BROWN Frank

  • First Name(s):
    Frank 
  • Surname:
    BROWN
  • Service Number:
    20064
  • Rank:

    Private

  • Conflict:
    WW1
  • Service:
    Army
  • Army Sector:
    Infantry
  • Regiment:
    Worcestershire Regiment
  • Battalion:
    4th Battalion
  • Former Units:
    None
  • Date of Death:
    9th November 1915
  • Age At Death:
  • Place of Death:
    Unknown
  • Place of Burial:
    Cairo War Cemetery, Egypt, Grave D. 187.
  • Place of Birth:
    Bilston, Staffordshire, resident Droitwich, Worcestershire, enlisted Worcester
  • Home Town:
    Unknown
  • Casualty's Relatives:
    Unknown
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BROWN Frank Is Named On These Memorials

Droitwich St Andrew’s Church WW1 Memorial
Droitwich St Augustine’s Church
Droitwich War Memorial

Further Information About BROWN Frank

The marriage of Frank Brown to Bertha Colley is registered in the September Quarter 1911 under the Droitwich Registration District.

The following local newspaper report has been researched by and is courtesy of a relative of Frank Brown:
Droitwich Man’s Death
Mrs Brown, of the Vines Lane, wife of Private Frank Brown, 4th Worcesters, of the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, has this week received news from the War Office that her husband died of fever in Cairo Hospital on 9th November.  Brown before enlisting was employed by the County Council on the roads.  He leaves three children, one an infant but a few months old.  The widow, Mrs Brown, has five brothers in the Army – the sons of Mr William Colley, The Vines.

A photograph of Private F. Brown, son-in-law of Mr W. Colley, Vine’s Lane, Droitwich can be found in Berrow’s Worcester Journal Supplement, Saturday 26th May 1917, available at Worcestershire Archives.

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