BROWN Thomas Frederick

Thomas Frederick BROWN

Holder of the Military Medal M.M.

Service Number: 36054

Lance Corporal, 210th Field Coy Royal Engineers

Died of Wounds, 28th June 1918, France

LONGUENESSE SOUVENIR CEMETERY, St Omer, Near Calais

Born 1880 in Wauphil, Wigtownshire, Scotland.

Enlisted 21st April 1915 at Swansea.

He left Mrs Mary Elizabeth D. Brown (nee Latimer) of Westbourne Place Mumbles who he married in 1911 in Gower. In 1912, Thomas Frederick the eldest of four children, was born in Swansea.

South Wales Daily Post, 26 April 1918

Corporal Tom Brown, has been awarded the M.M. and recommended for the D.C.M. He was the under-manager of the ‘figure eight’ and has been in France for nearly two years. Some 4 months ago he was gassed.

Thomas Frederick BROWN

Military Medal


Mumbles Coporal Dies of Wounds

Mrs. Brown . . .


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Peter Dover-Wade at Longuenesse Souvenir Cemetery

Longuenesse Souvenir Cemetery

Mrs Ewing, daughter

His Daughter, Mrs Ewing of Mumbles, pictured at the Commemoration Display at Newton Village Hall in November 2014.

She celebrated her 100 th Birthday in July 2015.

A remarkable lady, who spent her actual birthday on a Caribbean Cruise.

Medal Roll record for Cpl. BROWN Thomas, R.E. No. 36054