BORN GOOLE 1888. KNOWN AS ‘FIELD’ BROWN. RESIDENT IN NEWINGTON WHEN WAR BEGAN. HE JOINED THE 12TH HULL PALS. HIS MOTHER MRS E. J BROWN LIVED AT 47 PORTLAND STREET, HULL. HIS FATHER, EDWARD BROWN, WAS LOST AT SEA IN THE MEDITERRANEAN, 1N JUNE 1916, SUNK BY AN ENEMY SUBMARINE. A FORMER SEAMAN. DESCRIBED AS 5 FOOT, 4 INCHES TALL, 127 LBS WEIGHT, 35-37 INCH CHEST, FRESH COMPLEXION, BLUE EYES, BROWN HAIR, GOOD VISION, UNION JACK TATOO, CHURCH OF ENGLAND RELEIGION. HE ENLISTED AT HULL, ON 14/09/1914. HE TRAINED AT DALTON HOLME, RIPON AND SALISBURY AND MARRIED WHILE TRAINING IN EARLY 1915. HIS WIFE LIVED AT 115 LONDESBROUGH STREET, HULL. SERVED WITH THE 12TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT (3RD HULL PALS) IN EGYPT AND FRANCE. SURVIVED THE SOMME ATTACK .DIED AT OPPY WOOD ON 03/05/1917, AGED 29. COMMEMORATED ON THE ARRAS MEMORIAL. HE HAD SERVED IN THE ARMY FOR 2 YEARS AND 232 DAYS. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE AND WEEKLY WAR PENSION OF 13 SHILLING AND NINE PENCE, WERE LEFT TO HIS WIDOW, IRENE AT THIS ARMY RECORDS ADDRESS.. SHE RE-MARRIED AT ST JUDES CHURCH, HULL, ON 10/07/1918.
Brown, Frederick (Field)
First name:
FREDERICK (FIELD)
Military Number:
12/57
Rank:
Private
Date Died
03/05/1917
Place died:
Arras Memorial, Pas de Calais, France
Age:
29