{"id":7921,"date":"2025-10-23T10:56:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T09:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/?p=7921"},"modified":"2025-10-23T10:56:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T09:56:16","slug":"brown-w-j-pte-20373-argyll-and-sutherland-highlanders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/2025\/10\/23\/brown-w-j-pte-20373-argyll-and-sutherland-highlanders\/","title":{"rendered":"Brown W J Pte 20373 Argyll And Sutherland Highlanders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BROWN, WILLIAM JOHN, Private, No. 20373. Princess Louise&#8217;s (Argyil and Sutherland Highlanders), attd. 1\/14th (Service) Battn. The Black Watch (Royal Highlanders); 3rd s. of Alexander Brown, of Annfield, Letham, co. Forfar, Farmer, by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of James Saddler; b. Letham aforesaid, 7 April, 1889; educ. Craichie and Letham Public Schools; assisted his father in the work of his farm; enlisted 22 Dec. 1916: left England for Egypt 16 April, 1917, and was drowned 4 May following, on H.M.S. Transylvania, when that ship was torpedoed in the Mediterranean. Buried in Zinola Cemetery, Savona, North Italy; unm.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source : De Ruvigny&#8217;s Roll Of Honour Vol 3<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BROWN, WILLIAM JOHN, Private, No. 20373. Princess Louise&#8217;s (Argyil and Sutherland Highlanders), attd. 1\/14th (Service) Battn. The Black Watch (Royal Highlanders); 3rd s. of Alexander Brown, of Annfield, Letham, co. Forfar, Farmer, by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of James Saddler; b. Letham aforesaid, 7 April, 1889; educ. Craichie and Letham Public Schools; assisted his father [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-argyll-and-sutherland-highlanders"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7921","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=7921"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7923,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7921\/revisions\/7923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}