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George Robert Brown

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George's Pension Record image courtesy of WFA

Military Information

  • Date of enlistment:
  • Place of enlistment:
  • Service no: 8733
  • Rank: Corporal
  • Service Occupation:
  • Awards:
  • Regiment/Service: Leinster Regiment
  • Unit/Ship: 1st Battalion
  • Place of Death: 16 Crescent Lane, Dundee
  • Age at Death: 28
  • Date of Death: 03.06.1918
  • Burial Country: Scotland
  • Cemetery: Dundee Eastern Necropolis
  • Grave/Mem Ref no: LL.5.555.

Personal Information

  • Date of Birth:
  • Place of Birth:
  • Address: 16 Crescent Lane, Dundee
  • Occupation:
  • Mother:

    Matilda Brown, 11 Glebe St, Dundee

  • Father:

    Colin Brown, 11 Glebe St, Dundee

  • Siblings:

    Hamilton

  • Spouse:

    Catherine Parsons (formally Brown) 2, “B” Square, Stanhope Lines, Aldershot

  • Children:

More about George Robert Brown

George died of wounds (Gas). He was the brother of Pte Hamilton Key Brown, 25741, Machine Gun Corps, who died 09.07.1918

George Robert Brown   8733   Leinster Regiment

BROWN―Died of wounds at 16 Crescent Lane, on 3rd June 1918, Corporal George Brown, aged 28 years. -Inserted by his father, mother, sisters and brothers.

Dundee People’s Journal 15th June 1918

Additional information kindly supplied by Michael Caldwell

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