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QSA (6) Relief of Kimberley, Paardeberg, Driefontein, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill, Belfast (Lieut. E. S. Broun. York: Rgt.) engraved naming;
KSA (2) (Lieut. E. S. Broun. York. Rgt.) engraved naming.

Together with the related miniature awards.

Ernest Scott Broun was born at Orchard Carluke on 7 December 1879 and was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Yorkshire regiment on 4 February 1899. He served in South Africa during the Boer War, and was present at the operations near Colesberg in January 1900, and in the march along the Modder River, including the Relief of Kimberley, actions at Paardeberg, Kitchener's Kop, Poplar Grove, Driefontein, and occupation of Bloemfontein. He was also with the advance on Dewetsdorp and action at Leukop; in the march to Pretoria and the actions at Brandfort, Vet nad Zand Rivers, Kroonstadt and Johannesburg; and in the advance eastwards, in the actions at Diamond Hill and Belfast. (Queen’s South Africa Medal with 6 clasps; and King’s South Africa Medal with 2 clasps).

Promoted Lieutenant on 29 Deceember 1900, and Captain on 6 April 1906, Broun served as Aide de Camp to Sir L. Probyn, KCMG, Governor of Barbados, from 19 July 1911, before proceeded to France with 2nd Battalion on 5 October 1914, and was killed near Ypres on 30 October 1914. The Bridgetown Paper gave the following obituary: ‘He was a very popular member of society in Barbados, possessing an exceedingly genial disposition and urbanity of manner. His early death is greatly to be deplored, but consolation is to be taken from the fact that he died at the post of honour where a good soldier loves to die.’

For his services during the Great War Broun was posthumously Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazette 22 June 1915). He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium.