{"id":7528,"date":"2025-05-03T07:09:39","date_gmt":"2025-05-03T06:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/?p=7528"},"modified":"2025-05-03T07:09:39","modified_gmt":"2025-05-03T06:09:39","slug":"brown-d-pte-200616-4th-royal-scots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/2025\/05\/03\/brown-d-pte-200616-4th-royal-scots\/","title":{"rendered":"Brown D Pte 200616 4th Royal Scots"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7529\" style=\"width: 257px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Brown-D-Pte-200616-4th-Royal-Scots-De-Ruvignys-Roll-Of-Honour-Vol-5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7529\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7529\" src=\"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Brown-D-Pte-200616-4th-Royal-Scots-De-Ruvignys-Roll-Of-Honour-Vol-5-247x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"247\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Brown-D-Pte-200616-4th-Royal-Scots-De-Ruvignys-Roll-Of-Honour-Vol-5-247x300.jpg 247w, https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Brown-D-Pte-200616-4th-Royal-Scots-De-Ruvignys-Roll-Of-Honour-Vol-5.jpg 618w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 247px) 100vw, 247px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7529\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brown D Pte 200616 4th Royal Scots<\/p><\/div>\n<p>BROWN, DONALD, Private, No. 200616, 1\/4th (Territorial) Battn. (Queen&#8217;s Edinburgh Rifles) The Royal Scots (Lothian Regt.), s. of the late Thomas Brown, of 15, Graver Lane, Clayton Bridge, Manchester, Grocer and Sub-Postmaster, by his wife. Eleanor Margaret, dau. of John Lewis, of Rhayader; b. Clayton Bridge, Manchester.co. Lancaster, 2 Sept. 1898; educ. Brookdale Park School, Newton Heath; was an Apprentice Salesman; joined the Royal Scots 17 Nov. 1914, at the age of 16; served with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force in Gallipoli from 23 May, 1915, being present at the second landing there; after the evacuation. of the Peninsula he was sent to Egypt, and took part in the Palestine Campaign; was wounded near Jerusalem in Nov. 1917; in the following April he was sent to France, and was killed in action at Boiry Becquerelle. south-east of Arras, 25 Aug. 1918. Buried in Spinny Ave Trench, near Boiry Becquerelles. His Commanding Officer wrote: &#8220;He was a gallant and fearless soldier, and was killed while gallantly chasing the Bosches during the taking of the Hindenburg line.&#8221; Unm.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source : De Ruvigny&#8217;s Roll Of Honour Vol 5<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BROWN, DONALD, Private, No. 200616, 1\/4th (Territorial) Battn. (Queen&#8217;s Edinburgh Rifles) The Royal Scots (Lothian Regt.), s. of the late Thomas Brown, of 15, Graver Lane, Clayton Bridge, Manchester, Grocer and Sub-Postmaster, by his wife. Eleanor Margaret, dau. of John Lewis, of Rhayader; b. Clayton Bridge, Manchester.co. Lancaster, 2 Sept. 1898; educ. Brookdale Park School, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-royal-scots"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7528"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7530,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7528\/revisions\/7530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}