27 Battalion, Manchester Regiment
Lt Brown served with A Company. He was killed in action aged 29 on 10 July 1916 during the Battle of the Somme. He is buried at Ovillers Military Cemetery.
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Gary Donaldson 10 months ago | reply
From www.stockwellwarmemorial.co.uk/st-marks-war-memorial-kenn... giving details of men comemorated on the Stockwell War Memorial, St Mark's, Kennington:
Son of Arthur Mortimer and Susanah Kate Brown of 2 Wilkinson Street, South Lambeth, London. Remembered at Ovillers Military Cemetery, Somme, France
Information from the 1911 census
In 1911 Arthur Brown was a 23-year-old articled clerk living at 2 Wilkinson Street with his parents, Arthur Mortimer Brown, 57, a commercial clerk born in Middlesex, and Susannah Kate Brown, 56, also born in Middlesex. Arthur's sister, Julia Kate Brown, 28, born in South Lambeth, and uncle, Henry Horace Brown, 66, a "manufacturer's artificial florist," lived with the family, as did Florence Mary Ann Smith, 52, a single domestic servant from Peckham.
(Announcement of promotion to temporary Second Lieutenant from London Gazette, 27 October 1915).//
Varapanyo 10 months ago | reply
A touching photo. RIP, Lieutenant Brown!