More about William Brown

For reasons unknown this man is not listed on the original Dundee Roll of Honour, but is remembered on the Harris Academy, Dundee, Roll of Honour.

William Brown   532   Black Watch

SERGEANT-MAJOR WILLIAM BROWN.

On Saturday Mrs Brown, 2 Carnegie Terrace, received word that her son, Company Sergeant-Major William Brown, had fallen on the field of battle, while fighting for King and country.

Sergeant-Major Brown who was attached to the 2nd Battalion the Black Watch, had for a number of years been on active service in India. On the outbreak of war, however, he was at once ordered to France with his regiment, and during all the months he has been on active service he has fought nobly and well.  He was esteemed and respected by all his men, while his officers knew him as a trustworthy N.C.O.  His death has come as a sad blow to his mother, and many local friends.

Sergeant-Major Brown went through the battle of Neuve Chapelle without being hurt.  Just after the big engagement, along with six friends he returned to the trenches.  They had not been sitting many minutes when a German bomb landed amongst them, killing four, and wounding Brown and the two others.  While recovering from the injuries sustained on that occasion, Brown received ten days leave of absence, and spent his brief holiday amongst his friends in Carnoustie.

Broughty Ferry Guide 22nd October 1915

BROWN―In loving remembrance of my husband Private William Brown, of the Black Watch, killed in action on 25th September 1915. – Inserted by his wife Mrs E. Brown, 73 Church Street, also his mother, sisters and brothers.

Dundee People’s Journal 29th September 1917