4488, Sergeant Brian Morrison HEAD
Aged 26
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Brian Morrison HEAD was born in 1874 (East Grinstead Q1-1874 2B:140), baptised on 4h April 1874, 3rd son of Dr Robert Turner and Emma Isabella HEAD (née MORRISON).
1881...Aged 7, he was at the Surgery and Registrar of Births & Deaths, Balsham, with his father Robert HEAD [45] Physician and Surgeon born East Grinstead; his mother Emma Isabella [41] born Reigate; brothers Alston George [11], Wilfred Robert [5], Bernard Philip [3] and Hugh Allan [1] born Balsham; sisters Kathleen Mary [8] and Dorothy Isabel [2]. All the children except Hugh were born in East Grinstead 1891...Aged 17, he was at the Registrar's , High Street,Balsham with his parents, sister Kathleen and brother Raymond Evelyn [7] born Balsham. His brother Raymond Evelyn HEAD, died of his wounds in 1918, just after the end of that war, as Captain in the King's Liverpool Regiment. - see here |
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Kitchener's Horse was raised in Cape Town on 20-1-1900 and disbanded in Cape Town on 31-12-1901. Originally 600 strong, but by March 1900 they were 428 strong.
Brian was killed at Nooitgedacht. His Queen's South Africa medal carries the clasps for Johannesburg, Diamond Hill, Witteborgen and South Africa 1901
There was no Commonwealth War Grave Commission or medal index card in those days,none of the records that are accessible now for the Great War. He is commemorated also on the Cambridge Boer War Memorial Plaque at Great St Mary's Church, facing the Market Square |
