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31/12/1887 - 09/04/1916

Place of birth: Bromley, Kent
Last known address in Bromley: 3 Oaklands Road

Military information

Regiment/Service: East Lancashire Regiment
Battalion/Ship: "C" Coy 3rd Bn
Rank: Second Lieutenant
Number: Unknown

Family information

Parents: William Charles & Catherine Cecilia Ellen Brown (nee Scudamore)
Parents' occupation: Wholesale stationer
Siblings: William Anthony Scudamore, Austen Charles, Violet Catherine
Relatives on War Memorial: BROWN, A.W.S.

Census information

1891
Address: "Penchirche" Oaklands Rd
1901
Address: Steete Court School, Westgate on Sea
1911
Address: "Penchirche" Oaklands Rd
Occupation: Chartered accountant

Extra details

Harold was the youngest of William and Catherine Brown's four children. He was baptised on 2nd January 1888 at St Peter & St Paul's Church. Harold was a pupil at W H Bond's School, Streete Court, Westgate, then at Uppingham from 1901 to 1906 where he was in Highfield House. He was admitted to Gonville and Caius College in 1906 and graduated BA in 1909 having taken examinations in the Historical Tripos and the Law Tripos. Uppingham's school records state that Harold qualified as a Chartered Accountant. When at home he was a member of the Parish Church choir.

Harold went to Durban in 1913 to visit his brother Anthony. In 1914 at the start of the war, Harold became a trooper in the Natal Light Horse and he served as a trooper during the rebellion in South Africa. The regiment was formed in August 1914 when the recruiting offices in Pietermaritzburg obtained a full roster of six hundred men in ten days. When the regiment was disbanded he returned to England on 17th March 1915 aboard the Union Castle "Norman". He was gazette, on 29th April, 2nd Lieutenant in the East Lancashire Regiment.

The 6th (Service) Battalion, East Lancashire Regiment had sailed from Avonmouth on 16th June 1915, landing in Gallipoli on 7th July. Harold joined them in October at Suvla Bay from where they were evacuated on the 19th/20th of December 1915. After a week's rest they moved to the Helles bridgehead. They were in action during the last Turkish attacks at Helles and were evacuated again on the 8th/9th January 1916.

The Division concentrated at Port Said and on the 12th February 1916, moved to Mesopotamia and joined the Kut-al-Amara relief force. Harold was last sighted on the morning of the day he died, the 9th April 1916, near Sanna-i-Yat, close to the Turkish trenches.

Harold's brother Anthony also died.

Thank you to Uppinham School and Gonville and Caius College Cambridge for their assistance.