BROWN, HARRY. Company Serjeant Major. 240014. “D” Company 1st/5th Territorial Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment. Military Cross.
Entitled to the British War and Victory Medals.
Born in Bilsby, he enlisted at Alford.
The 1891 census records Harry aged 11, sister Kate, and brother George, living with their parents Eliza and Isaac Brown at Hall Cottages, Brackenborough, Louth.
The 1901 records Harry, aged 21, a confectioner, sister Kate, and brother George, living with their parents Eliza and Isaac Brown, a male boarder was also living with the family.
The 1911 records Harry aged 31, married to Margaret, with a daughter Phyliss and son William Hindson, sister Kate and brother George were also living with them.
Harry Brown died of wounds on July 2nd. 1917, (6th. December 1917, on the Alford Rolls) aged 37, possibly from wounds received on the 1st. July when the Battalion attacked Cite de Moulin, south west of Lens; he is buried in Noeux-les- Mines Communal Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France. Plot 11, Row D, Grave 15.
He was the son of Eliza and Isaac Brown of Alford, and the husband of Margaret H. Brown of West Street, Alford, who received his soldiers’ effects, war gratuity and pension.
Remembered with honour on the Alford War Memorial in the grounds of St Wilfrid’s Church and on the Memorial Plaque to the outside of the former Methodist Chapel.
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