Brown, CA

Captain Clive Andrews Brown

Clive was born in Lanark, Scotland, on June 26^th 1890, the son of George Brown, who was originally from Hull, but at that point working in Scotland, and his wife Alice. By the time Clive started at Dulwich the family had moved to London, and were at one point living on Rosendale Road. After leaving the College he went on to study engineering at London University, first at King’s College and then at University College; during his time at University he signed up as a member of the O.T.C., and in 1912 he signed up as a reservist with the London Scottish Battalion.

His unit was mobilised upon the commencement of hostilities in the summer of 1914, and for the next year Clive was mostly in training before, in September of 1915, gaining his commission – as a 2^nd Lieutenant in the Royal Engineers. For medical reasons he was prevented from ever being able to serve on the Western Front, instead taking various positions in England, largely involved with logistics and the supply chain. In the summer of 1916 he was promoted to Lieutenant, and a year later was made a Captain, at the same being made adjutant of a supply depot at Canterbury. He was still holding this position in October of 1918 when he was taken seriously ill with influenza, ultimately passing away in Shorncliffe Military Hospital on 7^th November; six weeks after his brother Keith, a fellow OA, had fallen. He was survived by his widow Winifred and daughter Maureen.