A fine day. In the morning it was absolutely calm : not a leaf stirring and it was the same at night. There had evidently been a good deal of rain. I made 26 calls including Shawpark1 + Lindean Station.2 There were 5 new cases. I was called down to Brownlee, Buccleuch Road after dinner to see a boy with a big rake hook in his hand.3 I had to give Chlor[oform]. Then I had to go to Viewfield to see Jas. Linton4 + there was a crowd at Consultation hour.
1 Dr Muir had been attending Shawpark, Selkirk from time to time to see John Dun Boylan (1850-1924), a civil engineer, who had a heart attack on 11 March 1923.
2 Dr Muir had attended Lindean Station two days earlier to see a child of Hugh Waddell Swan, railway passenger guard, and Isabella Swan née Scott, see Dr Muir’s diary entry for 23 June 1923.
3 Presumably one of the children of James Brownlee and Dora Matilda Brownlee née Thomson (1882-1963) who had married, 1911, at Selkirk and lived at 52 Buccleuch Road, Selkirk. The children were Robert Brownlee (1913-1986), William N Thomson Brownlee (1917-), and twins Walter Renwick Brownlee (1919-1943) and Ross Brown Thomson Brownlee (1919-2007).
Walter Brownlee, one of the twins, Service No. 3191704, a Lance Corporal serving with the 5th Battalion the Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders, died 6 April 1943, aged 24, presumably during the fighting as the Axis forces withdrew westwards through Libya and Tunisia “pursued by the Allied Eighth Army” [CWGC], and is buried at Sfax War Cemetery, Tunisia, grave reference II. A. 14. His personal inscription reads “At The Rising And The Going Down Of The Sun We Will Remember” [https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2182544/walter-renwick-brownlee/].
4 James Linton is as yet unidentified.
[Source: Scottish Borders Archives & Local History Service SBA/657/26, Dr J S Muir of Selkirk, medical practitioner, journal for 1923]
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