"My brother, John Hardie Brown, was at Caen with the KOSB's. He was in a trench when a shell burst in front of the trench and buried him and his mates. Johns rifle was poking up through the earth, he moved it around and it was spotted and he was rescued, his ear drums were blown out. His mates did not make it." "Further to the story, my brother was in the 1st Battalion of the KOSB's and the bloke in the middle of the photo with hands in pockets looks like him (The photo in Caen near the Poissonerrie - below). Will never know for sure. John went on to fight across the Rhine. At the end of European war he was sent to Egypt with the Battalion for embarkation to the far east to fight the Japs, lucky enough the war ended before they were embarked." George Brown (From Facebook).

John was discharged from the Army in October 1946 and was living in Edinburgh at that time.

*Private Brown was also wounded on the 24th March 1945.

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