Robert Brown
Rank: Private
Service No: 33723
Place of Birth: Rutherglen
Date of Death: 05/05/1918
Theatre of Death: F&F
Age: 22
Regiment/Service: Royal Warwickshire Regiment (14th Bn.)
Cemetery: Aire Communal Cemetery
Additional information: Son of Robert and Margaret Brown of Rutherglen.
Rutherglen Lore information: Son of Mr. and Mrs. R Brown, 20 Farie Street, Rutherglen.
Soldier’s Effects information: Father Robert Brown, sisters – Lizzie, Helen and Marion and brother William. Widow Margaret Brown.
1901 census information:
Address: 17 Farie Street, Rutherglen.
Father: Robert (41) engineman, born about 1860 in Rutherglen.
Mother: Maggie (37) born about 1864 in Rutherglen.
Sister: Maggie H (16) power loom weaver, born about 1885 in Rutherglen.
Sister: Lizzie (13) born about 1888 in Rutherglen.
Sister: Nellie (11) born about 1890 in Rutherglen.
Brother: James (7) born about 1894 in Rutherglen.
Self: Robert (5) born about 1896 in Rutherglen.
Brother: Thomas (2) born about 1899 in Rutherglen.
Brother: William (1) born about 1900 in Rutherglen.
1911 census information:
The family are living in Rutherglen. The family comprises Robert 51, Maggie 47, Lizzie 23, Nellie 21, James 17, Robert 15, Thomas 12, William 11 and Marion 8.
Also commemorated on the memorial in Rutherglen Old Parish Church.