That the Parliament welcomes the news that the body of a young Stirling-born soldier, believed to have fallen in battle during the First World War, has finally been laid to rest with full military honours, more than a century after his death; understands that Lance Serjeant Robert Brand, of the 9th (Glasgow Highland) Battalion, Highland Light Infantry, was buried at the Commonwealth War Graves Commission’s (CWGC) Messines Ridge Cemetery in Belgium on 25 October 2023, alongside two unknown soldiers from the same regiment; notes that Lance Serjeant Brand was just 24 when it is believed that he was killed during the Battle of the Lys, also known as the Fourth Battle of Ypres, which was fought between 7 to 29 April 1918; understands that the remains of all three soldiers were recovered by archaeologists working in Neuve Eglise as part of a project to extend a potato farm; believes that artefacts found nearby identified them as soldiers of the 9th (Glasgow Highland) Battalion, Highland Light Infantry, and other finds indicated that they had died after August 1916; understands that this information was used in combination with battalion war diaries and other records to narrow their dates of death to a period between 13 and 15 April 1918, during the Battle of the Lys; further understands that a shortlist of potential candidates was drawn up using the finds, anthropological information and documentary evidence, and then efforts were made to trace the descendants of eight of the regiment’s men, who were listed as missing and who matched all the available evidence, and that Lance Serjeant Brand was positively identified through the DNA testing of his descendants; notes that, born in Stirling to William Mcphail Brand and Christina Johnston Arthur on 13 September 1893, Robert Brand was the eldest of 12 children and first went to France with the Army in November 1914; believes that, in 1916, he was admitted to hospital with a gunshot wound to the neck, and that, following this, he was entitled to wear a wound stripe on his uniform, which, it understands, was one of the critical artefacts in helping to identify him as one of the three men found in Neuve Eglise; notes that the service for Lance Serjeant Brand was organised by the UK Ministry of Defence’s Joint Casualty and Compassionate Centre (JCCC), also known as the "MOD War Detectives" and was supported by members of the 2nd Battalion, The Royal Regiment of Scotland, who provided the bearer party, piper and bugler; understands that these graves of Lance Serjeant Brand, and the two unknown soldiers, will be cared for in perpetuity by the CWGC, and commends everyone involved for what it sees as their truly astonishing work to have these soldiers’ ultimate sacrifice recognised and acknowledged in this way.