Thomas Morrison Brown was born in Tarbolton in 1881 and married Margaret Robertson McTurk in Cumnock in 1903.
His service record survives.
He enlisted in the ASC on 01 May 1917. He was 36 years and 8 days old and a motor driver of 92 Townhead St.
He was a Lance Corporal with the 39th motor ambulance convoy in Mesopotamia when his son David died in July1918 of appendicitis and peritonits aged 12. David Brown the boy's grandfather of Greenholm, Cumnock registered the death. Tragedy struck a second time when his daughter Margaret died in the influenza epidemic of 1918 aged 10 at 92 Townhead St. Her uncle Robert McTurk of 424 Brick Row, Lugar registered the death this time.
He suffered from malaria when he was demobbed 13 Aug 1919
Here's the family on Cumnock Connections tree
Remembering WW1 soldiers with a connection to Cumnock in Ayrshire, Scotland, including those who survived and others not mentioned on the War Memorial. Researched by Cumnock History Group.
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