1918-2008: Ninety Years of Remembrance

Soldier Record

George Brown

Contributed by: Peter Grant, on 2008-11-12

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Rank
First Name George
Surname Brown
Year of Birth 1891
Year of Death 1916
Regiment Royal Fusiliers
Place of Wartime Residence Edinburgh, Edinburgh

George's Story

Private George Brown B Company 26th Battn Royal Fusiliers. Killed in action 15/18th Sept 1916.

My grandbother's brothers were both killed in the great war. It was because of this that she insisted that my father train as a vet so that he would not get called up in subsequent wars.

Younger brother James also KIA May 1918.

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