Baldwin & Sons
Auction 101 28 September 2016
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ORDERS, DECORATIONS AND MILITARY MEDALS, Miscellaneous, A Great War Memorial Plaque, awarded to (Robert Phorson Brown), in contemporary circular turned wooden frame. Extremely fine.
7678 Private Robert Polson Brown (note spelling of middle name, shown as Polson on CWGC but his entry in Soldiers Died in the Great War shows Phorsson, again a different spelling from Plaque), the son of Mr and Mrs George Brown of 15 Wardlaw Place, Edinburgh, was killed in action near Ypres on 19 May 1915 whilst serving with the 14th Field Ambulance Royal Army Medical Corps aged 20; his body was located by the War Graves Registration Unit on 25 July 1919 being found with that of Private R.F. Nunn R.A.M.C., both of the 14th Field Ambulance and both being killed on the same day. They are now both buried in Perth Cemetery (China Wall), near Ypres, Belgium they rest in adjacent graves.
Estimate: £70-90
7678 Private Robert Polson Brown (note spelling of middle name, shown as Polson on CWGC but his entry in Soldiers Died in the Great War shows Phorsson, again a different spelling from Plaque), the son of Mr and Mrs George Brown of 15 Wardlaw Place, Edinburgh, was killed in action near Ypres on 19 May 1915 whilst serving with the 14th Field Ambulance Royal Army Medical Corps aged 20; his body was located by the War Graves Registration Unit on 25 July 1919 being found with that of Private R.F. Nunn R.A.M.C., both of the 14th Field Ambulance and both being killed on the same day. They are now both buried in Perth Cemetery (China Wall), near Ypres, Belgium they rest in adjacent graves.
Estimate: £70-90