Brown, AHM

(1887 - 1916)

Key Facts

DATE OF BIRTH:

29th November 1887

YEARS ATTENDED THE COLLEGE:

1902 - 1906

HOME ADDRESS WHEN AT THE COLLEGE:

2 Wilkinson Street, Albert Square, SW8

REGIMENT

27th Battalion, Manchester Regiment

FINAL RANK:

2nd Lieutenant

DATE OF DEATH:

9th July 1916

AGE AT DEATH:

28

WHERE HE DIED (or was wounded)

Trones Wood

LOCATION OF GRAVE OR MEMORIAL:

Ovillers Military Cemetery. XVII O 9

2nd Lieutenant Arthur Horace Mortimer Brown

Born 29^th November 1887, Arthur was the only son of Arthur Brown, Sr., a commercial clerk in the City, and his wife Susannah. He came to the College having previously been educated at the Prep, and after he had left Dulwich went on to train as an accountant, receiving his full qualification as a Chartered Accountant in early 1913.

He joined the Inns of Court O.T.C. upon the outbreak of war and subsequently, in October 1915, gained his commission as a 2^nd Lieutenant in the 27^th Battalion of the Manchester Regiment. Horace was subsequently temporarily attached to the both the 24^th and 17^th Battalions, before being sent to France during the early part of 1916. He was killed in action on July 9^th, at Trones Wood on the Somme, having originally been declared missing.