 2nd Battalion, Cameron Highlanders. He was killed in action in Belgium, aged 19, on 12th April 1915 near St Eloi and is buried in Cabaret Souchez British Cemetery, Souchez, France. The cemetery was named after a cafe which had stood on this spot until destroyed by German shellfire. Most of the 1915 casualties were reburied here after the War having been gathered in from battlefield burials.  He had been born in Coldstream and was the son of William and Jane Brown of Binning Cottage, Duns Road, Coldstream. ( His father had worked as a seedsman with Hogg and Wood in Coldstream He had enlisted as a Regular soldier in 1913 and by August 1914 he was serving with his Battalion at Poona, India. The Battalion went to France in December 1914. The photograph shows Scottish troops trying on their primitive gas masks.

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