The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment
Corporal E Browne
Corporal Ernest BROWNE, G/568, 6th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Flanders France, 7th October 1916.
Born Bromley, Kent, son of Frederick George & Emma Browne.
3rd May 1885, Bromley, Kent, baptism of Ernest Browne, son of Frederick George & Emma Browne.
23rd May 1904, St James, Bromley, Kent, married Annie Marina Caroline Gallier, 10 Nichol Lane, Bromley, Kent.
Children - Ernest Frederick Browne, born 8th June 1904, Bromley, Kent; George Albert Browne, born 8th January 1908, Bromley, Kent; Walter Browne, born 7th March 1909, Bromley, Kent; Gladys Daisy Browne, born 5th October 1911, Bromley, Kent; Albert Richard Browne, born 28th May 1913, Bromley, Kent; Dorothy May Browne, born 5th February 1916, Bromley, Kent.
1911 Census - 66 Farwig Lane, Bromley, Kent - Ernest Browne, head, age 26, married, billiard marker, born Bromley, Kent; Annie Browne, wife, age 26, married 7 years, 3 children, all still alive, laundry machinist, born Bromley, Kent; Ernest Brown, son, age 6, born Bromley, Kent; George Browne, son, age 3, born Bromley, Kent; Walter Browne, son, age 2, born Bromley, Kent.
Previously served 2nd Battalion, Volunteers, Royal West Kent Regiment.
Enlisted Bromley, Kent, age 28, height 5ft 7 inches, weight 144lbs. Golf club attendant.
Allotment of pay to wife 6d a week.
Home, 31st August 1914 to 31st May 1915; BEF, 1st June 1915 to 22nd November 1915; Home, 23rd November 1915 to 14th April 1916; BEF, 15th April 1916 to 7th October 1916.
31st August 1914, enlisted; 2nd September 1914, posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment; 3rd September 1914, posted 6th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 16th April 1915, appointed unpaid Lance Corporal; 9th October 1915, appointed paid Lance Corporal; 17th November 1915, gun shot wound right leg; 23rd November 1915 to England & posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment; 25th November 1915 to 5th February 1916, Duchess of Connaught, Canadian Red Cross Hospital, Marlow, Buckinghamshire, compound fracture right tibia; 17th March 1916, posted 3rd Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 15th April 1916, embarked BEF & posted 6th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 6th May 1916, reverts to Private on joining Battalion; 6th May 1916, appointed unpaid Lance Corporal; 3rd July 1916, appointed Acting Corporal; 14th August 1916, promoted Corporal.
30th April 1917, pension of 35/- a week awarded to widow & 6 children.
26th February 1920, Mrs A M C Browne living at 18 Dilliryer? Road, Bell Green, Lower Sydenham, Kent.
Commemorated at Thiepval Memorial, Pier & Face 11C, Somme, France / Bromley War Memorial.
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