Andrew Brand

[BereniceUK]

He's buried at Fleetwood Cemetery and his name is inscribed on the town's memorial. The Congregational Church's memorial plaque has him as "Private Andrew Brand, Royal Engineers". He doesn't seem to be in the CWGC database.

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[roughdiamond]

Only 2 x Andrew Brand RE with MIC's http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/SearchUI/s/res?_fn=andrew&_ln=Brand&_no=&_crp=Royal+Engineers&_ttl=&_ser=WO+372&_dt=M&_col=online&image1.x=0&image1.y=0 What's his date of death?

Sam

[CROONAERT]

What's his date of death?

It says 14th August 1916 on his headstone in the photo above!

[roughdiamond]

At work and my PC won't show some photo's posted on the site, doesn't even give me an indication a photo is there, it depends on what's been used to upload it, I don't even know what the headstone looks like.

Sam

[stevem49]

If he died of a war related illness, he may already be on the IFCP list. If he isn't then a death certificate will be needed to prove cause of death.

PM Terry Denham http://www.infromthecold.org/index.asp

Steve M

[BereniceUK]

Thanks, Steve, I've sent IFCP the info and a link to this thread.

[Sepoy]

Andrew Brand served as 42385 Pioneer A Brand, 81st Field Company RE. He was later remustered as a Sapper in February, 1916.

Andrew was discharged being no longer physically fit for service on 5th July, 1916. It appears that this was due to diabetes caused by active service and shock, near Amiens on 4th June, 1916.

He had been previously wounded in the scalp on 10th March, 1916.

His pension papers can be found here
http://interactive.ancestry.co.uk/1114/MIUK1914A_083455-00304/107203?backurl=http%3a%2f%2fsearch.ancestry.co.uk%2fcgi-bin%2fsse.dll%3fdb%3dBritishArmy%26h%3d107203%26indiv%3dtry%26o_vc%3dRecord%253aOtherRecord%26rhSource%3d2352&ssrc=&backlabel=ReturnRecord#?imageId=MIUK1914A_083455-00308

He was awarded a British War Medal and Victory Medal.

Hope this helps

Sepoy

[BereniceUK]

Thank you, Sepoy. That poor young man must have had a terrible last couple of months of life, like so many others.

[RaySearching]

Nice find Berenice

Cross your fingers, He could be another soldier in from the cold

Another 19 year old casualty of the Great War who's service deserves to be recognised

regards Ray

[PaulC78]

BRAND (or BLAND on some of his records) remains uncommemorated, though he looks like a good case. Cause of death was apparently diabetes:

From his service record:

As noted above, he is buried at Fleetwood Borough Cemetery: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/167811568/andrew-leakie-brand#add-to-vc

[PaulC78]

Cause of death confirmed by DC, non-com case submitted by IFCP.

Edited 11 January by PaulC78