William Augustus Brown, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, service number S/11927

[Saline]

Hi, interested to see you are/were looking for the soldier who died on 23 Feb 1917. I am trying to find out about William Augustus Brown, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, service number S/11927. He was killed in action 9 February 1917, remembered at Peronne Cemetery, Somme . Unfortunately I can't find the war diaries for this period - there seems to be nothing for 1916 and 1917! He married in Alloa but his wife's address on his Commonwealth War Graves Commission form states Berrydyke Farm, Braco, Perthshire. 

Any idea how to access the war diary?

Thanks for reading.

[MaxD]

Here at National Archives:

 

https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C7353839

Ancestry here

 

https://www.ancestry.co.uk/interactive/60779/43849_2426_0-00000?backurl=&ssrc=&backlabel=Return   starts at image 482.

 

Max

Note there is a concentration sheet for him, initially buried not far away.

Edited 4 August , 2019 by MaxD
Conc sheet

[Saline]

Thank you, that is really helpful and so speedy. My thanks again, Tina

[Mark1959]

CWGC says he was 2 A & SH so try

https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C7353839

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Posts merged from another topic.
 

Craig

[MaxD]

If it is of interest, the place Augustus Brown was initially buried was very near to where the battalion were deployed in trenches near Clery sur Somme.  Referring to the map and image at:

https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/side-by-side/#zoom=13&lat=49.9675&lon=2.8937&layers=101465284&right=BingHyb

 

The map reference for the initial burial place is next to the little wood, Clery Copse which is in square I 1, top left, the little copse is still there today.  The cemetery is on the north of Peronne in square I 21.

The cemetery details refer to men being concentrated from:

:MADAME MILITARY CEMETERY, Clery-sur-Somme (the origin of this name is uncertain, but the Germans had a "Maidan Trench" opposite), near the road to Bouchavesnes, where 56 soldiers from the United Kingdom (mainly 33rd Division) were buried in January-March 1917 (Three of these were moved to Serre Road Cemetery No.2, Beaumont-Hamel, and 53 to Peronne).

Argylls were in 33rd Division.

 

Max