Brown Alfred Pte. 4459478
Personnel Entry
Name Brown Alfred
Army number 4459478
Rank Private.
Decorations None known beyond Service Awards.
Date of birth Born 6/6/1919.
Age (At time of death). Not yet known.
Unit Enlisted in The Durham Light Infantry 19/1/1940. Posted to the 10th Battalion DLI. Served in Northern France with the B.E.F. Reported MISSING 20/6/1940, Now known to have been taken Prisoner of War near Arras on 20/5/1940. Capture reported 19/9/1940. Repatriated to the UK May 1945. Relegated to the Class Z Army Reserve 7/9/1946 Div 3/A 33.
Company/Battery Not yet known.
Platoon or other sub-unit Not yet known.
Task or role Not yet ascertained but probably Rifleman.
Joined Brigade 19/1/1940.
Promotions None known.
Wounded Not as far as is known.
Prisoner of War Yes - PoW Number 15316. Held in Camp near Hindenburg 26/7/1940 - 10/2/1943 (Coal mining), Stalag 8B Lamsdorf 20/6/1943 - 16/1/1945, including spells in the Work Camps Sudetenland 27/4/1943 - 5/12/1943 (Marble work) and Gogolin 18/12/1943 - 17/8/1944 (Lime work) and in Stalag IVC Sudetenland 18/3/1945 - 8/5/1945.
Died/Killed in action Date of death not yet known.
Home address Worked as a Fishmonger and lived with his parents Ernest and Ada Brown at 40 Rutland Street, Sunderland at the time of the 1939 General Register then at at 23 Washington Street, Millfield, Sunderland at the time of his repatriation. No trace as yet of a marriage or his death. His MI9 Intelligence Questionnaire was completed on 12/5/1945.
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