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World War One / Sgt Arthur Edward Brown
« on: Thursday 06 October 11 14:07 BST (UK) »
I wonder if anybody could please shed any light on this recent discovery, my late Grandfather Arthur Edward Brown MM 1st/8th Cameronian Scottish Rifles, Service numbers: 1359, 291346. I have managed to obtain two of his medals from my cousin except that now on closer inspection I have found what appears to be a third service number 7284, do I have two different peoples medals or is this his ?
The inscriptions on the two medals read as follows:
1914 star 7284 Pte A. Brown 1/Sco: Rif.
MM 291346 Sjt A. E. Brown 8/Sco.Rif.
I am also looking for any other relevant information on him as at present he is proving to be rather elusive, he is supposed to have come from Portsmouth but when I contacted the register office they could not find any trace for him, on his death certificate it said he was 35 so he should of been born around 1882-1883. I do know that he died on the 17th August 1918 in France, I can not find any marriage between him and my nan Mary Ann Sarha Lake, although I do know that she had got married in 1911 in Croydon to Frederick George Foster.
The inscriptions on the two medals read as follows:
1914 star 7284 Pte A. Brown 1/Sco: Rif.
MM 291346 Sjt A. E. Brown 8/Sco.Rif.
I am also looking for any other relevant information on him as at present he is proving to be rather elusive, he is supposed to have come from Portsmouth but when I contacted the register office they could not find any trace for him, on his death certificate it said he was 35 so he should of been born around 1882-1883. I do know that he died on the 17th August 1918 in France, I can not find any marriage between him and my nan Mary Ann Sarha Lake, although I do know that she had got married in 1911 in Croydon to Frederick George Foster.