Brown Frederick Pte 4455623
Personnel Entry
Name Brown Frederick
Army number 4455623
Rank Pte
Decorations
Date of birth Born County Durham 1911/12.
Age 28
Unit Joined The Durham Light Infantry, no enlistment date given but his Regimental Number implies very early May 1939. Posted ? 6th Battalion DLI. Posted 10th Battalion DLI - probably 1/9/1939. Served with the B.E.F. in France. Posted as Missing, presumed KILLED in ACTION 20/5/40. (Enlistment Book has an entry showing PoW 12/7/40, but this has been deleted - presumably clerical error - however a report stating that he had been reported as being a P.o.W. appeared in the Auckland Chronicle on 1/8/1940 while the 11/7/1940 edition had him as reported missing).
Company/Battery
Platoon or other sub-unit
Task or role
Joined Brigade Probably 1/9/1939.
Promotions
Wounded
Prisoner of War
Died/Killed in action 20-May-40. Buried Plot 8. Row G. Grave 2. BUCQUOY ROAD CEMETERY, Ficheux. Work to be done to investigate initial interment.
Home address Resident of County Durham. Son of Robert and Ellen Brown, husband of Elizabeth Jane Brown, Spennymoor.
Source table 10DLI
A report that Pte Brown had been reported "Missing" appeared in the Auckland Chronicle of 11th July 1940, so it would appear that his remains had, at that point, not been recovered to the point of a formal report to the Protecting Power having been made. Work will be done using the archive materiaj from the original interment to see if an explanation can be derived
