Today | News | Books | Recipes Adventure | Science Fiction | Ghost stories | Poetry | Children | History Bookn the head, killing him instantly. I cannot say what was done with his body, but I understand that the company holding the front line brought it in early the following morning. I believe he was buried in rear of our first line trench. This was at Festubert. It is impossible to give map location of the spot referred to." [Illustration: =Arthur K. Brown.=] =BROWN, BERTRAM=, Private, No. 2524, 1/9th Battn., Royal Scots (Highlanders) (T.F.), _s._ of late George Brown, by his wife, Christina Jane Adie (15, Warrender Park Terrace, Edinburgh), dau. of the late William Mitchell, of Leith; _b._ Leith, 27 Sept. 1892; educ. Edinburgh: prior to the outbreak of war was serving as 2nd Engineer on the s.s. Glitra, which was sunk by U-17, being one of the first of our merchant ships to suffer that fate. Brown and his comrades were compelled to row to the Norwegian coast in their boats. A week later (31 Oct.) he enlisted in the "Dandy Ninth," and was shot by a sniper at Ypres, 9 April, 1915, when entering the trenches with supplies; _unm._ =BROWN, CHARLES=, Private, No. 5171, 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards, _s._ of John Brown, of Wookey, Wells, Somerset; _b._ co. Somerset; enlisted 24 Aug. 1903; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from 12 Aug. 1914; killed in action at Rentel, 8 Nov. 1914; _unm._ =BROWN, CHARLES ALFRED=, Trooper, No. 830, Royal Canadian Dragoons, Canadian Expeditionary Force, _s._ of Charles Ambrose Brown, of 93, Harcourt Avenue, Toronto, Canada (who served with the 12th York Rangers in the Fenian raid, 1866); by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of John J. Lunan; _b._ Markham, York, co. Ontario, 1 March, 1883; educ. Toronto; joined the 1st Canadian Garrison Artillery at Halifax, N.S., in Feb. 1900, and after serving two years, came home and enlisted in the 3rd Canadian Mounted Rifles for service in South Africa, being given the rank of Corpl. He afterwards served in the Royal North West Mounted Police, and was one of the body of picked men sent over to attend the Coronation of King George and received the Silver Coronation Medal. On the outbreak of the European War, he re-enlisted 19 Aug. 1914; came over with the first contingent, 1 Oct. 1914; went to France April, 1915, and was killed in action at Messines, 20 Sept. 1915; _unm._ =BROWN, EDWARD=, Private, No. 81105, 8th (formerly 32nd) Battn., Canadian Expeditionary Force, 3rd _s._ of George Edward Brown, of Lloydminster, Saskatchewan, Canada, formerly cashier at the Woolley and North Gawber Collieries, Barnsley, now farming at Lloydminster, by his wife, Louisa, dau. of Richard Horner, of Outwood, New Wakefield; _b._ Darton, near Barnsley, co. York, 5 Aug. 1888; educ. Darton Grammar School and St. Mary's Church School, Barnsley; went to Canada with his family, with the Barr party of Colonists, leaving Liverpool, 30 March, 1903, and reached what is now known as the Lloydminster District in the following May, after trekking about 200 miles from Saskatoon, the nearest railway point at that time. After the outbreak of war he volunteered and enlisted at Lloydminster, 10 Nov. 1914; came over in March, 1915, went to the Front 26-27 April, 1915; was seriously wounded on the night of 20-21 May, 1915, at or near Festubert, and died on the 23rd; _unm._ He was buried in the ground of Hinges Chateau. [Illustration: =Edward Brown.=] =BROWN, FREDERICK GEORGE=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 15571. H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914. =BROWN, FREDERICK JAMES=, Private, R.M.L.I. (Ports.), 7549, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =BROWN, FREDERICK WILLIAM=, Private, No. 10327, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, _s._ of William Brown, of 2, Treadway Road, Hackney Road, N.E.; _b._ co. Middlesex; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action at Cuinchy, 6 Feb. 1915. =BROWN, GEORGE=, Stoker, Petty Officer, 306510, H.M.S. Hawke; lost in action in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; _m._ =BROWN, GEORGE=, Private, No. 7870, 1st Battn. Scots Guards, _s._ of William Brown, of Burnside Cottage, Newmill, Keith; _b._ Keith, co. Banff; enlisted 24 March, 1911, aged 20; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; reported missing, 11 Nov. 1914; _unm._ =BROWN, GEORGE FREDERICK=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 15562, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914. =BROWN, GEORGE SHIPTON=, L.-Corpl., R.M.L.I. (Ports.), 10513, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =BROWN, GEORGE WILLIAM=, Private, No' 8563, 1st Suffolk Regt., 2nd _s._ of Frederick William Brown, of Chaplin's Cottage, Caple St. Mary, near Ipswich, formerly of Gosbeck, Suffolk, Shepherd, by his wife, Mary Ann, dau. of William Dye, of Helmingham; _b._ Stowmarket, Suffolk, 12 Aug. 1893; educ. Ashbocking and Gosbeck schools; joined the Army 18 June, 1912, and was killed in action 7 May, 1915; _unm._ [Illustration: =George William Brown.=] =BROWN, HARRY JAMES=, Seaman, R.N.R., 4010A, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =BROWN, HEDLEY=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 15474, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =BROWN, HENRY AUGUSTUS=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 10013), 206254, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =BROWN, HERBERT HENRY=, Bugler, R.M.A., 11965, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =HURST-BROWN, DUDLEY=, 2nd Lieut., R.F.A., yst. _s._ of W. Hurst-Brown, of Hurstbourne, 62, Oxford Gardens, W.; _b._ 8 June, 1897; educ. at Cardwallis, Maidenhead, and Winchester, where he was in the O.T.C. It had been intended that he should proceed to Oxford in the autumn, but war breaking out in the interval, he offered his services and received his commission in the Special Reserve on 11 Aug. 1914. He was at the Front five months, during which time he went through some of the most severe fighting, but escaped injury until receiving his fatal wounds in action in Flanders, 15 June, 1915. He died the same day; _unm._ In a letter received the day before his death he stated how glad he was he went to the Front, although the fighting was becoming something frightful, and that he saw but little chance as a junior officer of ever getting safely home again, and concluded the letter with the famous Latin epitaph of Horace, "Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori." =BROWN, JAMES=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 8655), S.S. 105081, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =BROWN, JAMES=, Stoker, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =BROWN, JAMES CARTMELL DENNISON=, 2nd Lieut., 5th Battn. Durham L.I. (T.F.), yr. _s._ of Sir Frank Brown, of Norton Priory, Stockton-on-Tees, D.L., by his wife, Charlotte, dau. of John Hedley, of South Hetton, co. Durham; _b._ Stockton-on-Tees, 2 Sept. 1893; educ. Rugby (19 |