Percy John Brown
Surname: Brown
Other names: Percy John
Locations in this story: Sturminster Newton, DorsetSt. Marys Church, Compton Abbas, Shaftesbury, DorsetLydlinch, Sturminster Newton, DorsetAldershot, HampshirePrystock Far, Twyford, Shaftesbury, DorsetStock Gayland, Dorset
Story: Percy John Brown was born on 25th April, 1897 in Lydlinch, Sturminster, Dorset, and baptised at Stock Gayland Church, Dorset, on 6th June 1897. He was the son of George Brown, a cowman, and Arabella Ann Brown (née Roberts). At the time of the 1911 Census he was single, a scholar and living at Lydlinch, Sturminster Newton.
He enlisted On 11th December 1915 at Sturminster Newton but was not embodied until 22 Apr 1916 as a Private and joined 'B' Squadron of 19th Royal Hussars (Queen Alexandra's Own) (Service No. 29867). He was posted to France on 22nd October 1916, where he received gunshot wounds in the right shoulder on 8th August, 1918. He was eventually posted back to Aldershot, Hampshire, on 13th March, 1919 and was declared unfit for further military service and discharged on 28th March, 1919, suffering from tuberculosis. which had been affected by his military service. He was awarded the Victory and British War Medals plus the Silver War Badge No. B241090. Whilst he was granted a pension for his service he died very shortly after at Prystock Farm, Twyford, Shaftesbury, Dorset, on 28th July 1919 and was buried in St. Mary's Churchyard, Compton Abbas, Shaftesbury, Dorset, on 31st July, 1919. His grave is marked by an official War Graves Commission stone and he is remembered on the Compton Abbas War Memorial Plaque in the Church.
He enlisted On 11th December 1915 at Sturminster Newton but was not embodied until 22 Apr 1916 as a Private and joined 'B' Squadron of 19th Royal Hussars (Queen Alexandra's Own) (Service No. 29867). He was posted to France on 22nd October 1916, where he received gunshot wounds in the right shoulder on 8th August, 1918. He was eventually posted back to Aldershot, Hampshire, on 13th March, 1919 and was declared unfit for further military service and discharged on 28th March, 1919, suffering from tuberculosis. which had been affected by his military service. He was awarded the Victory and British War Medals plus the Silver War Badge No. B241090. Whilst he was granted a pension for his service he died very shortly after at Prystock Farm, Twyford, Shaftesbury, Dorset, on 28th July 1919 and was buried in St. Mary's Churchyard, Compton Abbas, Shaftesbury, Dorset, on 31st July, 1919. His grave is marked by an official War Graves Commission stone and he is remembered on the Compton Abbas War Memorial Plaque in the Church.
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