Robert Hood Brechin

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Rank	Second Lieutenant
Medals	British War Medal, Victory Medal
Regiment	Seaforth Highlanders 5th (Sutherland and Caithness) Battalion, attached 1st Battalion Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
Military Service	Sergeant in the High School OTC. Enlisted as a private (220914) in the Glasgow Highlanders (9th Battn Highland Light Infantry) in September 1914. One would have presumed Brechin served in France with the HLI but his Medal Roll Index Card does not record any service at the front until after he received his commission. Nor does it show him as entitled to the 1914-15 Star which one might have expected if he had served in France. Commissioned into the 5th Seaforth Highlanders on 7th December 1915. Sent for further training to Cairo in May 1916 and attached to the 1st Battn Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, 81st Infantry Brigade, 27th Division stationed on the Salonika front in August 1916. On the 30th September the 81st Infantry Brigade assaulted and captured the Karajakois (the fortified villages of Karajakoi Bala and Karajakoi Zir, now jointly known as Monokklisia) and RH Brechin was killed.
Born	1895, Glasgow
Death	30th September 1916
Circumstances of Death	Killed in Action. Shot through the head while leading his platoon.
Age	21
Burial	Struma Military Cemetery, Greece, V. A. 5
CWGC Information	Son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Brechin, of Glasgow.
Parents	Robert H Brechin (1848-1918) & Jane I Armstrong (1861-1917), married 1887 Lewes, Sussex
Father's Occupation	Flesher. Partner in Brechin Brothers.
Siblings	Jane I (1887-1944), Agnes H (1889-1889), Ann A (1890-1930), Mary H (c1894-), Dorothy K A (1898-1901), James (1900-1900), William (c1902-)
Spouse	Unmarried
Education	Whitehill School, Glasgow High School of Glasgow University of Glasgow 1912-1914.
Occupation	Student
1901 Census	22 Circus Drive, Dennistoun, Glasgow
1911 Census	42 Sherbrooke Avenue, Pollokshields, Glasgow
Home Address	42 Sherbrooke Avenue, Pollokshields, Glasgow
Glasgow Necropolis	Compartment Upsilon Lair 185
Other Memorials	Scottish National War Memorial Pollokshields Parish Church War Memorial and Book of Remembrance Whitehill Secondary School High School of Glasgow War Memorial
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Robert Hood Brechin Monument - Upsilon

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Compiled by Morag Fyfe, Historical and Genealogical Researcher for The Friends of Glasgow Necropolis.

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Photographers: Ruth Johnston, Scott Kerr, David Hanlon, John Gair