Second Lieutenant Frederick William Brown

Family details:
Next of Kin from MIC. Mr F Brown esq. (father), North House, North Road, St Helens. Father Fred Brown is legatee.

Census details:
1901 - 4 years old Frederick William is living at 2, North Road, St Helens with his parents Fred (29), Alice M (32) and two siblings: Sydney (3), Kate (1). Also at the address is servant Maud Hewitt (19). 1911 - Sees 14 years old schoolboy Frederick William living at Park Mount, Cowley Hill Lane, St Helens with his parents Fred (39), Alice Maud (42) and three siblings: Sydney (13), Kate (11), Olive Marie (5). Also at the address are two servants: Agnes Grisedale (20) and Grace Weatherstone (17).

Notes:
[url=lmem.php?lmem=21]Remembered On St Marks War Memorial, North Road.[/url] Also known as 'Eric' CWGC have his listed as Eric William Brown.

The Cowley Schools Roll Of Honour states as follows:- 2/Lieut Frederick William (Eric) Brown 1/5th Batt South Lancs Regt (Territorials) Commission dated October 1914. Killed at the Second Battle Of Ypres about the 4th of May 1915. He was a Grenade or Bomb officer and in the words of his CO "The Germans were making use of an old communicating trench and had to prevent their further progress. Two visits were made the first being sucessful, but the Germans being re-inforced, came again a second time and it was this incident which led to Eric's death, being shot by a rifle bullet in the head over the right eye. However the Germans were stopped". Age when killed 18 and a half, height 6ft and was finely built. Eric has no known grave being listed on panel 37 of the Menin Gate Memorial. Difficulty arose in identifying this casualty due to him being called "Eric" when his actual Christian names are Frederick William. [pic]imgs/WW1_misc/FredWBrown.jpg[/pic][caption]Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects, 1901-1929[/caption] [pic]news/BrownEric_Lt_SLR.jpg[/pic][pic]news/BrownEric_Lt_SLR2.jpg[/pic][pic]news/BrownEric_Lt_SLR3.jpg[/pic][caption]The St Helens Reporter - Courtesy Ste M[/caption] [pic]imgs/WW1_people/Brown_E_Lt_2.jpg[/pic][caption]The St Helens Newspaper & Advertiser - Courtesy Ste M[/caption] [center][pic2]imgs/S1PWHYAOTV/Echo19150502_zps2b8611ac.png[/pic2][/center][caption]Liverpool Echo 02/05/1915.[/caption] [pic]imgs/WW1_misc/LtFWBrownSLR.jpg[/pic][caption]The St Helens Reporter - Courtesy Ste M[/caption] [pic]imgs/WW1_misc/LtFWBrownSLR2.jpg[/pic][caption]The St Helens Reporter - Courtesy Ste M[/caption] [pic]imgs/WW1_memorials/2ndLtFWBrownSLR.jpg[/pic][caption]A memorial for 2nd Lt Frederick W Brown at St Marks Church, North Road - Courtesy Ste M[/caption] [pic]imgs/sppics/EW_Brown_SLR.jpg[/pic][caption]The inscription for 2/Lieut Frederick William (Eric) Brown on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Photo courtesy of Ste M.)[/caption]