George Brownlie Browne

BROWNE, GEORGE BROWNLIE

Rank: Second Lieutenant
Date of Death: 07/02/1916
Age: 23
Regiment/Service: Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) 10th Bn. attd. 9th Bn.
Grave Reference: II. M. 8.
Cemetery: VERMELLES BRITISH CEMETERY
Additional Information: Son of G. Washington Browne, R.S.A., of Randolph Cliff, Edinburgh, and of the late Jessie B. Brownlie, his first wife.

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• First name(s) George Brownlie
• Last name Browne
• Service number -
• Rank Second Lieutenant
• Corps Royal Highlanders
• Service record Rank: Second Lieutenant, Corps: Royal Highlanders
• Archive reference WO372/3
• Archive reference description Campaign Medal Index Cards and Silver War Badge Cards
• Country Great Britain
• Image link http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/SearchUI/Details?uri=D1550060
• Record set World War One British Army medal index cards
• Category Armed forces & conflict
• Subcategory First World War

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"Second Lieutenant George Brownlie Browne, Black Watch (Royal Highlanders), was the second son of Sir George Washington Browne and Jessie Brownlie Browne, his first wife. He was educated at Viewpark Preparatory School, and Merchiston Castle School, Edinburgh, where he was a member of the Cadet Corps, and broke the school record in the cross-country race. After leaving school, he went to Ceylon for tea and rubber planting, and later to Southern India, returning to Scotland in 1915. Gazetted Second Lieutenant, 10th Black Watch, on 7 May 1915, he went to France in December 1915, attached to the 9th Battalion, and was killed in action on 7 February 1916, age 23, in the trenches near Loos. "