This is F Company of the Scottish 6th Rifles taken in Falkirk in October 1914. One of four Territorial Battalions of the Regiment, the 6th Scottish Rifles covered Lanarkshire and had its headquarters in Hamilton. The officer seated in the centre with a mousache is James Brown the School Teacher from Blantyre, killed in action […]
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Captain James Brown
James Brown, was the third headmaster at Auchinraith Primary School at the start of the 20th Century. A remarkable man, whose tale needs told here, as a mark of respect for what he did for us. James Brown came to Blantyre in 1900 from a town near Campbeltown. Unmarried, he lived with his sister at […]